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The symbol shows the location of the Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 2,100 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) mast?

ICOMB HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 28 Oct 14:04 until 28 Oct 14:13. . BBC


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Which Freeview channels does the Icomb Hill 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
C28 (530.0MHz)289mDTG-22W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South (Oxford), 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
C25 (506.0MHz)289mDTG-22W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 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 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)289mDTG-22W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South (Oxford), 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 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

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 Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, 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 Icomb Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 33km east-southeast (113°)
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 119km south-southeast (163°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford

How will the Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-1327 Feb 2018-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 14 Sep 11 and 28 Sep 11.

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

Analogue 1-4 110W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 22W

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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2006Central Independent Television
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-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. Icomb Hill 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
Sunday, 27 February 2011
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DAvid
2:27 PM

Why has the local BBC news changed from midlands to south in the last week?

Is this permanent of due to problems?

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Saturday, 5 March 2011
D
David
2:05 PM

Ch4 Reception- Icomb Hill
The sound seems a little distorted when the TV is set to Stereo (it sounds like when you set the volume too high when recording ).

The other channels are OK and it seems OK when I set the TV to Mono.

Is this a known problem or is it me?

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David's 3 posts GB flag
Briantist
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6:45 PM

David: Sounds very odd, NICAM 728 is usually reliable for sound. And just on Channel 4?

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Sunday, 6 March 2011
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David
1:15 PM

Yes just Channel 4 and not all the time. It may last for a few minutes and sometimes for a whole programme. The adverts don't seem to be affected. Reception in my area is not good as I have an indoor arial.

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:48 PM

David: It could be a local interference problem, please see the list of things on the Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page (the problems are the same for NICAM as digital TV).

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:15 PM

=== NO TV SERVICE MIDNIGHT - 9AM WEDNESDAY - see Switchover starts in the Oxford area | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ===

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Monday, 19 September 2011
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Gavin Atkinson
2:30 PM
Cheltenham

We have a cottage in Bourton-on-the-Water, never been able to get Freeview before, today I went over and Freeview is now working for BBC1, BBC2/3 BBC News etc. Signal strength is showing about 80%. I cannot get ITV or channel 4 or 5 on Freeview. Can I safely assume that as the Freeview is now working fine with BBC channels that on 28th Sep ITV, Channel 4 etc. will be working ???, just worried that I may need new aerial or something, signal was never that great in Bourton and I could never get channel 5, but the channels I'm now getting from BBC on Freeview are coming through load and clear.

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jb38
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5:20 PM

Gavin Atkinson: The reception predictor for your area certainly doesn't appear to offer many choices as far as Freeview reception is concerned, the local Icomb Hill station being the only one, Oxford and Hannington being either poor or non existent, however, on the 28th of this month ITV1 / Ch4 / Ch5 etc as well as the HD service should become available from Icomb Hill, as your report of only receiving the BBC channels matches up with the predictions seen.

It should be pointed out though that Icomb Hill is a Freeview light PSB only station, and as such you will not be able to view the full range of channels as would be obtainable from a main station.

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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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