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 (91%)
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Total Blackout (5%)
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Internet (1%)
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E-mail (1%)
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Wi-fi (1%)
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Phone (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.
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| Redditch |
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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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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.
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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😁💩💩💩
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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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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 🥴
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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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Jerry C Alderson
(@jerryalderson) reported
@back_the_BBC #Subscription for TV channels cannot currently be achieved on Freeview because it doesn't support encryption with identity-based decryption. This is the principal reason why government reluctantly accepts #BBC TV services must remain fully open until at least 2027.
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Clint East woodwood woodwood.
(@ClintEastwoodw2) reported
@DefundBBC For me it simply comes down to not being allowed to watch other channels without a t.v licence, these other channels do not benefit from the t.v licence, why can't I legally watch them? If it was legal there would be a Freeview box out tomorrow that would have BBC restricted.
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Darren Crimes
(@darrenscrimes) reported
@Porrohman @ClaireJHartnell @jamiebglover And if you genuinely don't use the freeview TV service, never see any BBC content etc etc, then you don't have to pay. Idiot.
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Gus
(@Gus_preston) reported
@BillboBilleric1 @alr6872 @mrdanwalker You consume nothing at all that is funded from the BBC? Never watch or listen to them Never use their websites Never use broadband Don't use Freeview or Freesat. But even if true, yes I do, as a society we all have to fund things we don't use directly.
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Andrew McKinley
(@aw_mckinley) reported
Sick of morons saying "I only use 3 BBC services, licence fee is not good value". But: you can only use one service at a time-your argument is invalid. If you use ONE service, you justify the license fee. Freeview is one such service. DAB is another. Even for non-BBC content.
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Catherine
(@MrsNettles118) reported
@PaulAllenSK1 @BettinaSRoss1 @jackalsbynight Even if you never watch the BBC you still benefit from its existence. As long it supplies services for free, subscriptions to others have to be kept affordable. Innovation & training are also important. How do you think Freeview came about? Certainly not from commercial companies
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xiaotingia
(@Xiaotingia) reported
@pauljamestailor @Av8trix1 @bbcpress Never check the news headlines online? Never listen to local radio stations in the car for traffic reports? Never listen to R1 & 2? Never use Freeview, hosted by the Beeb, or watch their classy repeats on Dave, etc? Never used iPlayer? Yeah, right...
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BillboBillericay
(@BillboBilleric1) reported
@JuliaHB1 The BBC is not a public service and therefore should not be funded through a form of taxation. 80 plus channels available on Freeview that are not funded by the taxpayer, but I am not allowed to watch them unless I pay the BBC tax.
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Michael Lewis
(@lewismj_waioeka) reported
@EdwardJDavey @Aiannucci If the BBC is great, it will have no trouble getting subscribers, what are you afraid of? Why force say pensioners or the poor to pay a regressive tax? They may be happy with FreeView, why should they be forced into paying for the BBC if they don't want it?
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Long Scarf Publications - Charity books r us!
(@Chris_Stone1970) reported
@cal_on_demand @kkbigk @OwenJones84 A marginal market at most. What about educational TV? Minority output like Welsh language programmes? Who would finance the freeview transmitters maintenance? Local news? Non-commerical radio? BBC website? World Service?