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NOW TV is a subscription over-the-top internet television service operated by British satellite television provider Sky. NOW TV offers contract-free access to Sky's premium channels, such as sports, movies and entertainment.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of NOW TV reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

NOW TV Outage Chart in Smethwick, Sandwell, England 04/01/2026 15:50

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by NOW TV users through our website.

  1. Crashing (32%)

    Crashing (32%)

  2. Buffering (29%)

    Buffering (29%)

  3. Sign in (26%)

    Sign in (26%)

  4. Playback Issues (12%)

    Playback Issues (12%)

  5. Video Quality (1%)

    Video Quality (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England

The most recent NOW TV outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, Oldbury, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomBirmingham Buffering
United KingdomBirmingham Crashing
United KingdomOldbury Crashing
United KingdomWalsall Sign in
United KingdomBirmingham Crashing
United KingdomWolverhampton Sign in

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NOW TV Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:

  • sophiemorbey morble (@sophiemorbey) reported from Birmingham, England

    PSA: Now TV are the worst company I’ve ever had the displeasure of coming across. Poor and rude customer service and STILL no working broadband, despite being promised it would be yesterday. @nowtv @nowtvhelp YOU SUCK.

  • ibaird73 Ian Baird (@ibaird73) reported from Birmingham, England

    @nowtv Can’t access my day pass to Sky Sports. Rebooted everything. Other passes are working fine. Others seem to be having issues with @SkySports too! Help!

  • sophiemorbey morble (@sophiemorbey) reported from Birmingham, England

    Within 24 hours of me ringing @virginmedia, we’re up and running with broadband (it’s also dead fast, bonus) 👏🏼 If anyone is considering @NOWTV for internet, PLEASE don’t bother. They are honestly the worst provider I’ve ever come across.

  • _Rachele_ Rachele (@_Rachele_) reported from Birmingham, England

    . @NOWTV HELP ME PLS 😭 For about a year I've not been able to update my watch list - every time I try to add to my TV it's not letting me again saying: "sorry we're having trouble updating."

  • sophiemorbey morble (@sophiemorbey) reported from Birmingham, England

    Hey @nowtv @nowtvhelp please give Ferruccio from your call centre a raise!!!!! We didn’t 100% get to the bottom of my issue (shock) but he cheered me up with chats about Animal Crossing and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Top guy - please be my pal x

NOW TV Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • TimothyUptonLBH Timothy Upton (@TimothyUptonLBH) reported

    They're aware of the issue, engineers on it, directed to the NowTv forum (i'll pass), no ETA for resolution at the moment.

  • FPL_Dabby FPL DABBY (@FPL_Dabby) reported

    @fpl_phenom Yeah so I'm with BT for internet and TV & then pay extra for Sky Sports on tv and it also gets me access to Nowtv for consoles ect Ive tried that and found it doesnt work, they know of the issue and are trying to fix but dont seem to be in any rush. Guessing an app update soon

  • thenathkinsell Nath Kinsell (@thenathkinsell) reported

    Love paying for NowTV to watch the F1, and spending my time seeing it buffer every five minutes...

  • Mimzymoo Mimzymoo ツ 🇬🇧 (@Mimzymoo) reported

    Oh for goodness sake @NOW @NOWTV this is like a week now of an unusable product. Come on sort it out.

  • Kia_Who_ KiaRebecca (@Kia_Who_) reported

    @bt_uk It’s saying it’s an issue with my router but it’s 100000% not. My connection is fine, prime and Netflix are working fine, it’s just the NOWTV channels

  • josh_kruk Josh Kruk (@josh_kruk) reported

    Why are Sky Sports streams on NowTV through a Chromecast sooo **** the quality is barely HD and always freezing 🤬

  • EddJefferson Edd Jefferson (@EddJefferson) reported

    I do find it funny that NowTV have spent however much they have on rebranding themselves as "Now" only for: A) everyone to keep calling them NowTV. And B) their streaming apps to still be terrible.

  • CatchyShoe Catchy Shoe (@CatchyShoe) reported

    @jerryduk @NOWHelpTeam I’ve been disconnected since 16:30. The nowtv webpage says there are issues in North London. Do you have any updates on this?

  • SteveJmzF1 Steve 🏁 (@SteveJmzF1) reported

    Incredible that I can watch hours of Netflix/Twitch on my internet with no issue but NowTV has buffered and forced me to restart every 5-10 minutes during the #F1 @NOWHelpTeam

  • jerryduk -𝓙𝓮𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓓𝓪𝓿𝓲𝓼 ☮️3.5% (@jerryduk) reported

    Anybody else having #NOWtv broadband or internet problems? My modem thinks it's connected but there's no internet. I've tweeted to @NOW I'm in the Southampton NewForest area.