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Freeview Outage Report in Cowes, Isle of Wight, 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 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 02/27/2026 20:10

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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%)

  6. Phone (%)

    Phone (%)

Live Outage Map Near Cowes, Isle of Wight, England

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomVentnor Wi-fi
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomSouthampton TV

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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

    @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 💩

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • karkybee karkybee (@karkybee) reported

    @LeeHurstComic sick to death of turning to ch7 freeview expecting to see some true crime documentary and seeing talk @TalkTV on instead..off it goes..viewer figures so bad they have to infiltrate other channels to boost nos? . cuckoo..I don't even know where to fund talk tv otherwise 🙈

  • DougMcfarlane59 Douglas Mcfarlane (@DougMcfarlane59) reported

    @WilliamNB @tvlicensing We had loads of them letters when we lost our regional TV transmitter and every single person with just Freeview service cancelled their direct debits. It was over a million households for Teesside and little further away. They then targeted OAP's with letters 1/2

  • deeplyclassical The Symphonist (@deeplyclassical) reported

    I see @smithsonian channel which my 88-year-old mum loves, has gone from Freeview and the programmes are now only on paid-for streaming services which her poor eyesight means she can't use. So thanks for that.

  • roy_gill Roy Gill (@roy_gill) reported

    @fitgeek_uk Hard to say. I stream a fair amount of movies, TV and music, but I also use a lot of physical media (and have freeview) so if/when the internet goes down, I wouldn’t be *without* any of those entertainment options, I’d just have less immediate choice.

  • Our_Lev Lev (@Our_Lev) reported

    @rdllopes @TankieHater @NadiaInBC RT had considerable reach. It was freely available on freeview/satellite platforms and also online. It was cut in a blatant act of censorship - what were they scared of? People asking questions? The stupid masses being brainwashed? The freedom-loving 'west' should be horrified.

  • lhsaapso1 Jennifer Johnson (@lhsaapso1) reported

    @virgosam70 Jeremy Kyle was on the Liverpool TV channel causing trouble for Harry I switched off as soon as I heard Kyle putting Harry down, he lost his job on the Jeremy Kyle show for being abusive, now Kyle is being abusive on the Liverpool freeview channel, he too is vile and abhorrent.

  • ASMU_Sendplight The Autistic SEND Mother Uncut (@ASMU_Sendplight) reported

    I am not really “inna” the bystander fair weather friend thing. I have culled an awful lot of that today. You wanna watch you’ll have to pay. This ain’t freeview

  • Mighty_Shipp Stairface Ogre (@Mighty_Shipp) reported

    @Lydiarosesteph you never had to pay for it, even in your situation you can just use itvx for free, the subscription removes ads and have extra content but watching live and love island are available for free. also freeview is free so i don't understand why u wouldn't have it if u have a tv

  • joemaki1986 joemakin (@joemaki1986) reported

    @Techycutie yea we do but now one pays for it i mean i dont anymore just get most of my tv the internet it was like has been said help pay for the terrestial tv so basic free tv but that went freeview meaning they started there own sort of mini sky service that gets bundles with tvs now

  • Topaz_Jules Julie (@Topaz_Jules) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice we seem to have lost our freeview HD channels on all our TVs in PL7, is this a known issue?