Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 410,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter._______
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 Oxford 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 Oxford transmitter?
BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 6km west-southwest (258°)
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 102km south (182°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 23 May 2018 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | _local | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | LOX | LOX | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | |||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | 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 14 Sep 11 and 28 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-11dB) 40kW | |
| com8 | (-14.7dB) 17.1kW | |
| com7 | (-14.8dB) 16.4kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LOX | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-18dB) 8kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B* | (-19.2dB) 6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Thursday, 27 September 2018
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Joe Elliott10:31 AM
No BBC programmes on 26/09 as Pikpilot-today 27/09 at time of posting no BBC programmes since switching on at 0700.This is not new and has been ongoing since summer 2017. My Ariel installation has been checked. Suggestions welcome.
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MikeP
10:40 AM
10:40 AM
Dell and Joe Elliott:
Please check your aerial cab,es and connections as there is no reported problem at the Oxford transmitter. If you have coaxial plugs/sockets, please unplug them and refit. That will clear any corrosion/oxidation from the contacts which is a well known and common cause of the problems you report.
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Friday, 28 September 2018
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Dell10:35 PM
"Dell
Please check your aerial cab,es and connections as there is no reported problem at the Oxford transmitter. If you have coaxial plugs/sockets, please unplug them and refit. That will clear any corrosion/oxidation from the contacts which is a well known and common cause of the problems you report"
As a retired TV and video/electronics technician of over 45 years I can assure you my aerial system and connections/equipment are 99.9 percent also other people nearby have mentioned to me and asking "did your TV programmes go off this morning" so I suggest someone is not admitting there was a fault!
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Saturday, 29 September 2018
MikeP
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
Dell:
Please bear in mind that we contributors have no knowledge of posters knowledge/experience and the vast majority appear, from the questions asked and language used, to have little or no technical knowledge/experience in the field of TV broadcasting, hence the answer given which is still valid and resolves a vast majority of such issues. No other posters have mentioned any such issues with the Oxford transmitter as yet this month. According to the Digital UK planned engineering works page, at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…rks, there are no works planned nor being done at Oxford.
I have been involved directly woith technical matters concerning manufacture, service and training about TV sets, video recorders, etc since 1960 and retired as a Senior Technical Training Manager for a major TV rental company.
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Sunday, 30 September 2018
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Dell9:26 PM
MikeP: Thanks for your reply, I also have been involved with nearly all of the major TV radio and video repair/rental companies from 1965 until 1995 and also had my own business repairing all types of domestic and some commercial equipment, I am puzzled why at least six people over a roughly 3 mile area have mentioned they had the same problem to me.
Alright if there wasn't a problem as you say then it must remain a mystery situation, the symptoms were pixel break up along with freezing and complete loss of signal with No Video and No signal messages appearing on screen and this corrected itself on all channels at almost exactly 10.00am.
We will leave the issue here as it is no use making further comments about it, thank you Mike.
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Thursday, 4 October 2018
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Pikpilot5:58 PM
Any idea when information will be updated with correct correlation between mux/channel numbers and programme numbers/names for the Oxford transmitter pages? It is quite a while since the last major change to lower frequencies.
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StevensOnln17:01 PM
Pikpilot: When Briantist (the owner of this website) is able to do it. This question is asked almost daily. For the most up to date frequency data put your postcode into the Digital UK coverage checker and tick the detailed view box.
Digital UK - Coverage checker
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Sunday, 13 January 2019
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Rory10:21 PM
Hello I am in towcester and receive the Oxford TV region I don't understand why as we're not shown on the BBC Oxford news weather and yet the installer pointed our aerial to Oxford .
Why is this ?
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Rory10:23 PM
I must also mention the signal is weak on many of the channels and average signal is 40% signal and 45% quality taken on Sony Bravia TV .
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StevensOnln111:36 PM
Rory: If you provide a full postcode we can have a look at your coverage prediction and see if there are any alternative transmitters you could use.
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