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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.

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C47+ (682.2MHz)102mDTG-10W
Channel icons
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)102mDTG-10W
Channel icons
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)102mDTG-10W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected 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?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 125km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1317 Oct 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EB E TB E K T
C41 D3+4
C44+BBCBBBCB
C47+BBCABBCA
C51tv_off+D3+4
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C67C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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

Sep 1962-Jul 1964Wales (West and North) Television (Teledu Cymru)
Jul 1964-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Newport Bay was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Monday, 14 January 2013
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Chris Carver
6:51 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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Dave Lindsay
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8:17 PM

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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Wednesday, 9 October 2024
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2:20 PM

NEWPORT BAY transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 9 Oct 11:12 until 9 Oct 12:16. . [BBC]

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10:48 AM

Newport Bay transmitter - Newport Bay transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/10/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Newport Bay transmitter - Newport Bay transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/10/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Newport Bay transmitter - Newport Bay transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/10/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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