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Freeview Outage Report in East 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 East Cowes, England

The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in East 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 East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England 03/12/2026 17:55

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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%)

  6. Phone (%)

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Live Outage Map Near East 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 East Cowes, England

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

  • 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 💩

  • 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

    @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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • RudolphUcker 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚕𝚒  (@RudolphUcker) reported

    If you bought your smart tv or Freeview/freesat receiver more than 4 or 5 years ago, and haven’t tried ITV Hub recently, check you can still get into it. If you can’t, chances are you won’t be able to get the new ITVX service.

  • m_laverick Michelle Laverick Music 🤖 (@m_laverick) reported

    @tjz1100 @AppleTV @FreeviewTV I should scrapped my old setup (plasma + Humax freeview) and bought a smart telly. Instead like an idiot I bought a cheap Manhattan set top & an AppleTV. At least AppleTV was gift…

  • sospainter 🅿🅰🆄🅻 🅲🅾🅻🅻🅸🅴🆁 (@sospainter) reported from Whyteleafe, England

    @IanSlaterPhoto1 @VixThatRuns I have a sizeable Samsung. Ditched Virgin Media, the plan was to have Freeview. The tv doesn’t support Freeview!

  • mpr147 Michael Rogers (@mpr147) reported

    @pablomcfc83 @bt_uk Agree mate. We pay extra for Now TV but the internet hardly ever works for us to access it. We just wrote that off but some days we can’t even watch the basic freeview channels as we ‘can’t get a signal’. We’ve learnt from our mistakes. We will go back to Sky asap.

  • ariadneassoc Simon Jones (@ariadneassoc) reported

    @TalkingPicsTV Question - I normally watch you via Virgin - where I know I can't access Encore (yet) but put my (Samsung) TV on Freeview last night and got a "TPTVEncore is not available on this device" message when I pressed red. Is it a Samsung issue?

  • andrewhdonohoe Andrew Donohoe (@andrewhdonohoe) reported

    First time watching live sport on @VMSportIE @VirginMediaIE and again the picture quality is beyond bad. How are we still in this place where basic HD on freeview isn't a thing? You can't see player numbers on the wide view. #IREvRSA #Rugby

  • eltomas87 Tom Shaw (@eltomas87) reported

    @Jaack Before sky took sky sports news off freeview I loved my Saturdays playing footy manager on laptop with soccer Saturday on TV! Now I just stream the game I want to watch! If they don't want people to stream make it affordable and bring ticket prices down

  • LorraineDWright Lorraine Wright (@LorraineDWright) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice I currently have no channels available to watch on Freeview via the Mendip transmitter. Can you advise when this issue will be resolved - this has been ongoing since yesterday.

  • Page_888 Matthew H (@Page_888) reported

    @UKChristmasTV Schedules suddenly appeared on Freeview guide this morning. Probably an issue for them given it was a weekend. Although, who knows? Have a week filled with happiness - Matthew.

  • ReferralsEasy Easy Money Referrals (@ReferralsEasy) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice I just got a jvc fire tv with  freeview play built in, I looked online about it & was asked if I had Aerial, WiFi etc so I just clicked WiFi as the aerial is broken but when I've set up tv it's asking me to scan stations with aerial so can't get live TV.