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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 00:05

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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:

  • 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?

  • 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!

  • 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

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

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

  • maggieinlondon Maggie - wear a mask 💙🏳️‍🌈🌱 (@maggieinlondon) reported from Wandsworth, England

    With all this wall to wall coverage crap of a dead man by @skynews and @bbcnews Netflix and Freeview's viewing figures must be the highest they've ever been.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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😡

  • 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.

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

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

  • MartinC93414706 Martin (@MartinC93414706) reported from Lambeth, England

    @channel5_tv is the worst for catch up tv via your app or freeview. Just can’t find programmes sometimes. Trying to find Sally Lindsays posh sleepover. C4, itv and BBC never ever have a problem with. I give up with C5

  • Dante_Banks Danté Banks (@Dante_Banks) reported from Tottenham, England

    @tinytwink The poor shouldn't have anything they have to work for. Big screen TV - nope. Netflix - what's wrong with Freeview? Mobile phone - can't they walk to the phone box on the corner that was disconnected five years ago. They think if you're poor you should suffer or not be poor.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

    I will never have normal freeview tv

  • 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.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • LythgoeRonald Ronald Lythgoe (@LythgoeRonald) reported

    @Patrici89225734 A TV Licence covers you to: Watch or record TV on any channel on any TV service (like Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview). Watch live on streaming services (like ITVX, All 4, YouTube and Amazon Prime Video). Use BBC iPlayer.

  • BlobWarriorUK Neil Hughes (@BlobWarriorUK) reported

    @RoundLike I mainly used to watch it on Freeview. YouTube just doesn't work well.

  • LythgoeRonald Ronald Lythgoe (@LythgoeRonald) reported

    @Patrici89225734 A TV Licence covers you to: Watch or record TV on any channel on any TV service (like Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview). Watch live on streaming services (like ITVX, All 4, YouTube and Amazon Prime Video). Use BBC iPlayer.

  • LythgoeRonald Ronald Lythgoe (@LythgoeRonald) reported

    @Patrici89225734 A TV Licence covers you to: Watch or record TV on any channel on any TV service (like Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview). Watch live on streaming services (like ITVX, All 4, YouTube and Amazon Prime Video). Use BBC iPlayer.

  • BlobWarriorUK Neil Hughes (@BlobWarriorUK) reported

    @RoundLike I mainly used to watch it on Freeview. YouTube just doesn't work well.

  • BlobWarriorUK Neil Hughes (@BlobWarriorUK) reported

    @RoundLike I mainly used to watch it on Freeview. YouTube just doesn't work well.

  • JasonSt44940936 Jason Steele (@JasonSt44940936) reported

    @beard_row17975 @Twilight_Taiyo Channels put Freeview to shame and CN was one and it switched off at 9PM and became TNT ironically though WCW gave the UK free TV but never PPV's in 2000 all WWE PPV's were free in the UK, it was supposed to be only for Sky sport customers but a Free Channel showed it.on an hour

  • JasonSt44940936 Jason Steele (@JasonSt44940936) reported

    @beard_row17975 @Twilight_Taiyo Channels put Freeview to shame and CN was one and it switched off at 9PM and became TNT ironically though WCW gave the UK free TV but never PPV's in 2000 all WWE PPV's were free in the UK, it was supposed to be only for Sky sport customers but a Free Channel showed it.on an hour

  • LythgoeRonald Ronald Lythgoe (@LythgoeRonald) reported

    @Patrici89225734 A TV Licence covers you to: Watch or record TV on any channel on any TV service (like Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview). Watch live on streaming services (like ITVX, All 4, YouTube and Amazon Prime Video). Use BBC iPlayer.

  • LythgoeRonald Ronald Lythgoe (@LythgoeRonald) reported

    @Patrici89225734 A TV Licence covers you to: Watch or record TV on any channel on any TV service (like Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview). Watch live on streaming services (like ITVX, All 4, YouTube and Amazon Prime Video). Use BBC iPlayer.