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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 01/07/2026 01:20

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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 (5%)

    Total Blackout (5%)

  3. Internet (2%)

    Internet (2%)

  4. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

  5. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  6. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map Near East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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 💩

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 🙁

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • misscepayne Carolyn Payne (@misscepayne) reported

    @CarrieHFletcher Literally dreading the day I have to upgrade the telly! I don’t know how any of it works! And I haven’t even entered the realm of the smart tv yet! We just have freeview! That’s it! Good luck! And sorry for the lack of help x

  • jonie1303 jonie1303 #NHSLove💙 #corbynwasright #gtto (@jonie1303) reported

    @aunty_shirley @RhonddaBryant RT vanished off sky and Freeview in the UK when the EU banned the awful channel from using certain satellites so it couldn't broadcast in the UK

  • LMilk007 LennyMilk007 (@LMilk007) reported

    Oh sweet jesus @StuartYoung001 im watching a 1976 film #squirm on one of your channels @TalkingPicsTV on freeview 82 . So an electrical storm is going to hit and earth worms are going to attack a town ..... apparently. All a bit weird but i watch it with wine help

  • Mr___Boy John (@Mr___Boy) reported

    @Channel4 6 months after your major outage, I'm still seeing really bad audio sync on freeview... The internet is full of others saying the same thing. No other live TV has this issue. @WeAreWhisperTV is it just your F1 shows, that's all I watch on the channel?

  • rachie1788 Rachael Kerr (@rachie1788) reported

    Why do I pay for @skytv again? Never works or downloads anything! May aswell stick with freeview as that’s pretty much all that is functional! 😠😤

  • ceejay_epping Colin (@ceejay_epping) reported

    @MartinD64044821 @BBCBreaking It could theoretically still broadcast on Freeview but they could not get the signal to the UK without using an EU regulated distribution company. Now even that possibility is shut down. If you are desperate you can watch it online.

  • SonnerSounds WhatNow (@SonnerSounds) reported

    The @RadioTimes website used to be great, now it's terrible. Used to be able to hover over a programme and get a summary, now have to click through. Doesn't remember if you are Freeview or whatever.

  • BeguilingFellow Steven Desmond (@BeguilingFellow) reported

    @Forces_TV Sadly nothing right now, as there's no signal on some Freeview channels (including Forces TV) in CM21 area at the moment :(

  • SatwantBee Satwant Bee (@SatwantBee) reported

    @rlrossi64 Good question. I'm guessing: network television; broadcast TV; digital TV channels; Freeview. Creates a distinction between those and streaming services, I guess.

  • SnapeHugh hugbilly (@SnapeHugh) reported

    @RadioTimes Thanks for the reply and I understand the intention. What is slightly more annoying is that the site no longer allows one to set a default service provider (i.e. Sky or Freesat.) I use Freeview and it used to be that once I'd selected that service as the provider the: contd . . .