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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 01/22/2026 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 (92%)

    TV (92%)

  2. Total Blackout (4%)

    Total Blackout (4%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  6. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Cowes, Isle of Wight, England

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomVentnor Phone
United KingdomVentnor TV
United KingdomPortsmouth TV
United KingdomPortsmouth 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:

  • 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.

  • 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

    @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

  • 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.

  • 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

    @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:

  • ThatJoelfella That (BLANK) fella 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@ThatJoelfella) reported

    @PaulM30033923 @Radioheady2021 @NadineDorries Guess you don’t watch a single BBC televison show, radio programme, or BBC funded film or read any BBC website or make use of the Freeview transmitter network?

  • davidkeatsuk David Keats (@davidkeatsuk) reported

    @Marc_Burrows @scottygb I mean, yes, but their thinking isn’t having the BBC on freeview. They want a new way to pay for the BBC. So if the BBC’s ends up paying for its freeview space as it was no longer a public broadcaster - the BBC might commercially decide to no longer be a service for all.Disaster

  • PCarmichaelVO Paul Carmichael (@PCarmichaelVO) reported

    @In4ThePips @NadineDorries The fact that we think disabled people deserve good programming, children deserve good educational resources, the poor deserve Freeview etc etc? Some of us do anyway.

  • BrokenTV Mark Gibbings-Jones (@BrokenTV) reported

    @GiNgEr_JaMeS Plus, it's a model that would remove BBC services from Freeview, a service used by... the elderly people with limited income that Dorries is claiming to be protecting.

  • timalmond Tim Almond (@timalmond) reported

    @MattWWoolwich The BBC is already garbage, as is most of Freeview.

  • PCarmichaelVO Paul Carmichael (@PCarmichaelVO) reported

    @williambecket @NadineDorries Hi William. The most popular way for pensioners to receive TV is via Freeview. The licence fee pays to maintain the Freeview transmitter network. Presumably this “pay rise” for pensioners can then pay for this?

  • timrollpickerin Tim Roll-Pickering (@timrollpickerin) reported

    @Mark0Connell @Paul_Burgin Here's a suggestion that will make the @BBC more popular here: Sort out the Freeview signal so it's watchable in hot weather. Here in London the signal is terrible to non existent at the height of summer. Alternatively make the BBC issue refunds for services not delivered.

  • PCarmichaelVO Paul Carmichael (@PCarmichaelVO) reported

    @PumaBare So you want private subscribers to maintain the Freeview network that they don’t use, provide educational resources whether they have kids or not, provide Welsh services if they aren’t Welsh, provide for Disability programming if they aren’t disabled? Why should they?

  • PCarmichaelVO Paul Carmichael (@PCarmichaelVO) reported

    @williambecket @NadineDorries So you’ll be happy for these pensioners to pay a separate broadcasting tax to maintain the Freeview transmitter network? That’s MILLIONS each year. None of the programming they recognise of course.

  • gsydom Dominic Wheatley (@gsydom) reported

    @PCarmichaelVO @NadineDorries BBC does not own / fund Freeview network. Public subsidy of minority programming should continue but does not require a licence fee tax. BBC does not need to be for profit but no-one should be forced to buy its generally poor mainstream programming.