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Freeview Outage Report in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England

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The latest reports from users having issues in Cowes come from postal codes PO31.

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 Cowes, England

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

Freeview Outage Chart in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England 04/18/2025 19:35

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (89%)

    TV (89%)

  2. Total Blackout (8%)

    Total Blackout (8%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

  5. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  6. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Cowes, Isle of Wight, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Ventnor, Cowes, Fareham, Portsmouth, Ryde and Southampton.

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Cowes, England

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

  • RoboJ1M RoboJ1M (@RoboJ1M) reported from Portsmouth, England

    @Sonic_Sinclair @bbcmicrobot Technically it is, there's support for it in DVB. There's several channels on DVB satellite that uses it, not sure there's any on freeview. Certainly all the original services shutdown or moved to MHEG. The BBC mheg service was incredible but that's shutdown now too 🙁

  • MatthewKing35 Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England

    @topfotogmw @jessphillips Nice try buddy I work part time do Voluteee work as well do college and go meetings so don’t see ever-time never hard hard drive records like virgin v 6 sky q Freeview + Freesat + or bbc I player

  • MatthewKing35 Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England

    @derwenttwo @MylesJohndmyles @GBNEWS Argee with totally. On matey question I flack through channels via virgin media no problem on any channel including the awful gb news however on Freeview all channels good Quality except the awful gb news which the worst of the lot a bit like the content I dot know about sky fst

  • YDraigGoch10 Andy Morgan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@YDraigGoch10) reported from Southampton, England

    @cefinroberts I've seen better garbage on Freeview channels, like Dave....

  • Bermudgirl Marilyn McCubbin (@Bermudgirl) reported from Netley, England

    @FreeviewAdvice Can you help me please. I am now relying on Freeview. My tv has HD but Freeview isn’t. How do I get my Freeview into HD. It’s not a pleasure to watch. Thank you.

  • chris_sucksmith Chris (@chris_sucksmith) reported from East Cowes, England

    One bad thing about #Freeview TV is all the begging adverts. Ignore em all, ain't contributing towards inflated staff salaries. Plenty of local little charities.

  • MatthewKing35 Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England

    @jonny_b_badde @Nigel_Farage Don’t need to I haven’t watch @GBNEWS since it started I could ether watch on Freeview 236 or virgin 626 but done nether except I watch 50 seconds 25 on Freeview picture and sound was crap 💩 and virgin picture and sounds was very good but channel is bollocks all time crap 💩

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • RebeccaLouWard Rebecca Louise Ward (@RebeccaLouWard) reported

    @SpookyMomTina I favour all of those! I was watching Hellraiser 2 last night on Horror Freeview! it was damn cool!

  • usher_anne Anne Usher (@usher_anne) reported

    If your elderly and not good with technology or have poor eyesight.....FORGET IT. Go to FREEVIEW.......IT DOES’NT COST A FORTUNE a month, it’s EASY to use. SKY are pushing SKY Q because it suits THEIR PURPOSE....the CUSTOMER does not count....all they want is YOUR MONEY

  • inxplosion Hannah 🍉 (@inxplosion) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice freeview has been bad all day. Only 28 channels found on retune. Distorted/broken up picture. Is there a signal/transmitter problem in the Newmarket, Suffolk area? It’s really annoying!

  • cliquetrack Stirling Silliphant (@cliquetrack) reported

    Lockdown has meant that I’m regularly watching BBC / ITV for the first time in 15 years. Not as bad as I’d feared, though itv overdoes the game shows a bit. The tv is the only company I have during the day. Freeview is really useful.

  • dantejackal Dantejackal (@dantejackal) reported

    @xRedFlare It is y it goes Freeview SD later after the 3 month timeframe :) I don't wanna alienate those who support:)

  • PCopeland1998 Paul Copeland (@PCopeland1998) reported

    @JCTJennings @virginmedia We have the same problem right now. We have not internet and no tv channels. We've had to use the TVs freeview.

  • MayLouis Amy Lou (@MayLouis) reported

    @ChannelboxTV hello i need some help when i go to choose Now 70s and Now 90s on my channel box on freeview it is coming up as sorry there is currently a technical problem connecting to this channel please try again later and i am connected to the internet.

  • ETusty Emma T (@ETusty) reported

    @catladyrambles I feel your pain. Mine bought the family a new tv for Christmas. Eh?! Old one worked fine although he moaned about the signal - that's more about freeview than the tv. Now we have a ridiculously huge internet one (my 2nd firestick I bought for the backroom I bought a wk before

  • SwipeSolutions_ Swipe Solutions (@SwipeSolutions_) reported

    @BodegaaCat If willing to pay I can sort you out for a good price. All EFL, EPL, FA Cup, etc. on the service. International channels. Freeview. Other sports much more. Give us a message with any questions you may have

  • nglwaug nigel waugh💙 (@nglwaug) reported

    @bt_uk Having problems with BBC channels on my BT Freeview. Tried retuning today and have now lost all bbc channels except HD. It seems virtually impossible to contact BT to ask for help, so I thought I would try this way!