Freeview Light on the Winterbourne Steepleton (Dorset, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Winterbourne Steepleton (Dorset, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Winterbourne Steepleton (Dorset, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Winterbourne Steepleton (Dorset, 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 Freeview channels does the Winterbourne Steepleton 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 162m | DTG- | 2W |
 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 | C45 (666.0MHz) | 162m | DTG- | 2W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 162m | DTG- | 2W |
 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Winterbourne Steepleton (Dorset, 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 Winterbourne Steepleton transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 82km east-northeast (73°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 93km east-northeast (77°)
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 Winterbourne Steepleton (Dorset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| E | E | E | B E K T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C42 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C45 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C49tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 12W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2.4W |
Local transmitter maps
Winterbourne Steepleton Freeview Rowridge TV region BBC South Meridian (South Coast micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
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Tess Alison1:18 PM
I live in Winterbourne Abbas and get my signal from the Winterbourne Steepleton Transmitter. Digital swithchover is not planned for some time yet so we rely on Analogue. For the last few days there has been no picture on BBC2, ITV or Ch4 after midnight. The BBC1 channel is the only one available. Please let me know why.
Thankyou
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KMJ,Derby1:55 PM
Tess Alison: "BBC2 off air DSO related from 00:20 today to 05:33 today" from BBC engineering, posted on the Rowridge transmitter page. It would appear that work is taking place to test the high power digital transmitters at Rowridge, which will use the same frequencies after switchover as analogue BBC2, ITV1 and Channel 4 use currently. BBC1 remains on air as it uses a frequency not used for TV, at least initially, after switchover.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
+++ NO FREEVIEW TONIGHT FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 9AM - then RETUNE - see Switchover "completes" for Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ++++++++==
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Monday, 29 April 2024
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Tess Alison12:38 PM
Transmitter engineering: Winterbourne Steepleton Transmitter; Interference issues with ITV and Channel 4 Channels in the DT2 area of Winterbourne Abbas, 24th - 29th April. Freeview reset procedure has been followed. Interference continues. Engineering work was scheduled for the 24th April. Are there still problems with this transmitter please?
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Chris.SE1:11 PM
Tess Alison:
There is a report that the Transmitter was off-air From 12:18pm to 12:21pm on 29th Apr 2024 due to Essential Engineering.
I hope you did NOT carry out the Freeview "Reset" procedure whilst you had either NO Signal or badly pixellated pictures. You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded.
The usual result is to just clear your correct tuning, you may even get tuned to weak signals from another transmitter which won't be reliable..
As you haven't given a full postcode, we can't advise which transmitter may be best in your location as some parts of the area can receive more than one transmitter. Without that we can't we advise if you may be subject to other interference.
Check in your TV tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Winterbourne Steepleton's UHF channels which are C39, C45 & C42 (the latter for the HD channels). Once you are correctly tuned, leave it alone - it doesn't matter whether the signals disappear or are pixellated due to faults, engineering or weather conditions, you just have to be patient.
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Wednesday, 1 May 2024
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J Hobbs7:43 PM
We have been having buffering/ pixels breaking up
For almost a week now on ITV, CH4 and CH5
and it's driving me crazy!
Please can someone fix it.
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Thursday, 2 May 2024
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Chris.SE6:12 AM
J Hobbs:
Please read the two posts before yours. There's obviously been a fault and engineering work is being carried out. Do NOT retune.
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