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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 33
Exeter, England 15
Penicuik, Scotland 15
Glasgow, Scotland 9
Edinburgh, Scotland 9
Hackney, England 8
Peterborough, England 8
Manchester, England 7
Herne Bay, England 7
Bristol, England 6
Ludlow, England 6
Birmingham, England 6
Blackburn, England 6
Halifax, England 5
Alexandria, Scotland 5
Keswick, England 5
Horsham, England 4
Guildford, England 4
Flint, Wales 4
Harlow, England 4
Whitchurch, England 4
Haywards Heath, England 4
Northampton, England 4
Worthing, England 4
Brighton, England 4
Tower Hamlets, England 4
Telford, England 4
Forfar, Scotland 4
Ventnor, England 4
Croydon, England 3

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • ofthesparrows josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) reported

    somebody who is good at dad-type stuff please help me budget this, my ability to access freeview is dying

  • BillyKane0 Billy #Doom Kane (@BillyKane0) reported

    @GBNEWS You still have sound issues on Freeview, sync, echoes and low volume

  • hughster Hughster (@hughster) reported

    @vwcampervanaldr They've been paying for ads on it from day one. And no, I don't have issues with Skwawkbox/Canary because—and again, the TLDR of "poor analogy" applies—they're not Freeview TV news channels, not supposedly Ofcom regulated & not funded/promoted/defended by the government.

  • KrisNewlands Kris Newlands (@KrisNewlands) reported

    Hello @Channel4 Do you have a Channel 4 HD + 1 on Freeview? Watching the F1 on C4+1 and really noticing the poor resolution.

  • FplStatsdan Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@FplStatsdan) reported

    UK peeps: is there any way to watch ITV4 in HD if you only have Freeview? Relegating the match which actually matters for qualification to ITV4 is a poor move from ITV.

  • Skinnie_Pete New Pic (@Skinnie_Pete) reported

    @GBNEWS can't the signal on #freeview

  • Mizzach Stu Ford 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Mizzach) reported

    @Wilson34David Any solution for freeview? It picks up my Glasgow area automatically.

  • mjCurnow Martin Curnow (@mjCurnow) reported

    Dad hasn’t been able to watch @GBNEWS. Can’t watch on freeview as their TV signal is poor so they watch everything through Sky. And it’s GB News HD & screen message is to ring to upgrade. I did tell him the picture quality has been pretty dire & an embarrassment to HD TV.

  • FreeviewAdvice Freeview Advice (@FreeviewAdvice) reported

    @rahim94 @FreeviewTV Hi Rahim, Sorry to learn you are experiencing issues with your parents Freeview reception. Let us help. Can you please DM the Postcode, House Name/Number and we will look into this further for you. Kind Regards Melissa

  • robmacca1976 Rob Mac (@robmacca1976) reported

    @GBNewsFails You’ve made my week! With Freeview not working and lack of time it’s brilliant kind people are providing me with the best of the worst!

  • WhizzoUK Jason Wilson (@WhizzoUK) reported

    The picture quality on ITV4 on Freeview for Ukraine v Austria is worse than some dodgy football streams I've obviously never watched.

  • kipper_manx Manx Kipper🇬🇧 (@kipper_manx) reported

    @ElaineKirk @another_jan @canadiancarol1 Yes, that is what I watch it on, if you have a smart TV there is possibly some way of doing it through Freeview or other catch up service? Unfortunately I don’t have a smart TV, just an old one that sat silently in a corner when I stopped watching tv in disgust years ago!

  • colin_gull Colin (@colin_gull) reported

    Thank goodness for Freeview as @virgin media down in my area for up to 6 hours. They've gone strangely quiet on Twitter with their self congratulatory messages

  • lardychap Gareth Evans (@lardychap) reported

    @matsyendrasana I tried freeview but my aerial is too **** I can only pick up one channel on it

  • brianwinteruk Brian Winter (@brianwinteruk) reported

    @zsk Just thinking, unless you have no Freeview or Freesat signal, why would you want to watch live TV via ITV Hub.

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