Freeview outages and service status in Watford, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Watford, England

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

Live Outage Map Near Watford, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Barnet, Beaconsfield, and Harrow.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Barnet	Wi-fi	18 days ago
Beaconsfield	TV	1 month ago
Harrow	TV	2 months ago
Harrow	TV	2 months ago
Edgware	TV	2 months ago
St Albans	TV	2 months ago

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Watford, England

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

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  Dan Hollingsworth (@D_Hollingsworth) reported 29 minutes ago from Rickmansworth, England

  When did BBC4 HD. Leave Freeview? What a load of ****, missed a chunk of #TOTP and joining it late with Michael ruddy Jackson.

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  Simon Bye 🐟🔶 (@UB5simon) reported 29 minutes ago from Southall, England

  All those **** channels on Freeview and it's BBC News HD that gets the chop 🤔

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  Victoria Lorenzato (@vjlorenzato) reported 32 minutes ago from Brentford, England

  Catholic Twitter UK- help please! Anyone know of a Mass being broadcast on TV tomorrow ( not via internet) Lovely elderly lady has Freeview but no internet.... TIA!

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  Colin Wiseman (@crazycol) reported 38 minutes ago from Ealing, England

  @stevieboywise If that’s Freeview maybe due to high pressure issue again.

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  Philip McHale (@PhilMcBoobs) reported 46 minutes ago from Barnet, England

  @jonnyt78 Not at all. Was supposed to be awful except from some certain sections of the media. Some of the games were of freeview over here as well, I didn’t have a clue

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  JEFFREY PHILLIPS (@JEFFREY03296741) reported 49 minutes ago from Brentford, England

  @TalkingPicsTV Hello. Watching at about 4.35 pm on Monday 24th the Sky TV picture was completely lost from your channel and went off air. All other channels were fine. Also okay on Freeview but I missed the end of the film. At 4.48 pm it is still without a, signal. What's up?

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  Peter Snow (@psnow85) reported 59 minutes ago from Arkley, England

  @Samantha_J_Rea Hmm not to sure about freeview but definitely freesat it’s been taken off for over a year. Probably the same though. Sucks big time. Anyway. Hope you are well.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ant brown (@AntBisexualant2) reported 8 minutes ago

  @cxdi55 @skytv @SkyHelpTeam I had to buy one of their Pucks because the Freeview signal was so bad. First one was broken but they still tried to blame my broadband, tried to get me to switch. told them I was locked into a 2 year deal. they shut up. Shop around.

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  Essex Baldy (@darrensharp73) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TalkTV @cjsnowdon @iancollinsuk I don’t necessarily believe a sub model would work, but as an initial step they should require subscription-based logins at least for their TV and web-based services (radio maybe less practical). Maybe just have SD broadcasts on Freeview and require streaming for HD due to practicalities (Sky shouldn’t be an issue). This way those who don’t pay (for a license) will find it hard to view, and it would also cut off more overseas users who view without paying.

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  Kenneth Willcocks (@KennethWillcoc1) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TheStingisBack Last time I saw this film (Time After Time 1979) was in 1990's. Never shown on Freeview channels since then unfortunately!

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  TB (@BUNF28) reported 16 minutes ago

  @connor_naismith @GMcGarrySport @MarkBirtles Crewe fan here, like a lot of our (small and very tinpot) fanbase I won’t bother travelling 20 minutes down the road for today’s game, because it isn’t a derby. Do I listen on freeview or will it be on DAB as we’re playing a big club?

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  Stephen Meyer (@stephen_e_meyer) reported 19 minutes ago

  @MTGraveStudio our small town got cable TV, my parents were at my grandparents down the street, I was home alone, there was an HBO “freeview” showing ALIEN. I was 7. Had nightmares for months, couldn’t tell mom why bc it was rated R & I’d get in trouble Still think its the best horror film.

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  Mitch W 71 (@Mitch_1142) reported 20 minutes ago

  @1Atkins @ThatsTVOfficial xenon81Message posted on30 Jul 2026 03:21 PM - last edited: 30 Jul 2026 03:22 PM That's TV has gradually removed all its channels from Sky, Freesat and Virgin Media over the last few months. It remains on Freeview (for now) but is said to be suffering financial problems.

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  Squirrell13 (@GracenMagz) reported 21 minutes ago

  @OlooneyJohn Our freeview doesnt even work. Can never get all the channels, they seem to go missing and the signal often drops out.

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  Dave (@m1ctk) reported 23 minutes ago

  @cordbusters Hoping that the video resolution will be higher than the poor 544 x 576 on freeview at 720 x 576 at least

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  Jon Smith (@jonsmithUC) reported 27 minutes ago

  @RidgeandFrost @WilfredFrost Once Freeview is turned off by this Government, ITV under American ownership will be a subscription model streaming service.

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  jason_mi7 (@Mi7Jason) reported 28 minutes ago

  @WhichUK For live events,internet speed isn’t everything. For reliability/lowest delay, broadcast still wins: Freeview/satellite first,then cable/TV provider. Fibre streaming is great,but usually behind “live”. 5G/4G/Starlink can work well, but depend more on signal, congestion and load.