Full Freeview on the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) transmitter which serves 25,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) mast?
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Bristol Ilchester Crescent 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter?

ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 4km east-northeast (65°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Bristol Ilchester Crescent (City of Bristol, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | K T | K T | |||
C30 | LBS | LBS | |||||||
C37 | _local | ||||||||
C39 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C41 | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | BBCA | |||||
C42 | +SDN | +SDN | +SDN | SDN | |||||
C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C44 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C47 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
C49tv_off | +ArqB | ||||||||
C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 500W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 200W | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7dB) 100W | |
Mux A* | (-11dB) 40W | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBS | (-14dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
Bristol Ilchester Crescent Freeview Bristol Ilchester Crescent AM/FM Mendip TV region BBC West WestWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Monday, 21 September 2020
Lost all channels on BBC 1/2 mux
BS13 9DT
Ilchester crescent
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020
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Chris.SE12:58 AM
Paul Denning:
Can't find any listed faults, however there is some "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It has been particularly strong recently which can as you've discovered wipe out your reception.
Currently it may continue on and off for a day or two more.
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Friday, 26 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:17 PM
3:17 PM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/11/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 29 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:13 PM
3:13 PM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/11/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 5 June 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/06/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 12 June 2023
Transmitter engineering
4:07 AM
4:07 AM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 12/06/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 11 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
1:47 PM
1:47 PM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 14 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 15 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:48 AM
10:48 AM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 18 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter - Bristol Ilchester Crescent transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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