Freeview Light on the Exeter St Thomas (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Exeter St Thomas (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 19,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Exeter St Thomas (Devon, England) transmitter._______
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 Exeter St Thomas (Devon, 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 Exeter St Thomas 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 | C44 (658.0MHz) | 150m | DTG- | 50W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South 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 | C41+ (634.2MHz) | 150m | DTG- | 50W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 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 Country), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C47 (682.0MHz) | 150m | DTG- | 50W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South 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 Exeter St Thomas (Devon, 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 Exeter St Thomas transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 54km southwest (229°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 49km southwest (223°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the Exeter St Thomas (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 27 Mar 2019 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | B E K T | |||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 6 May 09 and 20 May 09.
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 Stockland Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 3 October 2013
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Graham Dyer9:59 AM
We have a Sagemcom digibox.
On film 4 there was a message saying if you recieve film 4 on channel 15 please return your free view box.As our digibox is 3 years old this would not be possible Graham.
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Susie Kilby: No. The only way to get all the Freeview channels is "if" she can receive them from Stockland Hill.
Presumably the so-called aerial "upgrade" was to replace the aerial pointing to Exeter St Thomas with one pointing to Stockland Hill, whose reception "might" be possible at that location. Unfortunately there are others in locations where reception from a full-service transmitter is not possible at all and so they don't have this option.
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Michael12:20 PM
Graham Dyer: If you don't retune you're not going to get Film4 any more. But I'm pretty sure Sagem boxes can be retuned - have you gone into the menu? Do you know the model number of the box?
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Sunday, 8 March 2015
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Soph9:32 AM
Dawlish
Major problems with getting Freeview channels 7th March 2015 in EX7 9SZ area
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Soph's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 2 September 2017
I live in St Thomas EX2 8BD and have done for about 5 years. I used to for about 4 and a half of those receive the freeview HD channels but I no longer do. I have updated all my equipment refined it countless times, I'm certain the problem is not my end, after all I did receive the HD channels for 90% of the time I have lived here. I also am not the only one to have this problem in the city. Please advise me on why I no longer receive them. With a large TV standard definition channels look awful. Thanks in advance.
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Glen's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 3 September 2017
MikeP
10:29 AM
10:29 AM
Glen Peters:
At your location you could be using either the Exeter St Thomas Freeview Lite transmitter or else the Stockland Hill main transmitter.You can tell by looking at whether the rods of your aerial are set vertical or horizontal, vertical being for Exeter St Thomas.
You are only 3 km away from that so it could be that your signal strentgh is too high, HD does not like more than 85% strength. So please check what the signal strengths are on the various channels and which channels/frequencies are being used. Look at the 'digitaluk trade' link at the bottom of your post (http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/main/trade/EX2+8BD/NA/0/), it tells you which channels are used by which of the available transmitters and their compass directions.
Neither of the transmitters available in your locality carry the extended HD services on COM 7 or COM 8. But they do carry the BBC HD multiplex and you should be getting those channels.
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Monday, 25 May 2020
10:54 AM
Transmitter engineering: I am getting 0ne or two second picture pause (sound not affected) on BBC channels since 22 May. This is on both the freeview recording boxes so it's not a faulty box and reception on all other channels is fine. We are on the St Thomas relay station in Exeter.
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Chris.SE1:43 PM
N James:
The transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible service interruptions". The BBC have listed "From 10:35pm to 10:53pm on 19th May 2020, BBC A and BBC B HD, Reduced quality due to a fault. Also From 0:24pm to 0:34pm on 22nd May 2020 BBC A and BBC B HD, Off the air due to essential engineering"
so this is likely to be the cause of what you are seeing and could affect all multiplexes whilst any further work takes place.
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Tuesday, 28 November 2023
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Stewart Price5:07 PM
Signal lost approx 16.45 today 28 November-when do we get it back?
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Chris.SE8:33 PM
Stewart Price:
As you can see from the post before yours, the transmitter is the subject of Planned Engineering.
There have been several reports in the last 12hrs or so, where it's been off-air due to a faults and also due to essential engineering.
The most recent reported by the BBC -
From 4:25pm to 5:34pm on 28th Nov 2023 BBC A/BBCB HD Off the air due to a fault.
Do NOT retune when you have no signal, you can't tune to a signal that's not there! In most cases retuning when there's no signal just clears the correct tuning.
I can't find any further faults reported, so you should have your signals back at present..
Arqiva never say how long Planned Engineering will take as some of it may be weather dependant, any maintenance or repairs may be complex. It is unusual for the transmitter to be off-air for any extended periods without some warning. Individual multiplexes may be subject to longer periods of interruption depending on the work taking place.
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