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Freeview Outage Report in Smethwick, Sandwell, England

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Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform. It is operated by DTV Services Ltd, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and transmitter operator Arqiva.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Freeview Outage Chart in Smethwick, Sandwell, England 03/10/2026 18:10

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Freeview users through our website.

  1. TV (90%)

    TV (90%)

  2. Total Blackout (6%)

    Total Blackout (6%)

  3. Internet (2%)

    Internet (2%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

  6. Phone (%)

    Phone (%)

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Dudley, Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Halesowen and Oldbury.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomDudley TV
United KingdomBirmingham TV
United KingdomBromsgrove TV
United KingdomBirmingham TV
United KingdomBirmingham TV
United KingdomBirmingham TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:

  • DamienAshton Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported from Birmingham, England

    Looking through the festive TV schedule and there's no Muppet Christmas Carol on any of the freeview channels this year. Never wanted @DisneyPlus to launch more than right now.

  • unit_1974 🐺Wolfish (@unit_1974) reported from Birmingham, England

    @Matey30 @virginmedia Nothing less than I’ve come to expect from them. Service has been so bad which is why we’ve left their tv service. Had to keep the broadband for now due to limitations of other local providers. Now watching freeview…

  • geovilla77 georgie green (@geovilla77) reported from Bromsgrove, England

    You don’t realise how awful freeview is until your waiting for the sky man to come to your house 🥴

  • DamienAshton Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported from Birmingham, England

    Looking through the festive TV schedule and there's no Muppet Christmas Carol on any of the freeview channels this year. Never wanted @DisneyPlus to launch more than right now.

  • genders_jason Jason Genders (@genders_jason) reported from Walsall Wood, England

    @madaboutHolly @Lee_JM75 Who's watching this bad boy on Freeview channel 70 ,Horror, right now😁💩💩💩

  • ellrbrown Elliott Brown (@ellrbrown) reported from Birmingham, England

    @mrgrahamreed @BBCiPlayer I think I only saw season 1 on Sky 3 on Freeview. Never saw the rest of it. The classic '70s Battlestar got shown on BBC 2, in the '90s.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • avsybaby Avreel🧢💋 (@avsybaby) reported

    @NicNic711 @VirginTV National outage. They had a power cut. Knocked out the tv and website. We’ve just got BBC1 and channel 4 🙄. However fortunately we do have Freeview so are watching that at the mo.

  • JCCottingham Jo Cottingham 🇬🇧#BorisIsMyPrimeMinister (@JCCottingham) reported

    @osteogenesis I’m on EE and haven’t had any trouble at all. Got my phone with them too on sim only. In fact it’s been so good I’m going to renew with them when it’s due. I’ve got a freeview box and shared Amazon Prime on a family thing.

  • GeraldineRyan Geraldine Ryan (@GeraldineRyan) reported

    When am I going to get my Freeview back @virginmedia? Been down since 5 p.m. yesterday. CB4.

  • annewitha_e Anne (@annewitha_e) reported

    @AlexMacLeod9 the tv was off, the website was down, the phone was probably being inundated with calls as it was a recorded message then it cut me off! I guess all customers were doing the same. On freeview for now, I'll check later if they're back onstream.

  • SimpkinsRachael rachael simpkins (@SimpkinsRachael) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice I'm in Sheffield and having the same problem with no signal quality and no freeview channels since Tuesday

  • fuzzyfelts2 Viv Phelps 💙 (@fuzzyfelts2) reported

    Oh dear, what has @BBCiPlayer done to itself on the Freeview update? It was bad enough before but now, it’s terrible…….

  • johngunn2 johngunn (@johngunn2) reported

    @CStewart_CS May have had more to do with the National outage that Virgin suffered yesterday rather than just the train WiFi. A number of folk lost all broadband, tv and phone. We were lucky as it was just tv and could revert to freeview if needed. Back last night but not full service.

  • Beren_Camlost Mark J. Yule 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Beren_Camlost) reported

    @cirriustech Ours came back about 6.30PM last night after being off from about 10AM yesterday morning. Wouldn't have been an issue - I might not have known - but I was off and at my mum's. She just has BBC News on all the time. Can't manage the controller to switch to Freeview :(

  • BoyCharioteer Stephen Miller (@BoyCharioteer) reported

    @petertsykes My Virgin bill this month is £92.57. I accept that occasionally there can be technological problems and that they need fixing. I can survive the trauma of having to use Freeview briefly today without whingeing about it on social media.

  • Phil39023953 Floppy Phil- Collared slave of Lady Rochester (@Phil39023953) reported

    @CagedSlaveP I'm watching freeview at the moment, but really annoyed about paying a fair bit of money for a service I'm not getting