Freeview Light on the Combe Martin (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Combe Martin (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 1,200 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 Combe Martin (Devon, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Combe Martin (Devon, England) 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 Freeview channels does the Combe Martin 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 192m | DTG- | 70W |
 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 | C39 (618.0MHz) | 192m | DTG- | 70W |
 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C45 (666.0MHz) | 192m | DTG- | 70W |
 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Combe Martin (Devon, England) 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 Combe Martin transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 90km south (186°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 90km south (182°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the Combe Martin (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 30 Jun 2019- | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 |
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, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 70W |
Local transmitter maps
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
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P T Chapman12:24 PM
Why is it we cannot get 'Dave', ITV 3 & ITV4 in Combe Martin, after all we still pay the same licence fee?
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P T Chapman: Payment of the licence fee does not guarantee receipt of signals at all.
In any case, the channels Dave, ITV3 and ITV4 operate on a commercial basis whereby they only put up transmitters where they wish. In order to broadcast from over 1,000 relays, including Combe Martin, it would roughly double the cost of transmission whilst only giving them another 6% of the population to watch the adverts.
See here for a fuller explanation:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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P T Chapman: As Combe Martin faces Wales you might be able to receive from one of the transmitters there which do broadcast the commercial multiplexes.
You would keep your existing aerial on your local relay for regional programming and have a second aerial for commercial channels like Dave and ITV4.
Look around at the rooftops; you might see others have done the same thing.
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Thursday, 22 March 2012
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m membury6:25 PM
when is the telly coming back on combe martin this is madness now i have 120 complaining that no telly all day pull your fingers out
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
m membury: The services were off until 5pm due to a fault.
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Tuesday, 22 February 2022
There is no BBC in Combe Martin at present. Service is not running message appears on screen.
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Chris.SE11:33 PM
Robert France:
Which BBC service as you missing, is it the SD channels or the HD ones?
Are you getting ITV/Ch4/Ch5 channels ok?
I can't find any faults listed for the transmitter, nor is it currently listed for Planned Engineering.
Have you checked the connections behind your TV and made sure the aerial is correctly plugged in?
It would be worth you looking at your aerial and making sure it looks intact - hasn't lost any bits in the recent wind, and that it's pointing due N with its rods (or squashed Xs) vertical.
If for some reason you lost signal, if you retuned whilst that was the case it may have just cleared the correct tuning.
Look in your TV tuning section and make sure you are tuned to UHF channels C42, C39 & C45 for the Combe Martin transmitter.
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