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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) mast?
Oxford transmitter - Oxford 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 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?
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| 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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Sunday, 5 November 2023
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Steve Donaldson6:06 PM
Jody: It's because the TV which has not done the swap pre-dates the capability to do the swap!
Changes to BBC HD channels as Freeview HD swap rolls out > RXTV info
The capability to replace SD channels with their HD variant has only been devised and made available in the last few years. This is as a response to the obvious, which is that the HD variants should take up the logical channel numbers of their SD counterparts where they exist (instead of languishing in the 1xx range). When the system/standard was devised in the first place, this wasn't thought of and was not an issue or requirement.
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Jody7:43 PM
Thanks for the info but the TV is only 18 months old. It is a Samsung. I've been doing some reading since I posted earlier and think it might be do do with the TV not having freeview play, only freeview. Read somewhere that Samsung TVs don't have freeview play.
I just hope that in the future, if BBC SD gets retired, we won't end up with channel 1 being empty and having to go to 101 just to watch BBC
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Chris.SE7:44 PM
Jody:
Here's another interesting technical article about Freeview Play HD channels
https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/15427/opinion/next-gen-freeview-starts-with-an-hd-swap/
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Chris.SE7:53 PM
Jody:
You are quite correct that it has do do with the set being compliant with Freeview Play specifications and so having Freeview Play. Your set should have a "Channel Manager" somewhere in Settings which would allow you to swap channels around to suit your own requirements.
On some sets/makes you might have to do it by using a "Favouites" feature.
In any event I would expect Samsung to do a Firmware update at some time which will take care of such "swaps" in the future to avoid LCN 1, 2 etc being left vacant.
It will be some considerable time yet before SD channels on Freeview are closed down, there are far too many SD only sets still in use.
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Steve Donaldson10:12 PM
Chris.SE: Thanks for the link Chris. It's a shame it's not built in to the DVB standard as it would seem a useful feature which produce the sensible result of having BBC One HD on LCN1, BBC Two HD on LCN2 and so on, now that the programming of SD and HD are identical.
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Chris.SE10:35 PM
Steve Donaldson:
Yes it's annoying. I've used my Channel manager to move my HD channels to 1, 2, 4, 5 but not ITV as it hasn't yet implemented full local regional news - still only 4 main regions (+ STV, UTV & ITV Wales). I've put the SD ones in the 900s so any (manual) retunes don't mess things up.
It's also irritating that doing a basic search I can't quickly find the BBC web pages that covered the changes, there were some but I don't recall where they were. One shouldn't have to rely on other independent websites for the information (and sometimes there can be errors or misinterpretations)!
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Jody11:09 PM
Annoyingly my TV doesn't have an option to move the channels. The edit channels screen only has the options to lock and delete a channel. Has 'rename' as an option but even that is greyed out
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Monday, 6 November 2023
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Chris.SE5:29 AM
Jody:
My set doesn't have the option direct (not a Samsung) I have to renumber.
I renumber the SD ones first to clear the LCNs.
So I did 1 to 901, 2 to 902, 4 to 904, 5 to 905, 9 to 909.
Then 101 to 1, 102 to 2, 104 to 4, 105 to 5, 106 to 9. I also did 107 to 8 as 8 is clear - my Local station is on 7, also 23 is too much hassle (2 key presses :o )
PS. Posts sometimes take a while to appear, so wait a minute or two to avoid a double post.
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Jody9:01 AM
Unfortunately my model doesn't have an option to renumber the channels either :(
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