Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 31,000 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 Salisbury (Wiltshire, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Salisbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Salisbury transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-south-today.jpg)
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-meridian.jpg)
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 44km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||
C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
C23 | _local | ||||||||
C29 | SDN | ||||||||
C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
C62 | SDN | ||||||||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C68 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
Mux D* | (-11.9dB) 640W | |
Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 320W |
Local transmitter maps
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Saturday, 11 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
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SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 on 09 Nov to 16:00 on 09 Nov, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 yesterday to 12:46 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 yesterday to 12:46 yesterday. DAB: BBC Nation [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 yesterday to 12:46 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 on 09 Nov to 16:00 on 09 Nov, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 yesterday to 12:46 yesterday. DAB: BBC Nation [BBC]
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Sunday, 12 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 on 09 Nov to 16:00 on 09 Nov, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov. DAB: BBC Nation [BBC]
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Monday, 13 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 on 09 Nov to 16:00 on 09 Nov, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov. DAB: BBC Nation [BBC]
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Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:13 on 10 Nov to 12:46 on 10 Nov. [BBC]
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Sunday, 19 November 2017
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Andy Rollins6:37 PM
StevensOnln1: we live in laverstock salisbury Sp11RZ and for a while now we have had signal problems on every channel apart from the HD channels.
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StevensOnln16:46 PM
Andy Rollins: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections? What signal strength and quality readings do you get on BBC1, ITV and BBC1HD? There has been recent engineering work at the Salisbury transmitter, however that looks to have been completed on 10th November.
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Thursday, 23 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
SALISBURY transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 02:03 today to 02:07 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 23:51 yesterday to 23:57 yesterday. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
SALISBURY transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 23:51 yesterday to 23:57 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 02:03 today to 02:07 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 24 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
SALISBURY transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 23:51 on 22 Nov to 23:57 on 22 Nov, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 02:03 yesterday to 02:07 yesterday. [BBC]
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