Freeview

Freeview Outage Report in Deal, Kent, England

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: tv and total blackout.

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 Deal, England

The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Deal and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Freeview Outage Chart in Deal, Kent, England 03/28/2026 17:25

March 28: Problems at Freeview

Freeview is having issues since 08:40 PM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (90%)

    TV (90%)

  2. Total Blackout (6%)

    Total Blackout (6%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

  6. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Deal, Kent, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Herne Bay, Margate, Folkestone and Deal.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomHerne Bay Total Blackout
United KingdomMargate TV
United KingdomFolkestone TV
United KingdomFolkestone TV
United KingdomDeal TV
United KingdomHerne Bay TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Deal, England

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

  • margatesunsets Fiona K. (@margatesunsets) reported from Margate, England

    @dancludlow Never thought of it even. Not that worried, there'll be a solution. It supposedly has Freesat & Freeview on it. Will have to try to get D's son out here, if he ever stays still, he'll know! TV is 2020 model, hardly top of the range but good enough for me.

  • AbiSale1 Abi Sale (@AbiSale1) reported from Dover, England

    @LightsOutF1Blog @SkySportsF1 @SkyHelpTeam Would also be interested to se if you can get it for £10 through a different service eg virgin/freeview

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • den66621408 den (@den66621408) reported

    @GBNEWS GBN On freeview keeps freezing is anyone else having problems. Talk TV and all other channels working fine.

  • dannyboy7796 Daniel Jones (@dannyboy7796) reported

    @Wolf30331 @ItCorbyn @darrengrimes_ OK, so they're truly as bad as I've heard? Wow, I genuinely thought that would be against the rules on freeview broadcast media. Remember they banned RT, although that was down to sanctions to be fair. Good to know I was right to avoid them.

  • highwaylass Highwaylass 🌻 (@highwaylass) reported

    I’ve had to retreat from Freeview telly. The adverts are winding me up too much. Black November? **** off. It’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, IF YOU ARE IN THE USA. Adverts encouraging massive spending on Christmas? Stop guilting people. And adverts for funerals 😳

  • Ike_Laudius Ike_Laudius (@Ike_Laudius) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice Good evening, it now appears that ITV 3 and 4, More 4 and Film 4 are not recording subtitles. BBC, ITV are fine. All subtitles work on TV, it is just the Freeview Recorder that has the issue. Regards.

  • EllaMarie_94 E l l a 💙 (@EllaMarie_94) reported

    @ChannelboxTV @FreeviewTV Hello, do you know how my nan can get your channel. She's got a smart tv and freeview but its not there. Don't know what to do. Any help pls?

  • mickey_omeara Mickey O'Meara (@mickey_omeara) reported

    @robin_parkes oh yeah I bet that was annoying, we've never had that problem here on all the tvs and boxes you get to pick what channels go at which numbers. Before ITV HD was at 3 it had adverts for kent and the wrong local news which is why they couldn't put it at 3. Still happens on Freeview

  • Ike_Laudius Ike_Laudius (@Ike_Laudius) reported

    @FreeviewTV Help, please! Subtitles are not recording on my Freeview recorder for ITV3 and 4. All others seem okay, so my machine settings are okay.

  • ahappystitcher Sally-Jane 💙💛🌻 (@ahappystitcher) reported

    @aj2squared @MattCainWriter We're fully Firesticked. Our lounge tv no longer has a working Internal freeview box inside it, so that's solely Firesticked but I do miss the tv guide. The others are both freeview/Firestick or would be if the signal is there. I think the roof aerial/connections must be faulty.

  • MT_Kilpatrick Michael Kilpatrick (@MT_Kilpatrick) reported

    Old Panasonic Freeview PVR no good for new ITV player and it had fault:, watch catch-up progs and it would occasionally freeze for 0.5secs. Bought a new Manhattan and it's just as crap - goes slow-mo for 2secs at random times. Why is everything such junk? @FreeviewTV

  • ETusty Emma T (@ETusty) reported

    Yet again poor (well no) freeview signal. Seems that yet again much of the south east is suffering from blackouts this evening. OH's annoyed because he's missing the SAS BBC show, although I did point out he could go onto BBC iplayer which should work.