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The symbol shows the location of the Aldbourne (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 700 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 Aldbourne (Wiltshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Aldbourne 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
C27 (522.0MHz)169mDTG-2W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 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
C24 (498.0MHz)169mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 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 (Meridian south coast),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C21 (474.0MHz)169mDTG-2W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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 Aldbourne (Wiltshire, 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 Aldbourne transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 65km south-southeast (166°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 72km south-southeast (157°)
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 Aldbourne (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1330 Jun 2018-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.

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

Analogue 1-4 7W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-5.4dB) 2W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-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. Aldbourne 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.

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Saturday, 17 January 2015
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4:31 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:26 yesterday to 04:35 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:46 on 14 Jan to 05:16 on 14 Jan. [BBC]

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Sunday, 18 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
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4:32 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:26 on 16 Jan to 04:35 on 16 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:46 on 14 Jan to 05:16 on 14 Jan. [BBC]

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Monday, 19 January 2015
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4:31 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:26 on 16 Jan to 04:35 on 16 Jan. [BBC]

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Monday, 20 April 2015
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10:30 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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1:30 PM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:21 today to 10:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:21 today to 10:21 today. [BBC] RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Tuesday, 21 April 2015
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4:30 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:21 yesterday to 10:21 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:21 yesterday to 10:21 yesterday. [BBC] RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Wednesday, 22 April 2015
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4:30 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:21 on 20 Apr to 10:21 on 20 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:21 on 20 Apr to 10:21 on 20 Apr. [BBC] RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Thursday, 7 May 2015
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7:30 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 05:37 today to 05:45 today. [BBC]

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Friday, 8 May 2015
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ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 05:37 yesterday to 05:45 yesterday. [BBC]

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Saturday, 9 May 2015
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4:30 AM

ALDBOURNE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 05:37 on 07 May to 05:45 on 07 May. [BBC]

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