Freeview Light on the Newport Bay (Pembrokeshire, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Newport Bay (Pembrokeshire, Wales) transmitter which serves 800 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 Newport Bay (Pembrokeshire, Wales) 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 Newport Bay (Pembrokeshire, Wales) 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 Newport Bay 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 | C47+ (682.2MHz) | 102m | DTG- | 10W |
1 BBC One (SD) Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C41+ (634.2MHz) | 102m | DTG- | 10W |
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 (Wales), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C44+ (658.2MHz) | 102m | DTG- | 10W |
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD Wales, 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 110 Channel 4 HD (Wales), 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others |
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Newport Bay (Pembrokeshire, Wales) 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 Newport Bay transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 125km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 125km east-southeast (122°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
How will the Newport Bay (Pembrokeshire, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 17 Oct 2018 | |||||
C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | B E T | B E K T | |||||
C41 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C44 | +BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C47 | +BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C51tv_off | +D3+4 | ||||||||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C67 | 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 19 Aug 09 and 16 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 13W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1.1dB) 10W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Preseli transmitter area
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Monday, 14 January 2013
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Chris Carver6:51 PM
We have recently moved to Newport and are disappointed to find that channels such as Film4, E4, ITV4 seem not to be not available via BTVisionfrom this tramnsmitter whereas they were in Herefordshire.Or maybe we haven't got things set up properly?
Kind regards
Chris
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Chris Carver: You have it correct; Newport Bay transmitter only relays PSB channels.
The now has a two-tier terrestrial television transmitter network. The Commercial (COM) networks only broadcast from 81 of the largest transmitters and don't consider it worth their while to include the others because it would roughly double their cost of transmission whilst only adding around 10% of the population to what they already have.
See here for a further explanation:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Unless you can receive all channels from Preseli, or another full-service transmitter, then the only way to get the channels you mention free-to-air is via satellite (Freesat being a popular choice).
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