Full Freeview on the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) mast?
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, 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 Bristol Kings Weston 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, 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 Bristol Kings Weston transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-points-west.jpg)
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 5km southeast (140°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-west-west.jpg)
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 9km southeast (133°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Bristol Kings Weston (City of Bristol, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | E T | W T | K T | |||
C22 | SDN | ||||||||
C25 | ArqA | ||||||||
C28 | ArqB | ||||||||
C30 | LBS | LBS | |||||||
C31 | _local | ||||||||
C40 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C43 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||||
C45 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C46 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
C48 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C50tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
C52tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C53tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
C57tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
C60tv_off | -ArqB | -ArqB |
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 | 1000W | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200W | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 100W | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, LBS | (-17dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
Bristol Kings Weston Freeview Bristol Kings Weston DAB Mendip TV region BBC West WestWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Friday, 31 January 2020
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StevensOnln17:08 PM
Mrs Humphreys: TBN has moved to the PSB3 multiplex which carries BBC 1 HD, BBC 2 HD, ITV HD, Channel 4 HD, Channel 5 HD & CBBC HD and can only be received on TVs which receive these HD channels. If your sister-in-law can receive those HD channels, she should be able to restore TBN by retuning.
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Wednesday, 29 December 2021
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Mr Castle6:12 PM
I have also lost TBN and can i ask please until a few days ago i was getting the HD channels and that makes no sense because it says this transmitter does not transmit them, did it used to or could there be another reason? i dont get Forces tv so it would not be the mendips signal. Thanks.
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StevensOnln17:24 PM
Mr Castle: I think you may be reading something incorrectly as the information near the top of this page clearly shows that the PSB3 HD multiplex which carries TBN is broadcast at 200W from Kings Weston, perhaps you getting mixed up with COM7 which carries a number of additional HD channels but is not broadcast from Kings Weston. I can't see any recent faults being reported for the Kings Weston transmitter and planned engineering work would not be taking place over the Christmas period.
Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV or box? If you provide a full postcode we can check what the predicted signal strength is at your location. Whatever you do don't retune as that will wipe your list of correctly tuned channels making it much more difficult to tell when the problem has been resolved.
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Thursday, 30 December 2021
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Chris.SE2:59 AM
Mr Castle:
StevensOnln1:
TBN is on the BBCB HD/PSB3 multiplex as StevensOnln1 has said, which is on UHF C46 at Kings Weston.
However there are some errors at the top of the page, some of which are common to all transmitter pages here, as it shows Shopping Quarter LCN72 still on PSB3 when it moved to ArqB some time ago.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for a up-to-date list of which channels are carried on which multiplex. (except it still shows 679 & 680 which have now closed but seem to be still licenced).
The list doesn't correctly show the Bristol Local mux which is on UHF C31 at Kings Weston.
There's a query on the power for the 6 main muxes. The OFCOM 700MHz Clearance document shows the power as 200W whereas DUK are showing it at 250W. As already stated there is no COM7 at Kings Weston.
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Friday, 19 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:08 AM
10:08 AM
Bristol Kings Weston transmitter - Bristol Kings Weston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/05/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 22 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
4:08 AM
4:08 AM
Bristol Kings Weston transmitter - Bristol Kings Weston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/05/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 30 June 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
Bristol Kings Weston transmitter - Bristol Kings Weston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 26/06/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 3 July 2023
Transmitter engineering
4:07 AM
4:07 AM
Bristol Kings Weston transmitter - Bristol Kings Weston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 03/07/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 11 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
1:47 PM
1:47 PM
Bristol Kings Weston transmitter - Bristol Kings Weston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 14 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Bristol Kings Weston transmitter - Bristol Kings Weston transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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