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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 02/02/2026 06:20

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (92%)

    TV (92%)

  2. Total Blackout (4%)

    Total Blackout (4%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

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Live Outage Map Near Cowes, Isle of Wight, England

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

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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 🙁

  • 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

    @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:

  • manps_singh Manpreet Singh (@manps_singh) reported

    Chisora Fury robbed the public, that should have been freeview. Who would pay PPV for this terrible fight

  • judge_sweeny JudgeSweeny (@judge_sweeny) reported

    @BBCSport Another unwatchable world cup match due to your AWFUL grasp of surround sound. Commentators volume so low in the Freeview 5.1 mix it makes watching it unbearable.100 years of the BBC and this is how far you've come eh? I'd watch it in 4k if the sound wasn't worse there!

  • canispeaktodave canispeaktodave (@canispeaktodave) reported

    The bitrate of ITV4 on Freeview is so bad the feed must be being streamed from a 56k modem.

  • FreeviewAdvice Freeview Advice (@FreeviewAdvice) reported

    @theprivateroryg Hi, I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with your Freeview Reception. So, we can investigate this for you, can you please DM us your postcode and house name or number? Thanks, Dylan

  • sibur_67 SiBur 🇺🇦 (@sibur_67) reported

    @betangel I'd watch it but only have Freeview and ITV4 is SD only - crap

  • PhilipOFlaherty Phil OFlaherty (@PhilipOFlaherty) reported

    This season of The Crown was so ****. Why was there a whole episode about the queen getting freeview pls

  • KateADale 🏳️‍🌈 Kate A Dale Archivist🤍 (@KateADale) reported

    @CLC_1000 @NOWMusic Because things are never on Freeview, my theory is they are trying to faze it out and trying to get everyone to switch to Sky and Virgin and stuff to get extra money

  • trisbayliff Tris Bayliff (@trisbayliff) reported

    @Independent I swore off sky a few years ago and switched to a Freeview recording box plus the usual apps and I've never regretted it.

  • lordcapel Huw Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@lordcapel) reported

    @pearcy29_ If you have Freeview go to channel 601 and Radio 5 live is the commentary, no stupid Jenas to ruin the match.

  • FreeviewAdvice Freeview Advice (@FreeviewAdvice) reported

    @johnmacdonald22 Hi, I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with your Freeview Reception. So, we can investigate this for you, can you please DM us your postcode and house name or number? Thanks, Dylan