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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 38
Sheffield, England 27
Manchester, England 17
Stoke-on-Trent, England 13
Glasgow, Scotland 12
Nunthorpe, England 9
Birmingham, England 8
Leeds, England 8
Ventnor, England 7
Croydon, England 6
Brighton, England 6
Rochdale, England 6
Derby, England 6
Ludlow, England 6
Bristol, England 5
Halifax, England 5
Leicester, England 5
Paisley, Scotland 5
Hammersmith, England 5
Hackney, England 5
Newport, Wales 4
Nottingham, England 4
Wigan, England 4
Colchester, England 4
Harringay, England 4
Liverpool, England 4
Kingston upon Hull, England 4
City of Westminster, England 4
Todmorden, England 4
Bury, England 4

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • ai_azman Azman Idris (@ai_azman) reported

    @eddydaud FreeView: absolutely rite. Best is new n fresh leader from younger gen. Dont get Mukhriz coz it will be worst than now. Terima hakikat atau hard to win even 1 seat. I bet on it.

  • Gary1609 Gary (@Gary1609) reported

    @Bbmorg I support no license thereby giving choice for those who want to watch the other Freeview channels but not BBC the right and freedom to do so. In an age of thousands of channels,& streaming,a license should not forced. I hold the same view regardless of which party is in Govt.

  • chrisalfw Chris Williams (@chrisalfw) reported

    @joti261 @Nigel_Farage @GBNEWS STUPID!! GB News is not a satellite channel; it is free to air on Freeview.

  • Gary1609 Gary (@Gary1609) reported

    @gemandmoll @Bbmorg Which is great for you. So maybe you should be paying through subscription allowing those of us who do not watch their services the right to watch other freeview channels without paying for a service we do not want.

  • simonphoward Simon Howard (@simonphoward) reported

    @bt_uk I know, but why would I pay you for Freeview Channels! Hard bundling TV with Broadband to get me to sign for 2 more years. BT broadband is poor & my area is just getting new providers with Fibre to the house. This feels like anticompetitive practice using your TV @CMAgovUK

  • ToxophiliteLeon Leon (@ToxophiliteLeon) reported

    @Forces_TV @MakingBlakes7 @GerryAndersonTV If only I could get your channel on freeview in our neighbourhood 😥. Your signal hamsters need to spin their wheels a bit harder!

  • Mark56623345 mark Hughes (@Mark56623345) reported

    @a516digital Out of everyone I know only 1 had something other than sky freesat or freeview, he has virgin media, but is so reluctant to talk about it because he has had so many issues with it, he wants to smash it up.

  • back_the_BBC Back the BBC 📺📻📡📱 (@back_the_BBC) reported

    John Whittingdale leaving @DCMS may be bad news for BBC. He had ruled out a subscription model for the BBC as being technically impossible on Freeview (to replace the licence fee). He was also known to like Tim Davie's reforms of the BBC

  • TomJone58318019 Tom Jones (@TomJone58318019) reported

    @joti261 @Nigel_Farage @GBNEWS Typical idiot Remoaner, you must have found a way to cancel your Freeview then because it's on there too.

  • Mark56623345 mark Hughes (@Mark56623345) reported

    @a516digital But what I did learn today, is everyone seems to be having some sort of issue, freeview seems to be annoying many, with its picture quality.

  • MaggieJudge6 Maggie689 (@MaggieJudge6) reported

    @RebeccaHBM I’ve had no signal for TV since they changed to Freeview, so for approx 15 years I’ve had to pay for Sky. I don’t live in a little country village, I live in Barrow in Furness. We get our signal from IOM which is bounced off Winterhill, but not available here

  • Phi1Masters Phil Masters (@Phi1Masters) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice Can you confirm if any works are affecting LL30 2SY (Llandundo)? Freeview showing no signal intermittently last couple if days, then completely off yesterday about 4pm. Still no return!!@

  • FreeviewAdvice Freeview Advice (@FreeviewAdvice) reported

    @SharynCase_ Hi Sharyn, I am sorry to hear that you having issues with your Freeview reception. So we can look into this further can you please DM us your postcode and house name or number?

  • IfanLlewelyn Ifan Llewelyn Jones (@IfanLlewelyn) reported

    @CarrieAHarper @thebarryhorns Don't even know where to find it! Never even searched. Is it on Freeview?

  • Humblebrag19 Humblebrag (@Humblebrag19) reported

    @LeeHurstComic Depends what the source is. If it’s SD freeview it will probably look terrible. Some channels are more compressed than others. Watch the HD channels. Plug a Blu-ray or 4K Blu ray (or watch a 4K film on a streaming service) and it will look like the mut’s nuts.

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