Freeview outages and service status in Smethwick, England

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, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Walsall, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, West Bromwich, Tipton, Kidderminster, and Wednesbury.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Walsall	Total Blackout	1 day ago
Birmingham	TV	2 days ago
Sutton Coldfield	Total Blackout	3 days ago
Wolverhampton	Wi-fi	10 days ago
Birmingham	TV	15 days ago
Tamworth	TV	15 days ago

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

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  Tom Poole (@TomPoole007) reported 16 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virtualash tell your boys your TV quality is poor on Freeview. Whale's head will not look fuzzy. This can't be allowed to happen.

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  georgie green (@geovilla77) reported 19 minutes ago from Bromsgrove, England

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

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  Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported 21 minutes ago 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.

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  Grumpy Stan.🎼 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 📻 (@grumpyoldstan) reported 25 minutes ago from Tamworth District, England

  @itvnews I complained about that awful erectile disfunction advert that appears on some Freeview channels, sometimes in the day & at teatimes, when kids will be watching & they didn't do anything! They said it was fine. It's not nice when young grandkids ask what erectile disfunction is!

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  Jason Genders (@genders_jason) reported 32 minutes ago from Walsall Wood, England

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

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  emily (@xemilywalker) reported 32 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  The worrrrrst thing is, I’ve never had a telly in my room, never wanted one but that means tomorrow my mom and dad will be watching something awful in the back living room so ill be in the front living room with just freeview channels hahahaha **** off

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  🐺Wolfish (@unit_1974) reported 38 minutes ago 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…

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  Elliott Brown (@ellrbrown) reported 47 minutes ago 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.

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  Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported 51 minutes ago 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.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Disabled Rebel (@DisabledRebel) reported 1 minute ago

  @LeeVicarage @NewsMurray Yep from 2029 I think no more sky dish you can’t even order sky q now as a new customer it’s all gonna be sky stream , so if I can’t record anything anyway I’ll stick with Netflix and freeview

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  Travel/Food Quizzes (@mythslegendsQ) reported 2 minutes ago

  @therosebudpod @GylesB1 Whistle Down The Wind, a charming film with Hayley as a child actress who discovers 'Jesus', is actually on TV tonight. (Talking Picture, Channel 82 Freeview)

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  Scott (@_fod0) reported 6 minutes ago

  @HLTCO It's been **** for years. The last time I properly watched it was when Ray Stubbs was still in charge and we had Score on the Red Button. When Sky Sports News went free on Freeview, I watched Soccer Saturday instead.

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  Popeye (@PopeyeFreeview) reported 7 minutes ago

  Freeview channel 97 Hobbycraft TV What's happened to red button service?

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  LDH Marketing (@LDHMarketing) reported 11 minutes ago

  @BENEFITS_NEWS It also eats up a lot of your broadband. No problem if you're on an unlimited package, but for people on cheaper, restricted usage packages, that will cost. Freely is good where reception is poor, but Freeview is still needed.

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  IronWorks1990 (@IronWorks1990) reported 14 minutes ago

  @dskiuk2 @Danrocsky76 @cordbusters I went Paris last year and our tv where we stayed was through through aerial, 50 odd channels and every single one of the was HD. Freeview now is terrible in 2026, full of shovelware channels and hardly any HD channels, SD channels look awful as well.

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  Bigwows 💚🤍💜 ✖️✖️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@bigwows) reported 14 minutes ago

  @cmairsy @virginmedia Zen for internet - rock solid and great customer service, not that you’ll need it. But after ditching Virgin we went down the freeview route, I’m afraid.

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  Breaking News (@MattMoore2025) reported 18 minutes ago

  @MetroUK Close down loads of channels that isn't important and keep the ones going why have we got loads of pointless channels on freeview Freesat Virgin and sky

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  Stephen (@stevebrown491) reported 20 minutes ago

  @BBCStokeSport @GMcGarrySport @ThePeterMorse Listening to P&G and the bloke says that no Crewe fans have phoned in! No **** Sherlock, why should we phone in when you can’t be bothered to put us on the RADIO - just in case you don’t understand, Freeview is not available to most people who are not at home! Only 2 teams played

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  Random Noob (TeK✨) (@RandomNoobYT) reported 23 minutes ago

  @KarenGr58411658 @DailyMail All paid for with the licence fee, the government does not fund TV transmission infrastructure, this is controlled and operated by the BBC. No BBC, No transmission network, no Freeview. This is why you have to pay the licence for all live TV.