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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 03/15/2026 05:00

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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 (2%)

    Internet (2%)

  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: Portsmouth, Southampton and Ventnor.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomPortsmouth TV
United KingdomSouthampton TV
United KingdomSouthampton TV
United KingdomSouthampton TV
United KingdomPortsmouth TV
United KingdomVentnor TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Cowes, England

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

  • 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.

  • 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 💩

  • JasonBudd70 JasonBudd (@JasonBudd70) reported from Totton and Eling, England

    @thebedfordfox @DAZNBoxing Noticed this myself when paying,a little bit sly, but noticed was entering a monthly agreement on paying the £24.99,so made sure went in next morning to cancel ,DAZN then just leave you on the Freeview stuff..hopefully they realise this sly tactic next time pisses the public off

  • 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 🙁

  • 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

    @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

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Otto_English Otto English (@Otto_English) reported

    The fact is that Neil Oliver is continuing to spout dangerous drivel on a Freeview channel and he has an army of fans and voices and big names willing to back him up. Calling that **** out should not be down to one or two people on twitter and just ignoring it is not an option

  • JimboJet1972 Jim Bell (@JimboJet1972) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice Film 4 is not showing information in device channel guide. Looking on Freeview website, film 4 guide is also blank. Same issue next Friday (17th Feb) from 1.30am. What is the issue?

  • NZTVupdate Aotearoa/New Zealand TV Update (@NZTVupdate) reported

    @DrRocke @FreeviewNZ @Primetv_NZ All we have to go on is this statement "You can look forward to more new channels in the year ahead too". Maybe Discovery is bringing it's Food Network to Freeview but who knows at this point.

  • fleming77 Jane Fleming (@fleming77) reported

    Looking at TV Schedule on Freeview what a load of crap. The best television 1970-85 Present day comedians are performers without wit

  • melulater Melanie D. #CovidIsNotOver (@melulater) reported

    Bonus of the new Freeview Streaming service is that it is an app on the Panasonic TV in my bedroom and I can now watch all poor people's TV from my bed. And RNZ if I want.

  • vatiquette 🍷🇬🇧 Vatiquette 🇬🇧🍷 (@vatiquette) reported

    Ok, who shot down the Freeview balloon 🎈 🔫

  • Tonychrizo Tony C (@Tonychrizo) reported

    @SecretPrisoner Probably in possession of a mobile phone, nice fat canteen and facilities to cook own food, access to drugs and Freeview box, probably ******** some **** officer and not giving a **** about anyone else but self

  • pipmadeley Pip (@pipmadeley) reported

    @TomABacon @Plusnet Funnily enough that was one of the first things I read when Googling the problem, but we don't have Sky and the Humax (freeview) STB isn't connected to the Internet.

  • seagull4a LindaD 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@seagull4a) reported

    Staying in a holiday cottage with BT TV. Not sure why anyone bothers to pay for this service. Far less decent choice than Freeview and seems to have nothing but back to back ancient repeats.

  • birthofthetrue Maria S / @birthofthetrue@kolektiva.social (@birthofthetrue) reported

    @CymraegDoctor @S4C It wd be good if could choose subtitles in Welsh on S4C on iplayer, wd help lots to be able to read along, but doesn't seem to be an option as viewer in England? (Used to pick up s4c on old terrestrial telly, but not now on digital/freeview)