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Freeview Light on the Craig Cefn Parc (Swansea, Wales) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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51.701,-3.909 or 51°42'4"N 3°54'31"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Craig Cefn Parc (Swansea, Wales) 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 Craig Cefn Parc (Swansea, Wales) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Craig Cefn Parc 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	C43 (650.0MHz)	179m	DTG-	2W
	1 BBC One (SD) Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 13 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C46 (674.0MHz)	179m	DTG-	2W
	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 (Wales),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C40 (626.0MHz)	179m	DTG-	2W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD Wales, 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 110 Channel 4 HD (Wales), 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 45 Freeview channels?

The Craig Cefn Parc (Swansea, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, Great! Movies Action, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, HorrorXtra, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 70s, That's TV , Together TV, W, 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 Craig Cefn Parc transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 52km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 52km east-southeast (122°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Craig Cefn Parc (Swansea, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	30 Jun 2019-
	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T
C40	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves		BBCB
C43	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C46	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C50_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB

_{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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.

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

Analogue 1-4	6W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-4.8dB) 2W

Local transmitter maps

Craig Cefn Parc Freeview Kilvey Hill TV region BBC Wales Wales

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Kilvey Hill transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968	Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Craig Cefn Parc 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Wednesday, 16 December 2020

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3:15 PM

transmitter - : Off the air due to a fault from 16 Dec 08:45 until 16 Dec 14:45. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 10 August 2021

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transmitter - : Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 10:00 until 10 Aug 10:29. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

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transmitter - : Off the air due to a fault from 12 Oct 09:01. . [BBC]

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transmitter - : Off the air due to a fault from 12 Oct 09:01 until 12 Oct 12:01. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 4 January 2023

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transmitter - : Off the air due to a fault from 4 Jan 13:39. . [BBC]

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transmitter - : Off the air due to a fault from 4 Jan 13:39 until 4 Jan 13:49. . [BBC]

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Monday, 24 July 2023

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transmitter - Craig Cefn Parc transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 24/07/2023 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Friday, 11 August 2023

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transmitter - Craig Cefn Parc transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 07/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Monday, 14 August 2023

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transmitter - Craig Cefn Parc transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 14/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Friday, 18 August 2023

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transmitter - : Off the air due to essential from 16 Aug 16:15 until 16 Aug 16:16. Off the air due to essential engineering from 16 Aug 08:34 until 16 Aug 08:45. . [BBC]

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