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The symbol shows the location of the North Bovey (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 800 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the North Bovey (Devon, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the North Bovey transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C46 (674.0MHz)280mDTG-7W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C43 (650.0MHz)280mDTG-7W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West Country),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C39 (618.0MHz)280mDTG-7W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The North Bovey (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the North Bovey transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 38km southwest (222°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 33km south-southwest (213°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the North Bovey (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1319 Jun 2019
B E TB E TB E TB E TB E K T
C39BBCB
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves 
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 1 Jul 09 and 29 Jul 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 34W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 6.8W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Huntshaw Cross transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Westcountry Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. North Bovey was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Transmitter engineering
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4:29 AM

NORTH BOVEY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 08:31 on 03 Jan to 08:53 on 03 Jan HD Digital TV Off Air from 08:31 on 03 Jan to 08:53 on 03 Jan [BBC]

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Monday, 27 April 2015
Transmitter engineering
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9:09 AM

NORTH BOVEY transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 20 July 2015
Transmitter engineering
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10:30 AM

NORTH BOVEY transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 16 May 2016
Transmitter engineering
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10:09 AM

NORTH BOVEY transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 4 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
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9:09 AM

NORTH BOVEY transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
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12:09 AM

NORTH BOVEY transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Thursday, 1 December 2022
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Miles Thompson
10:01 AM

Yesterday (30th November) I was having problems receiving BBC channels from the North Bovey transmitter - the ITV channels were fine. This morning I re-tuned my TV and found that I could receive HD signals on BBC channels - these were not available in the past. Have the old non-HD channels been weakened or changed? If so, it would have been nice to be notified of this change as a few of us are watching a lot of football at the moment!

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Chris.SE
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2:04 PM

Miles Thompson:

Nothing has changed at the transmitter and I can't find any faults currently reported or any in the last 5 days nor is the transmitter listed for Planned Engineering.

The North Bovey transmitter is a very low powered relay and it's possible that your location may give marginal reception.

If you provide a full postcode we can look at your predicted reception and which way the aerial should point.
If you are receiving from this transmitter, the aerial rods (or squashed Xs) should be vertical.

When was the last time you retuned? Has anything changed in your installation since then? Have you had a new aerial etc since June 2019 when the 700MHz Clearance was completed?

Your problems with reception of the BBCA/PSB1 multiplex (SD channels) yesterday is most likely due to current weather conditions causing some "Tropospheric Ducting" resulting in Interference coming from distant transmitters (in Europe or the UK) which is currently affecting some parts of the south and southwest.

Caution: It's never advised to retune if you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this generally just clears the correct tuning! Wait until signals are normal. Retuning will not affect reception is you are already correctly tuned!

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Tuesday, 10 January 2023
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Miles Thompson
4:12 PM

Transmitter engineering: The BBC HD channels from the North Bovey transmitter are not working correctly, it is as if the bandwidth has been compromised to get the SD channels working satisfactorily. The ITV channels seem to be unaffected

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StevensOnln1
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5:45 PM

Miles Thompson: The BBC's HD and SD channels are transmitted on different multiplexes so they cannot be compressing HD channels to fit in SD. The off-air monitoring of PSB3 from Caradon Hill (see link below - North Bovey will be identical) which carries BBC1 HD, BBC2 HD, BBC3 HD, BBC4 HD, CBBC HD, CBeebies HD, ITV1 HD, Channel 4 HD & Channel 5 HD shows them all running at a similar average bitrate. I don't have any other insight into what might be causing your issue

https://www.digitalbitrat…g=en

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