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The symbol shows the location of the Boscastle (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Boscastle (Cornwall, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Boscastle 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
C25 (506.0MHz)125mDTG-11W
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
C22 (482.0MHz)125mDTG-11W
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
C28 (530.0MHz)125mDTG-11W
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?

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the effected channels

The Boscastle (Cornwall, 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 Boscastle transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 53km southeast (131°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 58km southeast (126°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the Boscastle (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1330 Jun 2019-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C22D3+4D3+4
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C25BBCABBCA
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C28BBCBBBCB
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
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 8 Jul 09 and 5 Aug 09.

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

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 11W
Analogue 1-4(-3.4dB) 5W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth 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. Boscastle 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, 20 October 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:57 AM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:17 yesterday to 14:19 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:17 yesterday to 14:19 yesterday [BBC]

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Friday, 21 October 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:59 AM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:17 on 19 Oct to 14:19 on 19 Oct HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:17 on 19 Oct to 14:19 on 19 Oct [BBC]

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Thursday, 29 December 2011
Transmitter engineering
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12:34 PM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 11:28 today BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 today [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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1:30 PM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 11:28 today BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 today to 12:38 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 today to 12:38 today [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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5:32 PM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 today to 12:38 today BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:39 today to 14:40 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 today to 12:38 today [BBC]

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John Davis
8:05 PM

BBC Reception Advice - Case number CAS-1210657-7J93P6

Hi James

Thanks for replying to my enquiry

I have now had a chance to enquire of my neighbours who use the signal from the Boscastle aerial rather than via satellite.

They too have been experiencing problems with all BBC channels, like us the reception and sound is often so badly distorted that it cannot be viewed and at times the signal fails altogether.
This happens on all of the BBC channels but not on the Independent channels.

If the Independent channels can provide us with an adequate signal from the Boscastle transmitter why can't the BBC?

We have had adequate reception of BBC channels up until about a week before Christmas then it failed, over the three days of Christmas it improved with just the odd pixellation , but then Tuesday and yesterday it was markedly worse only holding steady for a few minutes before breaking up, and yesterday the BBC1 & BBC2 signal disappeared altogether.

I had arranged for a tv engineer to visit tomorrow to check out our aerial on the strength of what BBC was telling me that there wasn't a problem, but fortunately I have been able to cancel him, as clearly the problem lies with the BBC signal and not with our equipment.

I hope to hear from you soon that the problem has been found and rectified.

Regards
John

PS I see now that, despite assurances that the problem was with my equipment,work is now being carried out on the Boscastle transmitter.
I trust that this will now correct the problems we've had over the last week or so.

John

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Friday, 30 December 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:30 AM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:39 yesterday to 14:40 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday [BBC]

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9:29 AM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:39 yesterday to 14:40 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday [BBC]

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1:31 PM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:39 yesterday to 14:40 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:42 today to 11:44 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday [BBC]

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3:33 PM

BOSCASTLE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:42 today to 11:44 today BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:39 yesterday to 14:40 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:45 yesterday to 12:38 yesterday [BBC]

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