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Freeview Outage Report in Balham, Greater London, England

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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.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Balham, England

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

Freeview Outage Chart in Balham, Greater London, England 01/01/2026 02:10

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (91%)

    TV (91%)

  2. Total Blackout (5%)

    Total Blackout (5%)

  3. Internet (2%)

    Internet (2%)

  4. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

  5. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  6. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Balham, Greater London, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: London, Harringay, Hammersmith, Croydon, Poplar, Newham, Waltham Forest, Southwark, Wandsworth, City of London, City of Westminster, Kensington, Barking, Islington and Wembley.

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City Problem Type Report Time
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United KingdomHarringay TV
United KingdomHammersmith TV
United KingdomCroydon TV
United KingdomLondon TV
United KingdomLondon TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Balham, England

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

  • budgie Lee 'Budgie' Barnett (@budgie) reported from Richmond, England

    @DrRacheal @FreeviewTV When I had problems with Freeview, I found their helpline - when I eventually managed to get through to someone - very helpful. Took me step-by-step through the stuff I could check and solved it for me.

  • crazycol Colin Wiseman (@crazycol) reported from Ealing, England

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

  • niklasRen Nik Rahmel (@niklasRen) reported from Wandsworth, England

    @Stephen_Neal Good shout! If we just take the Freeview/Freesat ones, we get to ten, excluding the National ones: 1) BBC One 2) BBC Two 3) BBC Four 4) CBBC 5) CBeebies 6) BBC News 7) BBC Parliament 8) Dave 9) Drama 10) Yesterday But they aren’t licence fee funded, so don’t help the argument.

  • omotforest david sinfield #pssc (@omotforest) reported from West Molesey, England

    To be honest, when you've removed the dependency of other real time tv, i cant see many people chipping in. Many will be paying just to watch their subscription service or Freeview.

  • EranE1980 Eran Edry (@EranE1980) reported from Camden Town, England

    @FreeviewAdvice hi there. Please see DMs sent to Freeview account asking for support with channels that don't show (weird D sign with \ on it next to them) including Sky News, Pick and others. Many thanks

  • fishinthedark1 fishinthedark (@fishinthedark1) reported from Hammersmith, England

    @PayneB44 @tomhfh @BBC Your point was you want a break from it. There’s 1000s of channels, Freeview, YouTube, Sky, NOWTV, Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, BRITBOX DVDs, Blu-rays. Boxsets. There’s never been so much content to take your mind off it. Or just turn the telly off.

  • Tommy_M_E_J Tom Jordan (@Tommy_M_E_J) reported from Hammersmith, England

    @njvns That’s so shit. It’s literally called freeview and yet it’s not free

  • themib Martin Bentley, AKA Martin Bentley (@themib) reported from London, England

    Also, NXT UK will air on a weeks delay on the Paramount Network, which puts them on Freeview.

  • RegenerateAndy Andy Smith (@RegenerateAndy) reported from Wandsworth, England

    Channel ‘Pick’ on freeview. Never heard of it before but grateful for it tonight #chelsea

  • daguvernor tommy harper (@daguvernor) reported from Wandsworth, England

    @virginmedia once again trying to contact virgin media is a no go a proper waste of time contract has run out trying to cancel they have put the money up to £60 a month for basically 2 freeview boxes I have cancelled my direct debit which is due on the 7 april what a scam😡

  • Marmalord Marmalord (the) (@Marmalord) reported from Epsom and Ewell District, England

    @itvhub Humax FVP-4000T 1TB Freeview Set Top Box Recorder, and having to sign in more or less every time is making us all dislike Martin Freeman

  • Beige29 Beige (@Beige29) reported from Merton, England

    @loudouglas75 I have such shit freeview I only have itv2+1

  • PlexNetflix Martin Phillp 🔶 (@PlexNetflix) reported from Camberwell, England

    My broadband has gone down, so stuck watching QVC on Freeview.

  • nessymon Nessy 😷 (@nessymon) reported from London, England

    @MarketaDee @CNN Freeview has never worked for us for some reason.. will try again. Thanks.

  • vjlorenzato Victoria Lorenzato (@vjlorenzato) reported 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!

