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Freeview Light on the Croeserw (Neath Port Talbot, Wales) transmitter

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

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51.644,-3.652 or 51°38'38"N 3°39'7"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Croeserw (Neath Port Talbot, Wales) transmitter which serves 1,100 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 Croeserw (Neath Port Talbot, 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 Croeserw 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 H -10.8dB	C32 (562.0MHz)	390m	DTG-	24W 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 H -10.8dB	C34 (578.0MHz)	390m	DTG-	24W 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 H -10.8dB	C35 (586.0MHz)	390m	DTG-	24W 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 Croeserw (Neath Port Talbot, 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 Croeserw transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 34km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 33km southeast (128°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Croeserw (Neath Port Talbot, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	2013-18	2013-17	17 Oct 2018
	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E T	C/D E T	A K T
C32							BBCA
C34							D3+4
C35							BBCB
C49_{tv_off}					BBCA	BBCA
C54_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C58_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
C61	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C64	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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 19 Aug 09 and 16 Sep 09.

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

Analogue 1-4	63W
PSB1\|\|, PSB2\|\|, PSB3\|\|	(-4.2dB) 24W
PSB1≡, PSB2≡, PSB3≡	(-15dB) 2W

Local transmitter maps

Croeserw Freeview Preseli TV region BBC Wales Wales

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Preseli transmitter area

Sep 1962-Jul 1964	Wales (West and North) Television (Teledu Cymru)
Jul 1964-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. Croeserw 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, 24 October 2018

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Friday, 26 October 2018

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Friday, 30 November 2018

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Saturday, 1 December 2018

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Sunday, 2 December 2018

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4:31 AM

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Tuesday, 4 December 2018

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Monday, 25 February 2019

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4:30 AM

- : HD Digital TV Reduced from 23:04 yesterday to 01:06 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:04 yesterday to 01:06 today. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 26 February 2019

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4:31 AM

- : HD Digital TV Reduced from 23:04 on 24 Feb to 01:06 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:04 on 24 Feb to 01:06 yesterday. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 27 February 2019

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4:31 AM

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