Freeview outages and service status in Southampton, England
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- Freeview generated 0 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Southampton, including 0 direct reports.
- The most common problems reported in this area mention TV.
Share of direct reports from this area over the past 30 days.
- TV (100%)
The latest reports from users having issues in Southampton come from postal codes SO30 and SO19 .
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.
Problems in the last 24 hours in Southampton, England
Freeview signals over the past 24 hours, with local activity from Southampton, England and nearby areas. The dashed baseline applies to service-wide activity, not to local outage confirmation.
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Live Outage Map Near Southampton, England
The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Southampton, and Eastleigh.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Southampton
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TV | 9 days ago |
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Southampton
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TV | 28 days ago |
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Eastleigh
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TV | 2 months ago |
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Southampton
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TV | 2 months ago |
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Southampton
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TV | 2 months ago |
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Eastleigh
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TV | 3 months ago |
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Freeview Issues Reports Near Southampton, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Southampton and nearby locations:
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Andy Morgan 🏴 (@YDraigGoch10) reported from Southampton, England@cefinroberts I've seen better garbage on Freeview channels, like Dave....
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Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England@derwenttwo @MylesJohndmyles @GBNEWS Argee with totally. On matey question I flack through channels via virgin media no problem on any channel including the awful gb news however on Freeview all channels good Quality except the awful gb news which the worst of the lot a bit like the content I dot know about sky fst
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Chris (@chris_sucksmith) reported from East Cowes, EnglandOne bad thing about #Freeview TV is all the begging adverts. Ignore em all, ain't contributing towards inflated staff salaries. Plenty of local little charities.
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Marilyn McCubbin (@Bermudgirl) reported from Netley, England@FreeviewAdvice Can you help me please. I am now relying on Freeview. My tv has HD but Freeview isn’t. How do I get my Freeview into HD. It’s not a pleasure to watch. Thank you.
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Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England@topfotogmw @jessphillips Nice try buddy I work part time do Voluteee work as well do college and go meetings so don’t see ever-time never hard hard drive records like virgin v 6 sky q Freeview + Freesat + or bbc I player
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john knights (@JohnJpsk) reported from Eastleigh, EnglandShit on TV tonight.... But this Freeview 231 takes the biscuit...
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JasonBudd (@JasonBudd70) reported from Totton and Eling, England@thebedfordfox @DAZNBoxing Noticed this myself when paying,a little bit sly, but noticed was entering a monthly agreement on paying the £24.99,so made sure went in next morning to cancel ,DAZN then just leave you on the Freeview stuff..hopefully they realise this sly tactic next time pisses the public off
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Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England@jonny_b_badde @Nigel_Farage Don’t need to I haven’t watch @GBNEWS since it started I could ether watch on Freeview 236 or virgin 626 but done nether except I watch 50 seconds 25 on Freeview picture and sound was crap 💩 and virgin picture and sounds was very good but channel is bollocks all time crap 💩
Freeview Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Mitch W 71 (@Mitch_1142) reported@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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Kenneth Willcocks (@KennethWillcoc1) reported@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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Random Noob (TeK✨) (@RandomNoobYT) reported@KarenGr58411658 @DailyMail All paid for with the licence fee, the government does not fund TV transmission infrastructure, this is controlled and operated by the BBC. No BBC, No transmission network, no Freeview. This is why you have to pay the licence for all live TV.
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South Wales Pragmatist (@WalesPragmatist) reported@alunsays @EnglandRugby Not in HD on Freeview. For a premium match it's a poor effort from ITV, like watching TV in the 90s...
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George (The UK Action Team) (@UKAT_George) reportedPrecisely and if the BBC want to discontinue running the freeview service and save money on upkeep of the transmitters why do we have to pay the licence fee. If you decide to only watch non BBC live channels online which you pay for by having broadband then the licence is wrong.
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BrendanB (@Brendan80704486) reported@superTV247 Simple answer of course would just be to let viewers decide and make the tv licence voluntary. If people want the BBC they will pay for it. The licence is a poll tax - the poorest and the richest pay the same - and very regressive. Why force the poor to pay to watch freeview tv
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LDH Marketing (@LDHMarketing) reported@BBCLookEast With landlines becoming broadband only, and Freely starting to replace Freeview we are becoming 100% dependent on broadband. That has dangerous implications for resilence if broadband goes down, or worse if you never had adequate broadband at all.
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'darnstadium' (@darnstadium) reportedThere's an interesting problem here. Switching off Freeview would make spectrum available for 5/6G, but at the (enormous) cost of putting all that bandwidth on existing connections. Not least all the perfectly good non-smart TVs that would become E-waste overnight.
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Martin Dalton (@martindalton5) reported@ABridgen This is a government tax on the people. Make the BBC pay pre view via iPlayer with a limited free service of 1 channel on Freeview/freely called BBC Mix
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A (@andrewmtj) reported@simonmontefiore I have been trying Blue Bloods recently as it is on Freeview. Never made the end of one. Poor, but nice to see Magnum again - how his voice has changed!
Recent Freeview reports in Southampton, England
Latest available direct user reports from this city and nearby areas. These are individual observations, not confirmed incidents or a complete outage history.
- Southampton: TV
- Southampton: TV
- Eastleigh: TV
- Southampton: TV
- Southampton: TV
- Eastleigh: TV
Freeview detected incident history
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