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.
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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.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Freeview users through our website.
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TV (90%)
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Total Blackout (6%)
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Internet (1%)
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Phone (1%)
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E-mail (1%)
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Wi-fi (1%)
Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England
The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Redditch, Dudley, Bromsgrove and Kingswinford.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Birmingham |
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| Wolverhampton |
TV | |
| Birmingham |
TV | |
| Birmingham |
TV | |
| Redditch |
TV | |
| Birmingham |
TV |
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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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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.
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🐺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…
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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:
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N B P
(@Nick2169Bruce) reported
@daraobriain £160.44 a year just so I can watch freeview channels because I will not waste my time with crap on BBC CHANNELS only ghosts is worth watching.
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Vince
(@VModifiedMind) reported
@iandeeley @peterson_joey @reckless Freeview is awful yes, as is DAB.
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Irrefutably Wright
(@kingswing72) reported
@SpergenFlergen @bbcpress BBC pays to maintain the Freeview network as part of the licence fee.
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stuart gardner
(@gardner_sd) reported
@VirtuaMcPolygon @byford_ian @DavidLammy Doesn’t part of the license fee go towards maintaining the transmission network for freeview?
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AIMEE
(@MamieTea) reported
@SLUG_MrIBlack and as public money went into it, the code was shared with ITV, Ch4, Ch5. It innovates with loads of tech which it shares. It has public services like language transmissions and there was a section to help people switch to Freeview. What the plan about removing its funding?
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Purple
(@Purple43213287) reported
@andrew_wauchope @guardian So you don't think disability programming is a vital service? What about the freeview network?
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Shay Corrigan
(@shaycorri) reported
@SpergenFlergen @bbcpress Doesn’t the license fee go towards maintaining the Freeview signal stream? So 5 of the things you mention there indirectly benefit from license fee payments as they couldn’t be broadcast without the digital signal.
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Douglas Mcfarlane
(@dougmcfarlane41) reported
@PCarmichaelVO @NadineDorries In Teesside August 10th 2021 we lost our only Freeview transmitter to a fire. 1 million homes lost its Freeview. Only last week have people got a patchy service back, just BBC some areas have still no signal. 4 months no FreeviewTv. Tell me BBC r doing a good job maintaining mast
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Gary #JohnsonOut
(@Gary1609) reported
@Eyeswideopen69 @carol_casey1 @caporicci_r Should that not be a choice though? You are talking about forcing everyone to have a TV License even if they do not watch BBC but watch other freeview channels. Its like saying sky has the best of movies so you must pay even if you do not use the service.
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James DeRoest
(@JamesDeroest) reported
@kipthebee @georgegalloway @MoatsTV What's a person to do? You'll be down to 100 odd channels. Analogue tv finished in the UK 10 years ago, it's been Freeview since.