Freeview Light on the Marlborough (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Marlborough (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 4,300 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 Marlborough (Wiltshire, 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 Marlborough (Wiltshire, 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 Marlborough 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 | C25 (506.0MHz) | 242m | DTG- | 20W |
 1 BBC One (SD) 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 | C28 (530.0MHz) | 242m | DTG- | 20W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C22 (482.0MHz) | 242m | DTG- | 20W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD 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 Marlborough (Wiltshire, 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 Marlborough transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 63km west (275°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 60km west (273°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Marlborough (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C7 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C32 | 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 | 100W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
Marlborough Freeview Marlborough DAB Marlborough AM/FM Mendip TV region BBC West WestWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Friday, 15 April 2022
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Peter6:21 PM
For three years, despit contacting the freeviw authority by web and phone , we have severely limited free to air reception. E.g. no dave or drama.
We also get repeated no signal messages on bbc 1 or 2
How do we fix this?
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StevensOnln110:36 PM
Peter: I'm not sure who you contacted as there isn't a single Freeview authority, there are in fact various different organisations involved in operating TV services under the Freeview banner (i.e. transmitter company, multiplex operators, broadcasters, Digital UK, etc). Marlborough is a lite transmitter which only covers around 4,000 homes which isn't enough potential audience for commercial broadcasters to be interested in making channels suc as Dave or Drama available. Getting no signal messages would indicate that you have a fault somewhere - it could be as simple as a loose connection behind your TV or could be something more serious such as your aerial becoming damaged or corroded and letting rain water in to the cable etc.
If you provide a full postcode we can check whether you might be able to get more channels by pointing your aerial at another transmitter, otherwise you could look at getting Freesat which would give you most of the same channels available on Freeview, but via Free To Air satellite which does not require a subscription.
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Chris.SE11:00 PM
Peter:
The Marlborough transmitter is a Freeview "Light" transmitter which means it is an "in-fill" "Public Service Broadcast" transmitter for those parts of Marlborough that can't get reliable signals from the main Mendip transmitter of which it is a relay, or any other nearby main transmitter.
The "commercial" operators that run multiplexes that have channels such as Dave & Drama, do not consider it commercially viable to provide the extra transmitter equipment for such multiplexes when the potential number of viewers it would serve is very small.
As you haven't given a full postcode, we can't help or advise on your reception from Marlborough which may be due to your location or possibly the current Planned Engineering at Mendip which might affect this relay.
How old is your aerial installation? Have you looked at your aerial - does it look intact and still pointing the correct way? Is the downlead secure and not flapping in the wind?
If you provide a full postcode we should be able to advise the correct direction for your aerial for the best signals from Marlborough or another transmitter.
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Chris.SE11:02 PM
Seems both of us were typing replies at the same time.
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