Freeview Light on the Bristol Montpelier (City of Bristol, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bristol Montpelier (City of Bristol, England) transmitter which serves 3,800 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 Bristol Montpelier (City of Bristol, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)




The Bristol Montpelier (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Together TV +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday +1.
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 Montpelier 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 | C27 (522.0MHz) | 71m | DTG-3 | 10W |
1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 601 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C24 (498.0MHz) | 71m | DTG-3 | 10W |
3 ITV (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, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (West), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C21+ (474.2MHz) | 71m | DTG-6 | 10W |
74 Shopping Quarter , 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, plus 1 others |
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 51 Freeview channels?
The Bristol Montpelier (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Together TV +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday +1.
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 Montpelier transmitter?

BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 2km southwest (234°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.

ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 4km southeast (146°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Bristol Montpelier (City of Bristol, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 5 Jun 2019 | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
C21 | +BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C24 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C27 | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 - 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, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 10W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:14 yesterday to 04:27 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:14 yesterday to 04:28 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 1 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:14 on 27 Feb to 04:27 on 27 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:14 on 27 Feb to 04:28 on 27 Feb. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
8:31 AM
8:31 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 today to 03:19 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 today to 03:19 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 17 January 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 yesterday to 03:19 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 yesterday to 03:19 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 18 January 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 on 16 Jan to 03:19 on 16 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:19 on 16 Jan to 03:19 on 16 Jan. [BBC]
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Saturday, 16 March 2019
Transmitter engineering
11:09 PM
11:09 PM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Very Weak Signal from 21:58 today. [BBC]
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Saturday, 30 March 2019
Transmitter engineering
8:09 PM
8:09 PM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 18:31 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:09 PM
11:09 PM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Very Weak Signal from 18:31 today to 21:14 today. [BBC]
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Sunday, 31 March 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
BRISTOL MONTPELIER transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Very Weak Signal from 18:31 yesterday to 21:14 yesterday. [BBC]
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