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The symbol shows the location of the Henley-on-Thames (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 5,200 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Henley-on-Thames (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Henley-on-Thames 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
C41 (634.0MHz)157mDTG-20W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) London, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)157mDTG-20W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (London), 4 Channel 4 (SD) London ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 London ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (London), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)157mDTG-20W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD London, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV London), 104 Channel 4 HD London 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 Henley-on-Thames (Oxfordshire, England) 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 Henley-on-Thames transmitter?

regional news image
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 51km east (90°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
regional news image
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 53km east (90°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.

How will the Henley-on-Thames (Oxfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1318 Apr 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C47BBCB
C48BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C49tv_offD3+4
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C58tv_offBBCA
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C67ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves

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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.

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

Analogue 1-4 100W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 20W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area

Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated-Rediffusion†
Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1992Thames†
Jul 1968-Feb 2004London Weekend Television♦
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Carlton†
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc♦
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. Henley-on-Thames 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
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
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Lee Thomson
10:27 PM

TV signal out at approx 21:30. Called local friends who also had no signal. 03.08.16

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Thursday, 4 August 2016
MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

1:17 PM

Lee Thomson:

Assuming that you receive signals from the Henley transmitter, the two posts below yours shows why this may be.

If you provide a full post code for your location, or that of a very nearby public building such as a post office or shop, then it would be possible to confirm which transmitter is the most likely.



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Saturday, 6 August 2016
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Peter
4:47 PM

Are there still Henley on Thames transmitter problems?
Continually getting reception dropping in and out
I usually get about 60% signal strength, but it just drops to nothing, then back up!

Regards

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Sunday, 30 September 2018
B
Babs Towner
8:19 AM

All this week our television has been cutting out with sound and picture .Every day I have retuned the televisions and the next day it does the same thing.What else can I do ? I have small children wanting to watch TV it's impossible to follow anything.






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MikeP
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11:13 AM

Babs Towner:

You clearly have some aerial feed problems so please check all your aerial cables and connections. If there are coaxial plugs and sockets then unplugh those and refit. That will clear any corrosion/oxidation from the contacts which is a common cause of the problems you describe. DO NOT KEEP RETUNING, all that will do is lose the channels you currently have and will not resolve the loss of one or more channels.

Please provide your full post code, as requested in the text above the entry box you used, so that we contributors can look at the expected reception conditions at your location.



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Thursday, 21 May 2020
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Lorraine Hillier
9:02 PM

Lost signal at around 9.55pm. Just resumed but keeps going off.

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Chris.SE
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10:48 PM

Lorraine Hillier:

I can't find any reports of problems with the Henley relay transmitter (but things may be slower in the current situation).

There is some "Tropospheric Ducting" around at present, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | Help receiving TV and radio which may affect some parts of the country from time to time, this could be causing interference from more distant transmitters and might be the cause of your intermittent loss of signal if you aren't in a particularly good reception location. We'd need a full postcode to see what the Freeview Detailed Coverage Checker is giving for your predicted reception.

It's NOT a good idea to retune in such circumstances as most of the time it just loses the correctly tuned channels or ends up picking up another transmitter (the wrong region or foreign) and you have to repeat the retune when conditions change.

Other than that you could check for any loose connections at you aerial socket, coax plugs, fly leads etc. Always worth checking that your aerial appears intact and is pointing in the right direction.

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