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Freeview outages and service status in Smethwick, England

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  • Freeview generated 0 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Smethwick, including 0 direct reports.
  • The most common problems reported in this area mention TV, Total Blackout, and Wi-fi.
  • The most recent signal from this area was received Jun 6, 2:38 PM GMT+1.
  • 44% TV (44%)
  • 22% Total Blackout (22%)
  • 22% Wi-fi (22%)
  • 11% Internet (11%)

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

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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.

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Walsall Total Blackout 2 days ago
Birmingham TV 3 days ago
Sutton Coldfield Total Blackout 4 days ago
Wolverhampton Wi-fi 10 days ago
Birmingham TV 15 days ago
Tamworth TV 16 days ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

Walsall

1 recent signals

2 days ago
Birmingham

1 recent signals

3 days ago
Sutton Coldfield

1 recent signals

4 days ago

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

  • grumpyoldstan
    Grumpy Stan.🎼 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 📻 (@grumpyoldstan) reported 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!

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • TomPoole007
    Tom Poole (@TomPoole007) reported 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.

  • xemilywalker
    emily (@xemilywalker) reported 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

  • 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.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • PopeyeFreeview
    Popeye (@PopeyeFreeview) reported

    @krstnbrws More likely TV Warehouse will closedown because it's affiliated shopping channel meaning it's sponsored by different companies and not real shopping channel. Plus the change over to Your TV . TV Warehouse never went nationwide on Freeview i wonder why not?

  • getgoodalex
    GetGoodAlex (@getgoodalex) reported

    @Hack73 @Dan__CAFC @crewealexfc Only chance of him getting sacked is if he comes out in support of the match being on Freeview.

  • GillRaeWalker
    Gillian Jamieson (@GillRaeWalker) reported

    Support @silvervoicesuk! "17 million people watch Freeview each week & 9 million rely solely on broadcast TV, more than half of whom are aged over 65. It would be cruel & irresponsible to force the most vulnerable households in the country to require an expensive broadband contract in order to continue watching TV." I agree. This group does great work! They also campaign to keep our fully reliable copper landlines, which will work in any electrical or internet outage unlike any other option.

  • lightchilduk
    lightchild (@lightchilduk) reported

    @bluealoud I've never had Sky, had Freeview for a little while.

  • gsg2590
    GSG2590 (@gsg2590) reported

    @JoshCF_ They're a joke now, two years ago the deal was £45 with basic freeview and Sky Q and now it's £63. They've also ended customer support on here and UK based customer calls. The app regularly messes up now, doesn't recognise you've paid and you end up getting charged again 😑

  • IronWorks1990
    IronWorks1990 (@IronWorks1990) reported

    @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.

  • CinOvation
    CinOvation 📽 (@CinOvation) reported

    @roland26750 @silverfoxdude @FunMovieTVFan It's on Peacock in the U.S. and on Netflix in several international territories. It was originally available on the Audience Network (formerly Freeview) before the service shut down in May, 2020.

  • MichaelMair649
    Michael (@MichaelMair649) reported

    The stupid studio reality TV programs in New Zealand freeview they are so dumb like a crystal ball

  • tceesanfran
    Tony Carrick (@tceesanfran) reported

    @jamosameo @cordbusters I agree the interface is awful for recording It's as if they only added the Freeview recording facility at the last moment in development... Was looking forward to this device for months but returned mine to Richer Sounds within the returns period

  • bjornfri2020
    Björn Fri (@bjornfri2020) reported

    @LeeHurstComic Me. They’re probably just all on a different streaming service, but no way am I signing up for another one, just for one show. Pretty sure it’ll be a lame as The Walking Dead from season 7 onwards. 11 is too many; the energy is gone. I’ll wait till the whole lot is on Freeview.