Freeview Light on the Ivybridge (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Ivybridge (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 6,200 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 Ivybridge (Devon, England) mast?
IVYBRIDGE transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 17 Dec 01:31 until 17 Dec 02:08. Off the air due to a fault from 16 Dec 23:59 until 17 Dec 00:09. . FM: Off the air due to a fault from 17 Dec 01:31 until 17 Dec 02:08. Off the air due to a fault from 16 Dec 23:59 
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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.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Ivybridge (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 Ivybridge 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 | C33 (570.0MHz) | 192m | 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 | C36 (594.0MHz) | 192m | 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 | C48- (689.8MHz) | 192m | 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 Ivybridge (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 Ivybridge transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 14km west (280°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 7km west-northwest (291°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the Ivybridge (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 10 Apr 2019 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | |||||
| C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C36 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | |||||
| C40 | |||||||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C48 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C49tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C52tv_off | BBCA |
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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W |
Local transmitter maps
Ivybridge Freeview Ivybridge DAB Caradon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 30 January 2011
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Barry4:26 PM
Can I recieve HD on freeview ch 48 in Ivybridge? I have looked at the signal bar and get nothing at all showing compared with almost a full bar on the other mux's
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Monday, 31 January 2011
Barry: Yes, as long as you have a Freeview HD ("DVB-T2") receiver.
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Sunday, 6 February 2011
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Barry12:25 PM
My signal strength on ch52 in the Ivybridge area varies causing pixilation at times, whereas ch49 is at full strength all of the time. This occurs on both of my televisions both installed with the correct separate yellow coded aerials. Would this suggest a problem with the psb1 mux?
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Barry: No, not at all, it suggest you have some form of interference. Please see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011
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denise12:47 PM
have just found this site & discovered that there has been 'transmitter engineering' since 6 July; this coincides with terrible reception on BBC1/2/3/4; and commercial channels - pixelating all the time in the evening - sometimes during the day I am trouble free. I found the channel retune on the menu, but hasn't made any difference, in fact it didn't do anything that I was aware of. Can anyone suggest what I can do,was advised when switchover happened, that I would benefit from a satelite dish to enable me to have all freeview channels - not interested in Sky and am quite happy with the basic tv channels - all I want to do is enjoy the stuff I want - at the moment it's unwatchable. If I record onto the HD, I can watch the next day trouble free, not very convenient though.
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
denise: The engineering work cleared on the 6th July, your signal should have been OK since then.
Can you see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Saturday, 1 September 2012
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Terry11:46 PM
Ivybridge
In Ivybridge we do get Gay Rabbit and Rabbit but we don't get stations like Film Four?!!! mmmmmmmm? Why's that? Don't understand this cost thing... Ivybridge has been the fastest expanding town in Europe yet we only receive Freeview Lite for the same price as other parts of the country receiving the full Freeview service..... no explanation will satisfy as it won't make sense.
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Terry's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 2 September 2012
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KMJ,Derby12:57 PM
Terry: After much thought, Ofcom decided that the relay masts which carried four or five analogue public service transmitters would all continue to transmit the PSB services after DSO. Hence the Freeview Lite status for Ivybridge. The licence fee pays for the transmission of the BBC channels; ITV, C4 and channel Five are each required to pay for their share of PSB2 and any use of PSB3.The requirement for the owners of the COM muxes was that coverage should be at least as good after switchover as it had been before. This meant in practice that existing sites were maintained, with a significant power increase on the largest transmitters where the number of extra viewers served justified the additional cost. This places the onus on the viewer to use the correct aerial where a main station overlaps with a relay station and reception of the COM muxes is required. Otherwise satellite reception is often possible in areas not served by a main transmitter. With regard to the Rabbit services, the capacity taken up on the mux by text services is very small, certainly not the amount necessary to support another TV channel such as Film4.
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012
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Terry1:16 AM
Ivybridge
Hi KMJ... many thanks for your kind, considered and informative response which is sensible but I still find the whole business does not make sense. I understand what you are saying but there is essentially something very undemocratic and unjust about what is going on here... think beyond MUX and COM and all that... why when we pay the same as the rest of the country do we get a "budget" service... I realise there are many other areas that only receive Freeview Lite...it was always initially advertised as just Freeview... no mention of Lite? I'll just have to wait until November when the trees opposite have shed their leaves and our satellite signal comes through again...!
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Terry's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
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Barry Grose12:57 PM
The Ivybridge transmitter has been off air for the last 2 hours, not as stated at the top of this page. Any idea how much longer it will be off air please.
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