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The symbol shows the location of the Deiniolen (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter which serves 1,800 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 Deiniolen (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Deiniolen 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
C22 (482.0MHz)359mDTG-8W
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
C25 (506.0MHz)359mDTG-8W
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
C28 (530.0MHz)359mDTG-8W
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?

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The Deiniolen (Gwynedd, 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 Deiniolen transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 192km south-southeast (162°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 195km south-southeast (163°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Deiniolen (Gwynedd, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1314 Nov 2018
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCABBCA
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCBBBCB
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 21 Oct 09 and 18 Nov 09.

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

Analogue 1-4 40W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 8W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Llanddona 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. Deiniolen 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
Friday, 13 July 2012
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Adam Whitehouse
10:47 AM

Why do we receive so few channels from this transmitter, with no plans to upgrade our service, when people living 3 miles away can get upto 100 channels and only have the same equipement as us and pay the same license fee. If I rotate my aerial to cover Southern Ireland over 60 miles away I can get many more great if I understood gaelic, but am limited to 15 or so from the mast 300 yards up my road, a few of which are duplicate channels.

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Dave Lindsay
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11:21 AM

Adam Whitehouse: The Commercial multiplexes do not have as wide a coverage as the Public Service ones. They decide where to site their transmitters and have done so at 81 of the largest (by viewer population). This gives them a coverage of 90% of the population. For them to broadcast from the 1,000 or so small relays including Deiniolen, would double their cost of transmission whilst only adding 8.5% of the population to their potential viewer base.

They make money by showing advertising to as many viewers as possible which they aquire at lowest possible cost. They have no "Public Service" obligation". It is not surprising that they don't consider the relays worthwhile.

The Licence fee goes to the BBC which is a Public Service Broadcaster. I do not agree with any suggestion that it should receive less from viewers which the Commercial broadcasters don't wish to serve. In such cases, with less to choose from, there may be more reliance on the BBC.

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KMJ,Derby
sentiment_satisfiedGold

11:26 AM

Adam Whitehouse: The smaller relay transmitters are public service transmitters and are provided at considerable cost (relative to the number of viewers served) for the supply of BBC channels plus ITV1, C4 and C5 which are the commercially funded public service channels. The extra channels on mux D3+4 are a bonus provided using spare capacity on the mux. The owners of the COM muxes were invited to extend coverage to other sites at switchover, but declined due to the extra cost. Ofcom only required that coverage for the COM muxes would be at least as good after switchover as had been provided on the original low power transmitters.

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KMJ,Derby
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11:32 AM

Adam Whitehouse: I should, of course, have included S4C in the list of public service channels for Wales.

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Saturday, 25 January 2014
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RB
9:40 PM

Hi,

The is the transmitter still down? Was the outage from this afternoon related to stormy weather? When will the transmitter be back up and running?

Many thanks,

RB

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Saturday, 12 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_satisfiedGold

11:20 AM

DEINIOLEN transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 12 Oct 08:53 until 12 Oct 09:00. . [BBC]

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