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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 12/12/2025 20:50

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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. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  5. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (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, Southampton, Newport, Waterlooville, Portsmouth, Sandown and Gosport.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomSouthampton TV
United KingdomNewport TV
United KingdomWaterlooville TV
United KingdomPortsmouth 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 🙁

  • 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 💩

  • 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....

  • 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

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • SmallCurtains Jen (@SmallCurtains) reported

    Has anyone else's #FREEVIEW signal disappeared?

  • FreeviewAdvice Freeview Advice (@FreeviewAdvice) reported

    @AnneCardwell4 Sorry to hear about the problems receiving Freeview though if you aren't happy with what the broadcasters are putting out, you would get in touch with the broadcaster in question. Fraser

  • oddurbauer Oddur Gunnarsson Bauer (@oddurbauer) reported

    @GoonerWaffle @LauraKirk12 Just a quick pointer from an Icelandic native, you can get the Freeview channels here if you get your internet service through a company called Kapalvæðing.

  • harlequin_1963 Gary Mackenzie (@harlequin_1963) reported

    @Ayrhead2 @jeffsprogress @ColinBrazierTV A TV Licence covers you to: watch or record TV on any channel via any TV service (e.g. Sky, Virgin, Freeview, Freesat) watch live on streaming services (e.g. ITVX, All 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go) use BBC iPlayer*.

  • HeadingtonBard Alex Aris (@HeadingtonBard) reported

    Is anyone having problems with @FreeviewTV at the moment through an aerial? We've only got 53 channels and can't get channels 1-6 either. #television #freeview #tv

  • MaybeeitsMeee 🐝MaybeeMee🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐝🇬🇧🐝 (@MaybeeitsMeee) reported

    @ITV Help!!. I am three quarters of the way through THe Bay when ITV X went back to the home screen. I cant see the end of the episode without watching it all again. I'm on ordinary freeview,but on a pc as we have a bad reception. This happens every time I watch ITV X now.

  • OfficialRUFC Rotherham United (@OfficialRUFC) reported

    FREEVIEW | My main aim is to help the team - Blackett Tyler Blackett sat down with iFollow Millers after penning a deal until the end of the 2022/23 campaign. #rufc | #ForeverTogetherForeverProud

  • stone_cabin Stone Cabin (@stone_cabin) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice Freeview TV reception has been awful in Portsmouth for months. It's getting worse. Please do something about it, your service is a joke.

  • mikechildmusic Mike Child (@mikechildmusic) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice Is there some sort of problem with Freeview in southern England? For weeks now, I’ve had certain channels breaking up and some even going missing completely after retuning. I have both 4G and 5G filters and had no problems at all with transmission until recently.

  • Gpearce555 Greg (@Gpearce555) reported

    Absolutely stupid that Amazon has made watching Parcs and Recreation now almost unbearable to watch because even though you still have prime you still have to watch it through their Freeview service so there's no way to get rid of the ads...