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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 11/19/2025 03:40

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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 (6%)

    Total Blackout (6%)

  3. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  4. Internet (1%)

    Internet (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: Sandown, Portsmouth, Gosport, Southampton, Ventnor, Waterlooville and Newport.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomSandown TV
United KingdomPortsmouth TV
United KingdomPortsmouth TV
United KingdomGosport Total Blackout
United KingdomSouthampton TV
United KingdomVentnor Phone

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Cowes, England

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

  • 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

  • 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.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • GeeFHyde G-Man (@GeeFHyde) reported

    @mikeportsmouth We got £40 off very easily by saying we were going to leave, but still too much so will be looking at the options in this thread. But have a good Ariel now so Freeview for us just to decide which broadband to go for. Virgin are awful though. Good luck

  • loulou_wilson Louise Wilson (@loulou_wilson) reported

    @ManchesterTVUK not sure if you are aware, but your Freeview channel 99 is transmitting news about Yorkshire. I have contacted @FreeviewAdvice and they said it’s a broadcast issue with yourselves.

  • JohnLoony John Cartwright (@JohnLoony) reported

    Just watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986) on the Great Movies channel (Freeview 33). Unfortunately and inexplicably they cut out the final scene. #FerrisBueller

  • AlisonK91305178 Alison Kay (@AlisonK91305178) reported

    @bookyblonde @skytv @TalkingPicsTV Me neither, I've got an old sky box and that still gets tptv, definitely not upgrading, if anything goes wrong with my box, I shall be getting a freeview box instead, it's on there, been a customer for over 25 years, definitely can't do without tptv

  • TalkingPicsTV Talking Pictures TV (@TalkingPicsTV) reported

    @mjohndyke Do you use freeview or another service to watch TV? You might need to retune.

  • Shaunaskins121 Shaun askins (@Shaunaskins121) reported

    @itvnews Thank **** for bad reception on freeview won't have to watch this shower of shite

  • SimonTemplarGB Sebastian Tombs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ (@SimonTemplarGB) reported

    @VeryGameGirl @pensionmonkey Yes, never-ending! Classic drama on Freeview etc.

  • Stephen_Neal Stephen Neal (@Stephen_Neal) reported

    @simonhardwick Not sure Freeview update-over-DVB-T updates happen any more do they? The DTG closed that service a while back (it's now IP or USB update only?)

  • FactsStomp Phil's Train and Retro Life (@FactsStomp) reported

    Watching a DVD-R of Quatermass 2 recorded on my DVD recorder way back in 2006 connected via scart to my Freeview box... and it looks, errm 'poor' MPEG2>analogue PAL>MPEG2 recording and watched back on a 55" 2160p screen!

  • Page_888 Matthew H (@Page_888) reported

    @sgordon_the87 @russty_russ The signal was very weak at the time, I bought a DTT set top from Currys just before Freeview launched. ITV2 was on-air from 2.35pm - midnight. Aside from that, little else from them. ITN News Channel unusually aired on the platform from 6am - 9.25am.