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 (92%)
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Total Blackout (4%)
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Internet (1%)
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Wi-fi (1%)
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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.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Birmingham |
TV | |
| Birmingham |
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| Birmingham |
TV | |
| Halesowen |
TV | |
| Oldbury |
TV | |
| Dudley |
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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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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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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🐺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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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
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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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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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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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Chas Portch
(@chasportch) reported
@FhilipGreen @notwillyoung86 @krishgm So there isn't 4k output via terrestrial television in the UK. Raise that with Freeview. Which is a private company, by the way. I'm looking forward to you moaning about ITV having the same problem? Sky output in 4k is minimal also.
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Mike Benjamin
(@brundellfilimou) reported
@talkRADIO The ignorance surrounding the model for the bbc is astounding. The biggest issue people have seems to be with bbc news. There is no news stations in the uk that are subscription only, even sky news is on freeview. In addition it is not technically possible for radio stations
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Chris Bardell
(@chrisbardell) reported
@Turnip_Of_Doom @JoshHarris91 @davidschneider Yep, ITV/C4/C5 will never be able to pay for the entire running cost of Freeview. So it’ll close and they’ll go subscription-only.
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EduGro.Club
(@gro_edu) reported
@COYR26 @DeborahMeaden because without the BBC you wouldn't be able to watch the other free to air channels. The BBC run the whole Freeview service they depend on.
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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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Martin F
(@martin_frasehog) reported
@RedemptionBroon @KrisGriffiths @JuliaHB1 It's currently 43p a day, which includes the cost of maintaining the Freeview transmission network, BBC TV, radio, iPlayer, etc. I have no interest in paying for Sky or similar. If that was £2 a day, it would still be a bargain. About the same as a high of street coffee.
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Emma
(@Ems1965) reported
@Ian_gm_F @bbcpress You conveniently forgot to mention the radio stations, world service, website with free access to a whole range of educational resources for children, funding and upkeep of freeview infrastructure
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Chris Bardell
(@chrisbardell) reported
@JoshHarris91 @davidschneider Explain how subscription service will work with Freeview.
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Brekkie
(@Brekkietweets) reported
@ledredman @jeremybear123 @JolyonMaugham There is a false narrative that Freeview can be phased out. Anyone who has watched anything live on Amazon or ITV Hub can tell you internet broadcasting is not up to scratch. Selling spectrum so people can watch shows on phones at expense of watching in HD on TV is just stupid.
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Paul Carmichael
(@PCarmichaelVO) reported
@d0hertyry4n @wilsonfromnorth @NadineDorries What’s that got to do with educational resources every school/college use, maintaining Freeview transmitters so the elderly/poor have access to TV, having programming that is made for the disabled community? These things aren’t made by anyone else because they’re not profitable.