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The symbol shows the location of the Ivybridge (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 6,200 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Ivybridge (Devon, England) mast?

Ivybridge transmitter - Ivybridge transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/04/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Ivybridge 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
C33 (570.0MHz)192mDTG-50W
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
C36 (594.0MHz)192mDTG-50W
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
C48- (689.8MHz)192mDTG-50W
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 Ivybridge (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 Ivybridge transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 14km west (280°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 7km west-northwest (291°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

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

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1310 Apr 2019
B E TB E TB E TB E TK T
C33BBCA
C34ArqB
C35ArqA
C36D3+4
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesSDN
C40 
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C48-BBCBBBCB
C49tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C52tv_offBBCA

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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.

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

Analogue 1-4 250W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill 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. Ivybridge 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
Sunday, 2 September 2012
K
KMJ,Derby
sentiment_satisfiedGold

12:57 PM

Terry: After much thought, Ofcom decided that the relay masts which carried four or five analogue public service transmitters would all continue to transmit the PSB services after DSO. Hence the Freeview Lite status for Ivybridge. The licence fee pays for the transmission of the BBC channels; ITV, C4 and channel Five are each required to pay for their share of PSB2 and any use of PSB3.The requirement for the owners of the COM muxes was that coverage should be at least as good after switchover as it had been before. This meant in practice that existing sites were maintained, with a significant power increase on the largest transmitters where the number of extra viewers served justified the additional cost. This places the onus on the viewer to use the correct aerial where a main station overlaps with a relay station and reception of the COM muxes is required. Otherwise satellite reception is often possible in areas not served by a main transmitter. With regard to the Rabbit services, the capacity taken up on the mux by text services is very small, certainly not the amount necessary to support another TV channel such as Film4.

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KMJ,Derby's 1,811 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
T
Terry
1:16 AM
Ivybridge

Hi KMJ... many thanks for your kind, considered and informative response which is sensible but I still find the whole business does not make sense. I understand what you are saying but there is essentially something very undemocratic and unjust about what is going on here... think beyond MUX and COM and all that... why when we pay the same as the rest of the country do we get a "budget" service... I realise there are many other areas that only receive Freeview Lite...it was always initially advertised as just Freeview... no mention of Lite? I'll just have to wait until November when the trees opposite have shed their leaves and our satellite signal comes through again...!

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Tuesday, 18 September 2012
B
Barry Grose
12:57 PM

The Ivybridge transmitter has been off air for the last 2 hours, not as stated at the top of this page. Any idea how much longer it will be off air please.

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KMJ,Derby
sentiment_satisfiedGold

1:09 PM

Barry Grose: The BBC transmitter status report shows Ivybridge off air since 10:23. There is no time shown for an expected resumption of service.

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KMJ,Derby's 1,811 posts GB flag
Saturday, 22 December 2012
R
Roger
2:42 PM

Is there any news about us being upgraded to the full Freeview service or will we always have Freeview Lite ??

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Roger's 1 post GB flag
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:45 PM

Roger: No, it isn't ever likely. See here for an explanation:

Londonderry transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Friday, 28 December 2012
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nicol edwards
5:32 PM

Ivybridge free view transmitter is not working. Have checked with several households all over the village.

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

6:06 PM

nicol edwards: Try your TV again.

BBC says it was off from 16:58 to 17:31 and is therefore now back on:

BBC - Reception problems

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Monday, 14 April 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

11:21 AM

IVYBRIDGE transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Tuesday, 15 April 2014
S
STEPHEN PARTNER
8:35 PM
Ivybridge

15 April 2020
no signal for any TV station
checked all cables
pl21 9hh

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