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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 02/20/2026 15:45

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (92%)

    TV (92%)

  2. Total Blackout (5%)

    Total Blackout (5%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

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Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England

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

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

  • 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😁💩💩💩

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • ThatsTVOfficial That's TV (@ThatsTVOfficial) reported

    @Michael11923873 Yes, some areas of the UK including Humber will be able to receive both our local service (on channel 7 or 8) and our national services (on channel 65 and 91) on Freeview from tomorrow. These are all SD services. Pass on the message: Retune 30 June!

  • SequentialX Matt (@SequentialX) reported

    So BBC News HD is no longer on Freeview. Pretty much the only channel I actually watch live. This sucks.

  • FastRSolutions FastR Solutions Ltd (@FastRSolutions) reported

    @4CAnalytics @The_Expert_Eye Oh yes remember that. We gave up on Lost when it went to Sky, as we only had Freeview back then & I heard the ending was poor. It had lost its way before then. I quite liked watching Manifest aside from her eyebrows, need to catch up on that, as it's now on Netflix

  • andyAVAVsystems Andy AVAV Systems (@andyAVAVsystems) reported

    BBC4 HD & CBeebies are now live on the HD Mux PSB3. Just tuned in a TV & there they are. First time available on Freeview HD here, down South All Transmitters, inc Relays, should now be rolling it out

  • talk_show_ghost frumaldeigh (@talk_show_ghost) reported

    if someone starts talking to me about shows from nickelodeon or cartoon network I’m logging out mentally I don’t know **** man I grew up on freeview tv if it’s about mona the vampire and ******, grizzly tales then sign me ******** up

  • MagicSky_UK Nick Francis (@MagicSky_UK) reported

    @bbcnews @freeview dont watch BBC News in morning as its just a copy of the breakfast chat show on BBC One. Now you take BBC News HD off freeview, so won't be watching it at all! Just like I never watch BBC local news. #bbcnews #freeview

  • ukdtt UK Terrestrial TV (@ukdtt) reported

    Channel 106, BBC FOUR HD, has been added to PSB3 (England) (was unlisted [Service 0x4680]) #Freeview

  • Mark56623345 mark Hughes (@Mark56623345) reported

    @MediaBoyUK @fvtimeshares Quest red +1 has listing on 4 different tvs all showing no programmes after 1am, so no wonder its confusing. But thats tv have put futher details up on a black slate confirming the hours. Lots of issues between nieghbours tonight, especially where i live as freeview very poor.

  • tutankjon 🦊😠🤬😈 (@tutankjon) reported

    @FreeviewTV Freeview closing Forces TV..... Absolute joke... Left now with poor quality channels... #freeviewsucks

  • A1an_M Alan (@A1an_M) reported

    @GBNEWS Don't watch Freeview any more. That would involve paying for a TV licence which would mean the BBC receiving money from me and that's not going to happen. It would also suggest I tacitly support the mainstream media which I don't; its news coverage is a tissue of lies.