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 25/09/2023 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, 1 July 2013
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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
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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's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Pete Green: They were encrypted and BT subscribers had access to them, along with those of Top Up TV. So BT was definitely involved, whether directly or indirectly. It stands to reason that, ultimately BT (and Top Up TV) were providing finance for these services to be carried.
The BT Sport services are on DTT in lieu of the Sky Sports. BT has clearly put a lot into its BT Sport project, having secured the rights to high-profile sport and having hired high-profile presenters.
As the old saying goes "money talks", I should imagine.
Search the internet for information. Sky Sports is still available to BT customers, but streamed via their broadband connections (rather than over the air like a "normal" television channel). Customers whose connections aren't fast enough aren't happy.
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MikeP
4:46 PM
4:46 PM
The 2 Sky Sports channels are to be replaced with the 2 BT Sport channels in August. Much of the coverage will be football, rugby, tennis, MotoGP etc but many fans of other sports are less interested. BT do not have a price yet for these services after the first year free.
Those hoping to get the service via their broadband connect will, I'm told by BT, need a service of at least 5.6 Mbps, so many rural users will be disappointed. (I'm not despite a 2.1 Mbps ADSL line - I don't like football!).
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Thursday, 4 July 2013
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Pete Green11:39 AM
Weston-super-mare
Dave Lindsay and MikeP
Thank you for that. I see Brian has a new column about this.
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 8 July 2013
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bruce12:30 PM
have had to re-turn tv [and will do my freeview box] in order to get the latest channel number changes ie ch20. Why was no notification given of the need to re-tune or did I missed it?
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Bizman8:38 PM
You missed it! Easily done, it was in the small print in adverts for it. The adverts only appeared on UKTV channels such as Yesterday, Really, et al
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