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Freeview Light on the Ferndale (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Ferndale (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter which serves 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 Ferndale (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Ferndale 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C33 (570.0MHz)433mDTG-20W
Channel icons
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, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C36 (594.0MHz)433mDTG-20W
Channel icons
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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C48 (690.0MHz)433mDTG-20W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Ferndale (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) 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 Ferndale transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 23km southeast (142°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 25km south-southeast (153°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Ferndale (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1315 May 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TK T
C33BBCA
C36D3+4
C48BBCB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 100W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 20W

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

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Ferndale 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.

Comments
Monday, 28 February 2011
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elizabeth
9:08 PM
Ferndale

when will the ferndale tramsmitter send all freeview channels? i live quite near the tranmitter and am still not recieving all channels.

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

9:12 PM

elizabeth: The transmitter has all the channels it will ever have. It is a public service transmitter and the commercial operators have declined to operate from it.

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Sunday, 4 May 2014
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Tony Walker
10:33 AM
Ferndale

I Have recently moved to CF43 4BW, I have an amplified indoor digital aerial that I know works in Cardiff. My new area is 10 mins drive from the Fernadale transmitter. No matter what I do, I cannot pick up any channels at all. I have done all the re-scans and placing it in different places in the flat. Can anyone come up with any help? I have looked on Argos and wondered if it would be worth trying a new indoor Aerial?

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jb38
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2:14 PM

Tony Walker: Although the indoor aerial referred to (same room as TV type?) may well have worked OK in the Cardiff location the only reason it done so was because that the situation was totally different from where you are presently located, insomuch that the signal was being received from the Wenvoe transmitters rated @ 100Kw (PSB) / 50 Kw (COM) respectively and with the station located at only around 5 miles or so away, whereas in the case of Ferndale its only rated @ 20watts as well as being directional.

Although I have my doubts as to whether or not you will be able to receive anything from Ferndale using an indoor aerial, but go into your TV's tuning menu / manual tune / and enter Ferndales ITV's mux channel C57 into the box but do NOT press search or scan, because if anything is there to receive the strength / quality of should appear in the signal bars.

If nothing is seen, leave the TV on that screen and try moving the aerial around to different positions in the room.

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