  • Scare158Steve Scarebear (@Scare158Steve) reported from Wandsworth, England

    @bt_uk Thanks for the help. I spoke to freeview, tried a few things which didn't work but i contacted your TV help and after doing a few basic things somehow it appears to be working now! Very Strange. Tks

  • JensFallesen Jens Fallesen (@JensFallesen) reported from Hounslow, England

    @leksi_p Correct. If you do not have Freeview, Sky or Virgin (or any other cable service), you should not need to pay if you never watch it.

  • AStrangerJ A.j. Stranger #UTAG (@AStrangerJ) reported from Bromley, England

    On the Freeview “REALLY” channel at 9pm, “Who Killed Jeffery Epstein?”. I’ve never seen it before, but I bet the answers not Jeffrey Epstein.

  • Beige29 DarkBeige (@Beige29) reported from Merton, England

    Now I have the truly truly shit @EE freeview package (literally the worst selection of channels on earth but boy is it cheap broadband) I only watch the main 5 channels or SVOD. W, Dave, ITV2 etc are dead to me

  • shoxtl2 Carl (@shoxtl2) reported from Croydon, England

    @MyHydeHome @SCCIAlphatrack Not even sure how that's possible there's no record anyways over the weekend we lost signal for the communal aerial it has become very weak very pixelated can pick up the Freeview HD channels

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Page_888 Matthew H (@Page_888) reported

    @sgordon_the87 The first set top box we had was a generic DTT box, Freeview launched a few months later, Although the ntl Digital text service featuring subscription channel listings for ITV Digital remained for a good while after Freeview launched, with daily updates.

  • kerrydupont KDP (@kerrydupont) reported

    The sale of Base FM to members of Destiny Church is likely the first step towards a Destiny radio network. A station’s value generally lies within the owned frequencies (and in this case, Freeview presence). Stations pivot their audience all the time.

  • aberfoodblog Tony Jones (@aberfoodblog) reported from Llanychaiarn, Wales

    @RE_Neptune @Gooner725 @BBCiPlayer I'm guessing BBC aren't replying about why they use lower quality audio then Netflix, Sky and even their own Freeview. They went to the trouble of putting #InsideMan in UHD, then used a terrible stereo mix with weirdly loud music.

  • ukfreeviewfilms Movies today on Freeview (UK) (@ukfreeviewfilms) reported

    STARTING SOON : Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) | IMDB: 6.9 | Film4 +1 | 01:50am-4:10am Freeview:47 Sky:314 Virgin:430 BT:45 Freesat:301

  • skierlisa Lisa (@skierlisa) reported

    @TimoBorg13 Very upset as my WiFi is rubbish so I only got 2 mins and it froze on third attempt I have up, could it of been Alex's Buckinghamshire broadband adding to my rubbish area, to give you an idea how bad I have never seen Dave not even on Freeview

  • FreeviewAdvice Freeview Advice (@FreeviewAdvice) reported

    @liambrazier Freeview currently do not offer a wifi only service. You may be able to access the broadcasters apps with wifi only on your Smart TV or set top box. Wifi only apps would not allow you to view live content. Thank you, Melissa

  • andyhotspur14 Andy THFC (@andyhotspur14) reported

    @MichaelBensonn Not a single boxing fan in the world would want to see this fight, especially as most people have never even heard of Charr. This would have to be shown on freeview to get people watching

  • htwcentral Historical Television Website (@htwcentral) reported

    @RossMc11 Though given that '+1' channels are slowly being phased out (especially on Freeview but satellite as well), ITV may see its new ITV X service/on demand as the new replacement. Also of course the ITV2+1/3+1/4+1 'problem' still exists if ITV (1) still stays as ITV...

  • ukfreeviewfilms Movies today on Freeview (UK) (@ukfreeviewfilms) reported

    Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) | IMDB: 6.9 | Film4 | 12:50am-3:10am Freeview:14 Sky:853 Virgin:428 BT:14 Freesat:300

  • 4Viewers 4Viewers (@4Viewers) reported

    @mari_stewart1 Hi Mari, #All4 is not supported on the Android TV OS. If you are experiencing issues accessing All 4 via a Freeview Play service or YouView service in this TV then please let us know.