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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 187
Birmingham, England 98
Manchester, England 77
Nottingham, England 63
Glasgow, Scotland 56
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England 51
Bristol, England 49
Sheffield, England 48
Leeds, England 47
Croydon, England 42
Swindon, England 38
Clacton-on-Sea, England 31
Tower Hamlets, England 30
Derby, England 30
Southampton, England 29
Brighton, England 28
Reading, England 27
Milton Keynes, England 26
Edinburgh, Scotland 25
Kingston upon Hull, England 25
Liverpool, England 23
Southwark, England 21
Bradford, England 21
Newcastle upon Tyne, England 21
Norwich, England 21
Colchester, England 20
Stoke-on-Trent, England 20
Tonbridge, England 20
Stockport, England 19
Portsmouth, England 18

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • lgladdy Liam (@lgladdy) reported

    @willsandry I’m watching on actual TV/Freeview. They’re still not right after the Red Bee fire/oxygen suppression system issues over the weekend. I think they must be broadcasting on backup systems.

  • willmgreenhalgh William Greenhalgh (@willmgreenhalgh) reported

    @CassLennox Funny thing is only channel 4 works on all 4 right now the other live channels are dead also ita due to complicated reasons woth how thr signal is transmitted to freeview cable and satellite its all messed up still

  • jaco45er Jaco45er (@jaco45er) reported

    @dougmcfarlane41 @NickyAACampbell @bbc5live There was something on the radio the other day about claiming money from companies who don’t provide paid internet services after so many days. I guess freeview wouldn’t be included. What is the actual problem, have they said?

  • Joe__Monty Joe (@Joe__Monty) reported

    Is anyone's Freeview still not working in Teesside? Getting ridiculous now.

  • lauren_miles L a u r e n (@lauren_miles) reported

    Anyone having issues with the Voice-over on #bakeoff watch it via freeview rather than Sky and its much better #GBBO ☺

  • Shelle02 Michelle Hedley 💙 (@Shelle02) reported

    @LeeYates82 @virginmedia It is the same issue on the sky and freeview /freesat platforms. No subtitles on any of the 12 channel 4 channels and issues with BBC and Channel 5.

  • mylifeinwordsuk Lee-Mc (@mylifeinwordsuk) reported

    @virginmedia Just checked my bill, you are adding £24 a month, when I have zero usage on phone, basic 100mb fibre and basic mixit TV package which is paramount to freeview, sorry not getting fleeced by you, when you aren’t even providing a half decent service

  • Camwoj145 Cameron Young (@Camwoj145) reported

    @cleanfeed_ttvr @Channel4 @channel5_tv I know not a huge issue but how long has C4's DOG been off? Watching in sd on freeview.

  • a516digital Mike (ex-a516digital) (@a516digital) reported

    (/2) ...you risk losing your Sky EPG slot, at least temporarily. Note that E4+1 is showing an off air caption on Freeview, but it's running normally on satellite. If it was the other way, there would be trouble.

  • richard_of_yore ℜ𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔜𝔬𝔯𝔢 (@richard_of_yore) reported

    @Outside_Margina @Channel4 Try obtaining Film on 4 or other channels with a 4 in the name on Freeview. Technical problems are ongoing.

  • OX26Runner 🏃🏽🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️ (@OX26Runner) reported

    @jonoread Seems ok via Freeview, seeing tweets of issues.

  • Weanie4 Weanie4🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇺🇺🇸 (@Weanie4) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice is there a Freeview box that cuts out the need for an Ariel and pick up the signal on WiFi from my router to stream it to my TV in my bedroom

  • willmgreenhalgh William Greenhalgh (@willmgreenhalgh) reported

    @Maxiwacks @Channel4 it more seems to affect channel 4 HD then certain programmes but it also seems to act differently depending on what service your using, such as satellite cable and freeview, or internet services which are mostly broken

  • PATVOne1 P.A.T.V. Scunthorpe (@PATVOne1) reported

    @FlissWolf @E4Tweets It also depends on how and where you’re watching. I understand Freeview viewers may be seeing the broken feed in certain areas, while satellite and cable are on the back up. Watching catch up content on All4 is fine, it’s just the live streams that are showing the broken feeds.

  • MixedRaceSpur Andrew (@MixedRaceSpur) reported

    @peter_perfect_ Oh big problem Saturday night affecting Four and Five and its sister channels. No sound, channels disappearing or static. I’ve never seen anything like it in the digital era. Freeview suffered worst.

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