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: Beaconsfield, Harrow, Edgware, St Albans, West Drayton, and Southall.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Beaconsfield	TV	18 days ago
Harrow	TV	1 month ago
Harrow	TV	2 months ago
Edgware	TV	2 months ago
St Albans	TV	2 months ago
West Drayton	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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  Colin Wiseman (@crazycol) reported 16 minutes ago from Ealing, England

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

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  JEFFREY PHILLIPS (@JEFFREY03296741) reported 20 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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  Victoria Lorenzato (@vjlorenzato) reported 25 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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  Simon Bye 🐟🔶 (@UB5simon) reported 31 minutes ago from Southall, England

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

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  Dan Hollingsworth (@D_Hollingsworth) reported 37 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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  Peter Snow (@psnow85) reported 37 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.

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  Philip McHale (@PhilMcBoobs) reported 42 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

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Under Dog (@mattq660256) reported 3 minutes ago

  It's obvious all the freeview so called news channels are not news channels its so obvious with what they say and what they fail to say which should be said!!!???

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  Mitch W 71 (@Mitch_1142) reported 4 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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  The Taxman ✞ (@CohleTheTaxman) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Steven59066 @AmandaMounthump My idea to write to parliament. You're a kind man and they shouldn't be making decisions like this, which will cause you problems and upset, so it will. They need to be told its not right and the decision needs stopped. Although someone told me Freeview might actually stay

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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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  Leya 🟥🟪⬜️🟩🟧 (@_Leyanelle_) reported 10 minutes ago

  Does anyone who sees this know how to watch ITV WC other than via the app when you don’t have access to freeview? The STV app is forced on us Scottish viewers by ITV & is utter CRAP quality for live footie & I don’t have access to freeview, I use a fire stick & no aerial. 😭😭😭

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  Chrissyboy (@christo08801887) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DVDfever Wtf are you talking about? I'm watching on itv! My TV uses Freely not Freeview. Can't change that!

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  Susie Burton 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@SusieWBmeme) reported 22 minutes ago

  My elderly, widowed neighbour struggles to navigate Freeview. Her smart TV supports Netflix, Prime, Sky, but even if she could afford those platforms, she would be terrified of touching a different button on the remote. She sleeps very little and the TV is her only companion. If she can’t return to her familiar menu, she panics. I’ve had desperate calls from her in the evening, petrified that she’s ‘broken’ her TV. She never has, but her swollen arthritic fingers struggle with the tiny, spongy remote buttons. It’s heartbreaking 🥹. The @LabourParty DO NOT GIVE A **** about the vulnerable and elderly. I honestly believe they’re building to a ‘Logan’s Run’ style of totalitarian State 🤬

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  Presley Turberville (@T21949Presley) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BritishComedy One more **** feminist's comedy for the Freeview telly dustbin.

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  Graham (@Greyadder) reported 23 minutes ago

  Is anyone else getting problems with their Freeview television channels? It says no signal available could it be sunshine or the heat doing that?

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  Andy.✝️🇬🇧 (@Smeeghee) reported 28 minutes ago

  @GBNEWS Why don’t you broadcast in HD on Freeview!! Ffs, it looks crap compared to Sky!