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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 02/23/2026 16:40

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (91%)

    TV (91%)

  2. Total Blackout (5%)

    Total Blackout (5%)

  3. Internet (2%)

    Internet (2%)

  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: Bromsgrove, Birmingham, Halesowen, Oldbury, Dudley, Solihull and Smethwick.

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

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

  • 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.

  • 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 🥴

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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😁💩💩💩

  • 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:

  • Dr_Jon John Michael Leslie (@Dr_Jon) reported

    @Theking06810787 @CountBinface I don't get this, it's never gone away on Freeview, just press the Text button on your TV's remote while on BBC1, BBC2 or BBCNews and you're good to go: Page ideas: 101 = News headlines 302 = Football Headlines 360 = F1 Headlines 400 = Weather

  • Owramgirl Allison Mitchell (@Owramgirl) reported

    @FreeviewTV having major issues with freeview. BBC 1, BBC 2 and most of the channels. I’ve had freeview for years but in the last couple of years the signal is now bad and can’t watch the tv. What is going on!

  • lukehar04175810 luke harding (@lukehar04175810) reported

    @ryleydavison I had a sky box but no subscription, was just fancy freeview. Used to go down and still the card when my parents fell asleep

  • allypabdn AllyP (@allypabdn) reported

    @UladhGael @ClarNiUigin Here, it's channel 9 on Freeview but 115 on Sky. BBC Scotland. That's probably no help whatsoever though.

  • cash4questions2 Mingymoo (@cash4questions2) reported

    @ukJ0N @snicklin1 @GBNEWS I read late June a while ago. The test signal is up....Channel 236 on Freeview.

  • horror_channel @horror_channel (@horror_channel) reported

    @DorsetGirl1 Horror Bites, our on demand catch-up service available on Freesat, YouView and Freeview Play

  • robotmaths RobotMaths (@robotmaths) reported

    @Paul_Monk One of the Freeview channels is showing episodes weekly. It's SO SLOW. If we find bingeing them on DVD tedious, what it must have been like for the non-streaming crowd.

  • elspirito_ FPL MO (@elspirito_) reported

    @ryleydavison Never had a box. Just freeview lol

  • Ian_Coy1972 Ian72 (@Ian_Coy1972) reported

    @colinphoenix No problem Colin. Channel 96 on freeview I think. They show them in a morning around 10am 👍

  • mrssheardy Sarah Sheard (@mrssheardy) reported

    @plusnethelp the remote I have for the freeview plus box doesn’t work even after changing batteries, are you able to help with this please?