Full Freeview on the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmitter which serves 720,000 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 Mendip (Somerset, England) mast?
Mendip transmitter - Mendip transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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)
Which Freeview channels does the Mendip 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Mendip transmitter?
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 23km north (11°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Cheddar | Transposer | 15 km E Weston-super-Mare | 1674 homes |
| Luccombe | Active deflector | 6 km w Minehead | 38 homes |
How will the Mendip (Somerset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||
| C/D E | E | E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | |||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C36 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C51tv_off | LBS | LBS | |||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | COM8tv_off | |||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 | 500kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-6dB) 126kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-8.4dB) 72.4kW | |
| com8 | (-8.6dB) 69.1kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBS | (-17dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Mendip transmitter area
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Monday, 24 June 2013
Friday, 28 June 2013
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Justin10:09 PM
Bristol
What has happened to the HD channels? I've had none for 8 weeks now!? I live in frenchay and have not moved the aerial. Any ideas? Has anyone else lost them?
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Justin10:15 PM
Bristol
PSB3 & COM5 are missing.
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Monday, 1 July 2013
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Bizman8:00 AM
When can we expect the new July 8th channel line-up changeover to occur ? I think my TV will pick it up automatically, but my PVR may need a retune.
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cfc7:23 PM
Minehead
Bizman
I thought we were done with changes at least for some time,where did you get this info from?
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Bizman9:26 PM
@cfc, LCN changes are a permanent feature of the allotted numbers as channels come & go. most discussion appears to be on Digital Spy forums but the new Drama channel is being advertised on channels owned by UKTV. The programme line-up can be found on the LocateTV site.
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013
B
Bizman8:34 AM
I've found the answer to my question, the retune is midday on the 4th of July.
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Wednesday, 3 July 2013
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Pete Green12:35 PM
Weston-super-mare
What has happened to Sky sports on freeview.
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Pete Green: Nothing, as these services were never on "Freeview".
"Freeview" is the brand name of the free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) services.
There are some subscription services carried on DTT. These are by their nature not "free-to-air" and so don't come under the auspices of "Freeview".
The subscription slots formerly occupied by Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 were, I understand, paid for by BT. BT then allowed customers to subscribe to these services. BT has decided to replace the two Sky Sports services with its own BT Sport services.
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Pete Green1:08 PM
Weston-super-mare
Dave Lindsay
Try channels 41 and 42. Now saying "Ceased Broadcasting. I know that they were not free. But were not from BT.
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