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Freeview Light on the Rhondda (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Rhondda (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter which serves 13,200 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 Rhondda (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Rhondda 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
 H -20dB
C23 (490.0MHz)
362mDTG-1,000W
10W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
 H -20dB
C26 (514.0MHz)
362mDTG-1,000W
10W
Channel icons
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 (Wales), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
 H -20dB
C29 (538.0MHz)
362mDTG-1,000W
10W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD Wales, 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 110 Channel 4 HD (Wales), 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 Rhondda (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Rhondda transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 22km southeast (134°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 23km southeast (146°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Rhondda (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1330 Jun 2019-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesD3+4D3+4
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 2.5kW
PSB1||, PSB2||, PSB3||(-4dB) 1000W
PSB1≡, PSB2≡, PSB3≡(-24dB) 10W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Wenvoe transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech 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. Rhondda 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
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
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r jeynes
10:50 AM

my tv has been off for 48hrs,so has my neighbour.both of us have digiboxes and indoor aerials. has there any problem with recieving signals

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Thursday, 6 January 2011
Briantist
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7:52 AM

r jeynes: No problems are reported, but you should probably expect this with an indoor aerial. Freeview requires a rooftop aerial for reliable reception. Please can you see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?

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Thursday, 5 May 2011
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JAYNE BENNETT
6:12 PM
Treorchy

I have no signal on any of my tv's.
I have an ariel on the front of my house plus 1 in the attic.

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Briantist
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8:17 PM

JAYNE BENNETT: There was a fault, see above.

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Wednesday, 2 May 2012
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chunkylover57
12:57 PM
Tonypandy

i have freeview from Porth transmitter
why do i only get crappy channels ... but my mate in tonyrefail gets them all (Dave etc)

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Dave Lindsay
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7:00 PM

chunkylover57: The channels you do not get are the Commercial ones and the broadcasters have decided not to bother with the Porth transmitter and over 1,000 similar small "filler-in" relays nationwide. They operate on a profit driven basis and cover 90% of the population from 81 of the largest transmitter sites (largest by viewer population). To transmit from the 1,000 plus relays would roughly double their cost of transmission whilst only adding 8.5% of the population to their potential viewer base.

For a more in-depth explanation, see here:

Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Saturday, 15 December 2012
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Jade
9:44 PM

It's a disgrace that they will not provide us with full freeview chanels.
We pay the same as those who have them all.
Not nice.

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jb38
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11:27 PM

Jade: If you are referring to the Rhondda transmitters being for PSB only purposes then the programmes you are missing are not in any way connected with the licence fee, as they are purely commercial enterprises that only operate on the basis of profit expected, this in the same way as a National supermarket chain will not open a store anywhere that is not expected to return a high enough level of profit.

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Tuesday, 19 December 2017
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paula Deverill
6:29 PM

will an indoor aerial work in the Tonypandy area,my roof to one has been affected by scaffolding around it

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Wednesday, 20 December 2017
MikeP
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6:18 PM

paula Deverill:

It might work in some parts of Tonypandy. Look at the map near the top of this page and zoom in, but not so far that the green area disappears, and find your location. If it is in the green area then it may work. If you are in either the yellow area or not coloured then it will not work at all.

Set top aerials are usually cheap, but not very good at getting signals. They are also afected by people moving around the room, even next door!



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