Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 410,000 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 Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Oxford 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Oxford transmitter?
BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 6km west-southwest (258°)
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 102km south (182°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 23 May 2018 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | _local | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | LOX | LOX | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | |||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 14 Sep 11 and 28 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-11dB) 40kW | |
| com8 | (-14.7dB) 17.1kW | |
| com7 | (-14.8dB) 16.4kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LOX | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-18dB) 8kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B* | (-19.2dB) 6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Monday, 3 June 2013
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Mike Dimmick6:30 PM
Briantist: Note that by the current Meridian licence, ITV are allowed to run the Oxford/Hannington ('Meridian West') service as an opt-out from the Meridian South (Southampton) service. The Meridian licence requires 2 hours per week for the West and East sub-regions, on weekdays, out of 3 hours 45 per week for the region as a whole. I believe they do run it as an opt-out, but I haven't watched it in years, and you can't get to it on the web version of ITV Player.
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KMJ,Derby: I realised I should disregard what Wikipedia says as it fails to agree with what is on the official site.
http://www.itvmedia.co.uk….pdf says that just the Hannington trasmitter is called ITV Meridian Thames Valley.
This differs from the "old" ITV Thames Valley which included the Oxford transmitter (and relays).
There is an ITV Thames Valley site - Thames Valley | Meridian - ITV News but this has stories from Brighton on it because it's just a re-feed of "ITV MERIDIAN NEWS IN BRIEF".
It's unclear if just Oxford, or Oxford+Hannington "merged" with the Meridian South [Coast] region.
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Mike Dimmick: Thanks for those. It was the creation and then destruction of the ITV Thames Valley that left me with questions.
ITV don't issue press statements when they remove services.
However they did send this into Ofcom when the C3 (and C5) renewal notice went out
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
"Details of our proposals for news in each area are set out in more detail in the Annexes to this note with a detailed discussion of the overall proposals in Border below. In terms of the flagship peak time regional news programme on a typical week night the proposal would involve the delivery of the following (as the core part
of the 30 minute 6pm programme):
... ITV Meridian: separate 20 minute regional news offerings for each of Meridian East and South with a sub-opt from Meridian South for Thames Valley News -- for viewers around Oxford, Reading and the M4 corridor.
... ITV Central: separate 20 minute regional news offeringsfor each of the east and west sub-regions."
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Mike Dimmick: I think there are some actual answers on the http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf on page 30...
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Mike Dimmick/KMJ,Derby/Paul.: OK... it seems as if the Oxford transmitter is run with Merdian Thames Valley's region's news.
But it seems odd that ITV Sales offers the Central South region as an ad region.
Does this mean that Central South is operated as two sub-sub-regions: one for Oxford (thames Valley News, Central South adverts) and one for Ridge Hill (Central West News, Central South Adverts)?
That would make Ridge Hill very super-served, given that it ALSO has a ITV West extra transmission too - Ridge Hill (ITV West) (County of Herefordshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
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mary t8:18 PM
I have lost all my channels since Wednesday and re-tuning doesn't find any channels.
Do i need a at800 filter for the 800mhz 4G issue - please help!
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Paul10:35 PM
Thanks for correcting this, Briantist.
The text which I was trying to give as evidence was "My TV region
If you get your signal from the Oxford transmitter you are part of the Central ITV region but you will receive the ITV Meridian news service."
Thank you.
Paul.
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Briantist: To quote from the above blog link (from archive.org)
Basically the old Thames Valley Tonight, Meridian Tonight South East, and Meridian Tonight South are all being amalgamated into one programme Meridian Tonight.
The West and East of the new region will each get their own version of Meridian Tonight for the first 15-18 minutes of the six oclock programme, after that the services will merge to cover stories that are relevant to the whole of the region what the jargon calls a pan-regional service.
The West and East part of the region will also get their own dedicated late bulletin usually at 10.30pm. All the other bulletins GMTV, lunch and weekend will be pan-regional.
Inevitably this has meant some reduction in staff, and most visibly it will mean there are only two presenters for two regions, rather than six for three regions.
The new presenting team are Fred Dinenage and Sangeeta Bhabra, and you can see profiles of them on our front page, as well as those of our new family of correspondents on our website - Latest News - ITV News
The other presenters Debbie Thrower, Ian Axton, Wesley Smith and Mary Green have left. And you can read what the official press releases said about them here.
The changes have all been made against a background of massive upheaval in British broadcasting. In a nutshell ITV had an obligation to make regional news as part of the original conditions of its broadcasting licence. But those conditions have been relaxed as a result of the huge number of digital stations now competing for advertising revenue, and the credit squeeze.
This is all part of a big national debate about PSB public service broadcasting, and who should pay for it. The problem is that PSB is EXPENSIVE, and cannot be maintained on a purely commercial basis.
The BBC is obviously paid for by the licence fee, but other PSB providers, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the largest provider, ITV, are asking for either separate funding, or to be released from their obligations. The government is promising to come up with a solution soon. In the meantime economic realities have forced changes across the whole PSB landscape.
Having said all that I do know the team here at Meridian are very good at what they do, and will identify stories of interest to our whole audience, and we still have enough reporter/correspondents to get across the whole patch. We have had to come to grips with new working practices to do this, and reporters now operate cameras and edit their own material. New technology also means we are able to to edit on location or go live and beam reports back to base from anywhere across the patch, using the internet, or any of our three satellite trucks.
Also we will be developing our online services and will hopefully fill any gap viewers may feel has not been filled by the new service.
So as one blogger put it give them a chance we are confident we are still best placed to inform and entertain the viewers of the South and the South East.
Blogged by Jonathan Marland
ITV Meridian Online Editor
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In a video Reports on changes to regional news (ITV Yorkshire and ITV Central South) - 2006 - YouTube they say that Thames Valley is *PART* of the Central South region (3:20).
There's some static weather maps on Thames Valley Tonight: 2006-2007 | TV Live which also Oxfordshire, but not the Ridge Hill area.
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