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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E-mailProblems 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.
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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 (7%)
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Phone (1%)
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Internet (1%)
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Wi-fi (1%)
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E-mail (1%)
Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England
The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Dudley, Birmingham, Bromsgrove and Kingswinford.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
|---|---|---|
 Dudley |
TV | |
| Birmingham |
TV | |
| Birmingham |
TV | |
| Bromsgrove |
Total Blackout | |
| Kingswinford |
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.
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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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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 🥴
Freeview Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Tapper82
(@tapper82) reported
@pvfc_carol Hi can you help out pleas. Since the BBC are now broadcasting the PVFC games over Freeview I can no longer injoi the Vale games. I am blind and use my radio to know what's going on when in the ground.
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mark Hughes
(@Mark56623345) reported
@StevenNT @a516digital Just got it confirmed by my neighbour, he was told way back in February, hes still fuming mad about it, because he was canvassed away from sky by some **** who knew nothing about the freeview problems we have.
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OldStravonian
(@B_W_Marshall) reported
@SirPyecroft I’ve stopped watching Ch4 for the most part. Caught that Gogglebox snippet on one of the freeview channels so it’s likely months old. ‘Entertainment’ is a closed shop these days. Probably always has been to some extent, but the standard of the shows is absolute garbage.
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Maurice Affleck 😎
(@mauricedaman) reported
@ellapeaches1984 Just moved into a new house, no internet connection, so only have freeview. Does anyone realise just how bad it is?
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Ian berry
(@Ianberr94603191) reported
I'm fed up,my Freeview box is broken,so now I can't watch any TV,anyone who live in tile hill Coventry area I a spare Freeview box with remote control I could lend till September 2 thanks
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Mike (ex-a516digital)
(@a516digital) reported
@belperite Hi. Good question. The satellite feed is broadcast in DVB-S. It has to be converted into a DVB-T multiplex using a modulator so that Freeview devices can receive it. The solution for ITV/C4 and C5 means they can use a similar system to that used in hotels and ships, no encoder.
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OldStravonian
(@B_W_Marshall) reported
@andylondon Think it’s Sky. Dunno. They have loads of freeview channels with guff on a loop. Most of it sucks.
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Mick Ashworth
(@ashworth_mick) reported
@Space_FL @nikkinoelle7 Good,I haven’t got Showtime, I’m in the UK and it’s an American channel or service so we don’t get showtime over here, it could be on Sky, our main satellite broadcaster, I’ve got 80 plus Freeview digital channels and Netflix and Amazon Prime, I’ve got a smart Tv so got YouTube👍
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Steven Jones
(@StevenNT) reported
@Mark56623345 @a516digital I'm currently a Sky Q customer as it's what I have at my new build apartment, Freeview and Freesat don't quite fit my uses but for as a basic level it's not too bad and fall back to Freeview when very severe rain hiders reception
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Gary Hayward
(@garyhaywardcom) reported
Can't wait for my new TV roof aerial to arrive. Nothing to do with the #Bilsdale outage; never been able to get all the Freeview channels with my current, ancient one. #BilsdaleFire