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Freeview Outage Map

The map below depicts the most recent cities in the United Kingdom where Freeview users have reported problems and outages. If you are experiencing problems with Freeview, please submit a report below.

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The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.

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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.

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Most Affected Locations

Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:

Location Reports
London, England 155
Bromsgrove, England 128
Birmingham, England 100
Milton Keynes, England 46
Manchester, England 43
Nottingham, England 40
Northampton, England 39
Bedford, England 38
Cambridge, England 33
Glasgow, Scotland 28
Peterborough, England 28
Luton, England 27
Walsall, England 26
Southwark, England 25
Tower Hamlets, England 24
Leeds, England 24
Southampton, England 24
Huntingdon, England 23
Clacton-on-Sea, England 23
Leicester, England 23
Redhill, England 22
Croydon, England 21
Bristol, England 19
Crawley, England 19
Droitwich, England 18
Reading, England 17
Slough, England 16
Swindon, England 16
Hackney, England 15
Norwich, England 15

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • HJMovingFarAway HJHeadingFarAway (@HJMovingFarAway) reported

    @Jack09056 Hello, hope you feel ok - life sucks at the moment. Put a good film on, if you have one. There are still some fab ones till Sun on Freeview.

  • fmacskasy fmacskasy (@fmacskasy) reported

    While @radionz is on news & current affairs blackout during "summer break", there's Al Jazeera on Freeview. This is what a commercialised RNZ would look like. One word: irrelevant.

  • NickHackett2 Nicholas (@NickHackett2) reported

    @salbags60 I'm sure there used to be channel like that called teachers tv but changed to together tv now and I've never watch together tv so can't tell you unfortunately. But it is on freeview

  • MaryMares81 mary whitfield (@MaryMares81) reported from Salford, England

    @FreeviewAdvice we have lost the majority of freeview channels having retuned a few times. Used the availability checker which says channels should be available, can you help? Thanks

  • Ozychlyrus84 Ozychlyrus (@Ozychlyrus84) reported

    I bought a hdd for my TV because I thought it'd be cool to record stuff but then I remembered that freeview is garbage and I basically wasted 60 quid

  • EricSMI47481041 Eric SMITH (@EricSMI47481041) reported

    @bartollengua @salbags60 ??BBC 4 is a terrestrial channel and on Freeview. No cable service needed for either of above

  • CameraTruth News_Camera (@CameraTruth) reported

    @bobbt2417 @NaomiLWood @Digbylj The BBC doesn't receive EU subsidy. It has made use of grants to help set up DAB radio and Digital Freeview switchover but this money (around £4m) wasn't used for programming or content. This info is quite widely available.

  • funusual Tinsel Tits (@funusual) reported

    @NoWireHangers Ah, damn. It tends to only appear on Drama channel on Freeview I've noticed.

  • Skycardseu SkyCards.EU (@Skycardseu) reported

    The service issue with some channels on our Freeview IPTV service has now been resolved. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Please reboot your Mag box to ensure the service is reactivated.

  • owainroderick1 Owain Roderick (@owainroderick1) reported

    For me, the festive TV schedule on the Freeview channels has been pretty dire. I think only the soaps and Doctor Who saved the schedule. I like Mrs Brown's Boys was poor. Normally. I love it! Against the opinion of Twitter. Don't have Sky or the like.

  • mostlyceltic81 Crackerman (@mostlyceltic81) reported

    @1MarkAllison I bought a Samsung at £700 odd quid and last year spend £800 on a Samsung. Neither have freeview yet cheap as **** shite tvs seem to

  • jjone125_j itma (@jjone125_j) reported

    @salbags60 Good idea, one of the extra BBC channels that are viewable on Freeview but then we have the problem of age related lessons

  • Tugzrida Cameron Steel (@Tugzrida) reported

    @o0dIpw @_marty_k I’m not sure if you’ll be able to pick up NZ fta here though. From Wikipedia: “Due to restrictions on broadcast rights, the unencrypted Freeview service...was set up as a horizontally-aligned service on the New Zealand spot beam.”

  • mostlyceltic81 Crackerman (@mostlyceltic81) reported

    Managed to download freeview onto my amazon firestick so, took it down, plugged it into my new TV. Hdmi port doesn't work. Brilliant. Just doomed to never get freeview. Never buying @SamsungTV ever again. No freeview. Hdmi port doesn't work

  • _Ninji Ninji 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇮 B L M / 1312 (@_Ninji) reported from Glasgow, Scotland

    @ali_king Now I feel like I should check the 365 Travel channel on Freeview again to see if they’re still advertising cruises that never happened

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