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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 32
Milton Keynes, England 18
Manchester, England 13
Glasgow, Scotland 13
Stoke-on-Trent, England 13
Croydon, England 12
Sheffield, England 12
Birmingham, England 10
Hammersmith, England 7
Brighton, England 7
Nottingham, England 6
Ventnor, England 6
Clacton-on-Sea, England 6
Colchester, England 6
Harringay, England 5
Portsmouth, England 5
Great Yarmouth, England 5
Bristol, England 5
Leeds, England 5
Guildford, England 4
Luton, England 4
Coventry, England 4
Liverpool, England 4
Bradford, England 4
High Wycombe, England 4
Halifax, England 4
Paisley, Scotland 4
Kingston upon Hull, England 4
Leicester, England 4
Todmorden, England 4

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Elmon1200 M (@Elmon1200) reported

    @WhoreAnnoyed @cbdoilbuzz @LancsPolice Get a job will you instead of sitting all day watching freeview and dreaming up **** on the internet. Weirdo

  • tim_balance Tim Hallas (@tim_balance) reported

    @barton_jw @virginmedia I got so fed up with the price going up and up and the service getting worse and worse. I eventually told them stick their contract and went to BT and freeview Good luck cancelling though - they really don’t make it easy. Possible - but very difficult.

  • francinemerry Francine Merry (@francinemerry) reported

    @TalkTalk I have permanent disruption of my internet connection when I use Freeview, particularly with my Disney+. Can you help

  • AndyWoodturner Andy Coates (@AndyWoodturner) reported

    OK...so the coaxial jumped from the Freeview box into the blueray box in it's own? "I never touched it." "I never touched it either." Fine. Then you have a sentient coaxial cable with a mischievous personality. "A what?" Nothing. It's fixed. "Oh, good. Can you look at the laptop”

  • Jennife10651535 Jennifer Richards (@Jennife10651535) reported

    @WarphobblerKaz @RslewisSally Dr. Google says the last Cathode Ray Telly was sold in 2000. So that's what we've got. I use it as a screen to play DVDs and belong to a DVD rental service. Definitely no.HDMI slots.Its got freeview so OH can watch his quiz programmes

  • colinm65290743 colin_m (@colinm65290743) reported

    @radioyumyum @motelcrossroads @radioyumyum it’s the old itv hub catch-up service, no app needed, type itvx on a browser safari/Google chrome/works on old laptop, or on a Freeview Smart tv itvx is alongside the other iplayer catch-up services.

  • 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.

  • SmilerTheSparky Pete (@SmilerTheSparky) reported

    What free/paid TV service do you have? We have Freesat ( because our Freeview signal is shite ), Amazon Prime & Netflix, although I'm considering binning the latter.

  • AboutEG About East Grinstead (@AboutEG) reported

    Anyone else experiencing poor Freeview reception on some channels this morning? Probably something to do with atmospheric conditions. Sporadic E?

  • 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.

  • danieljmckee Dan! McKee - housewives favourite (@danieljmckee) reported

    @Jonathon_Carley @EddieRobson And best enjoyed on a low bandwith freeview channel with poor metadata editing so your recordings keep failing

  • ModernTVGold ModernTVGold (@ModernTVGold) reported

    @_tomasibray @a516digital At the moment when you checked poor old cinderella Freeview its the red screen, it isn't dead at the moment on HD and then they show some BBC programme clips before 7pm.

  • chester_craft Chester Minecraft (@chester_craft) reported

    Technology has been doing it's best to send me insane this weekend. Drop outs, disconnections, set up issues, now the right channel on Freeview stopped working for zero reason. All fixed, but unnecessarily annoying.

  • cool_mat99 mat (@cool_mat99) reported

    @TheSmellyHippy @virginmedia @pizzahutuk 100% I have had a letter to say my bill is going up by 15 pound a month bin with them 21 year I pay 150 now they can piss off now I'm going to cancel n have Freeview work for **** all

  • AnotherCinna Another PARODY ACCOUNT Cinna (@AnotherCinna) reported

    @spuddemos @ITVX There's an app for your phone or computer or your TV (like BBC iplayer). But if you only get terrestrial channels or Freeview "live" on your TV, you might have to get someone to help you set it up.

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