Freeview Light on the Bath (Bath and North East Somerset, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bath (Bath and North East Somerset, England) transmitter which serves 24,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Bath (Bath and North East Somerset, England) mast?
Bath transmitter - Bath transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Bath (Bath and North East Somerset, 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 Bath 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 | C21 (474.0MHz) | 228m | DTG- | 50W |
 1 BBC One (SD) West, 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) | 228m | DTG- | 50W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 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 (West), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C27 (522.0MHz) | 228m | DTG- | 50W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 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 Bath (Bath and North East Somerset, 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 Bath transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 21km west-northwest (294°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 17km west-northwest (291°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Claverton | Active deflector | 4.5 km E Bath | 40 homes |
How will the Bath (Bath and North East Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 5 Jun 2019 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C6 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C8 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C24 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C27 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C32 | 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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Thursday, 15 March 2012
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Nicholas Willmott12:36 PM
Thanks for the list Briantist. At first sight there seems no logic to the order of the relay names, but by looking at individual ones I can see they are arranged in the order of homes served, largest number to smallest number.
Earlier I spotted that Selkirk (a main transmitter) serves 24,000 homes, and has all 6 muxes. Therefore it's only right that Bath relay which serves a much smaller land area but just as many homes, 24,000, deserves 6 muxes too.
At the very least Ofcom should have insisted on SDN and Arqiva putting COM4, COM5 and COM6 on the first twenty relays on the list, as they each serve more homes than certain 6-mux main transmitters! After some trawling around UK Free TV and Wikipedia, I've found that Bressay (main transmitter for the Shetland Islands) serves just 5,300 homes! Nonetheless it still carries all 6 muxes. Even Bacup, the last relay listed above, covers 5,500 homes, which is more than Bressay, yet it's only got 3 PSB muxes. Where's the fairness in that?
Ideally all those said 120 relays should have got the full Freeview service.
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Nicholas Willmott1:15 PM
(continuation of my previous post) Or to put it another way, why didn't Ofcom insist that SDN and Arqiva put the COM muxes on every then analogue-only transmitter / relay serving 10,000+ homes at the applicable DSO date?
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Nicholas Willmott: The question should surely be, does Ofcom have the Statutory powers to require the operators to broadcast from all relay sites (assuming that there are channels available)?
The other thing is that if the current Commercial operators were to have broadcast from all sites (or as many as there are spare channels for), then it's likely that the channels in the 30s, cleared for the future three licences (COM7, COM8 and COM9) would have had to be used for them. This would mean that there would be no auction and therefore no revenue from the sale of the COM7, 8 and 9 licences for wherever such monies go.
Out of interest, where does the revenue from Commercial licences go, the Chancellor?
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Mike Dimmick4:34 PM
Dave Lindsay: No, Ofcom don't have the power. When the multiplexes are originally advertised, applications must be accompanied by a technical plan listing the parts of the proposed area that will be covered, the timetable for achieving it and the means by which it will be achieved [Broadcasting Act 1996, 7(4)(b)]. The original technical plans only listed those 80 sites and that's all that is required.
The selection of those 80 sites were those that were easiest - main sites in the analogue network (50 sites) - and those covering important locations not otherwise served. Selkirk was a main analogue transmitter, so was included despite the relatively low population coverage. Some of the transmitters in the Scottish Highlands & Islands have even fewer viewers.
Ofcom then only have the power to vary the multiplex licence IF the operator agrees to it. [Section 3(4)(b) and 12(2)]. The exception is that when the multiplex is due for renewal, they can require a new technical plan, and specify requirements for that plan [16(4)]. Licences last 12 years.
The SDN licence was issued in 1998 and therefore was due for renewal in 2010, and was renewed with no changes to the technical plan. The ArqA and ArqB licences (C and D) were originally held by onDigital/ITV Digital and were handed back in 2002 when ITV Digital went into administration. They were then re-auctioned in a beauty contest. They run until 2014. However, Arqiva have already applied, and Ofcom have already agreed, to renew them on their existing terms.
Had the operators decided to take up the offer of the other sites, the frequency plan would have been drawn up to accommodate them in the spectrum retained for broadcasting: the lower released spectrum, C31-C38, would still have been released. Chances are that some smaller relays would have been shut down.
The Broadcasting Act allows the collection of a percentage of multiplex revenue. However, so far, that percentage has been set at zero. The only amounts paid have been the fees for applying for and renewing the licences, which were (I think) £25,000. Ofcom have stated an intention to start applying Administered Incentive Pricing from 2014.
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Monday, 21 May 2012
Hearing reports on twitter that this transmitter is currently offline... I'm not home so unable to confirm.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
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Lucy Harris10:36 PM
Warm weather, no picture/signal, as usual. Never had this with analogue, so sick of this. Paying for licence, no picture in certain weather conditions. Constant retuning does nothing.
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Mark Fletcher11:19 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Lucy Harris.If as you state you are fed up of Freeview TV,go for Freesat.
Either that or if you are affluent (wealthy) enough and there is Virgin Media in your area,opt for Cable TV instead.
Cable TV does have its advantanges,less or no interference whatsoever,and its all digital too.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
This transmitter appears to be intermittently offline, according to reports in Bath.
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Liam's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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AC3:23 PM
Tyical isn't it - the Bath transmitter is out of action on the day of Murray's big match at Wimbledon! In light of this couldn't engineering works have been delayed for a day or two.
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Thursday, 30 August 2012
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Philip Dent10:26 AM
Bath
There is no free view signal at BA26QB. I have tried retuning and the TV tells me "No signal"
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