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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 01/17/2026 12:20

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (92%)

    TV (92%)

  2. Total Blackout (4%)

    Total Blackout (4%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  6. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Balham, Greater London, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Hammersmith, London, Coulsdon, Hampton, City of Westminster, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Surbiton, Walton-on-Thames, Fulham, Croydon, Harringay and Poplar.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomHammersmith TV
United KingdomLondon TV
United KingdomCoulsdon TV
United KingdomHampton TV
United KingdomCity of Westminster TV
United KingdomWaltham Forest TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Balham, England

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

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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😡

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • XtopherCalvert Christmas Calvert (he/him) (@XtopherCalvert) reported from Poplar, England

    Question for arts people. We don’t use Freeview as our signal is much more reliable using Apple TV through our internet connection. Is there a way I can get @SkyArts via Apple TV?

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

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

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

  • coulson3000 Hank Moody (@coulson3000) reported from Kensington, England

    I will never have normal freeview tv

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

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

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • dmodeboy Stevie 🏳️‍🌈 (@dmodeboy) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice Hi. I'm in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and my freeview is pretty unwatchable. I keep retuning but it makes no difference. Earlier I had no ITV which is ridiculous. Can you please help?

  • DinkNewman Dink670 #TeamLH44 #IStandWithLewisHamilton🇺🇦 (@DinkNewman) reported

    @SmithsonianTVUK please help! I want to watch on Freeview play but channel 56 is showing as 5Select and not you! Any ideas?

  • QUIGGYPAULS paul quigley (@QUIGGYPAULS) reported

    @JamesMelville Life is like Freeview TV, they make it so **** that you don't want it anymore.

  • FreeFilmsUK FreeFilms UK (@FreeFilmsUK) reported

    Horrible luck, tomorrow's showing of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) starring Hayden Christensen as Roger Rabbit has been cancelled due to Professor Dumbledore shitting on all the cats he could find. #freeview

  • SkyNews Sky News (@SkyNews) reported

    Is Keir Starmer the UK’s next prime minister? What would he do with the keys to Number 10 and how would he fix the country’s problems? 🔴 Watch the Labour leader live on @RidgeOnSunday tomorrow at 🕣 8.30am 👉 #Ridge 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

  • evilniamh SpecialGuestVillainess🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 (@evilniamh) reported

    @JoEdwards41 If you have freeview, they're shown on Sky Arts, I thought I'd watched them all but had never seen this one. It's a freaky aul theme innit?

  • Otisbragg Martin McCann (@Otisbragg) reported

    Crap- the Smithsonian Channel now no longer available on Freeview now either...

  • SkyNews Sky News (@SkyNews) reported

    Is Keir Starmer the UK’s next prime minister? What would he do with the keys to Number 10 and how would he fix the country’s problems? 🔴 Watch the Labour leader live on @RidgeOnSunday today at 🕣 8.30am 👉 #Ridge 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

  • gz4216 SevenDaysToNoon (@gz4216) reported

    @Josneat @FreeviewAdvice I’m betting it’s the usual high pressure issue. When I lose my Freeview I use a link I’ve got saved to a high pressure map. If it’s high. That’s the reason it’s down. No point in contacting Freeview “support” as they are about as much use as a chocolate ashtray on a motorcycle!

  • philirelandlfc Philireland (@philirelandlfc) reported

    @BoltDogg @LGUK @LGUKCare Honestly all tvs r made in the same factory bar from a few, Sony make there own tvs so they make them right, friend got a LG and we put the freeview on and it was terrible quality TV, I got myself a Sony for a few pound more and in so glad I did, best TV I have ever owned.