The symbol shows the location of the Pennar (Caerphilly, Wales) transmitter which serves 3,800 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Pennar (Caerphilly, Wales) mast?

PENNAR transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 18:53 yesterday to 23:37 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 17:59 yesterday to 18:36 yesterday.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

Which Freeview channels does the Pennar 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	C43 (650.0MHz)	275m	DTG-3	20W
	1 BBC One Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 601 BBC RB 1, plus 14 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C46 (674.0MHz)	275m	DTG-3	20W
	3 ITV (Wales), 4 S4C HD, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 7 Channel 4 (Wales) South ads, 13 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 14 More4, 15 Film4, 24 ITV4, 24 ITV4 +1, 33 ITV +1 (Wales),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C40 (626.0MHz)	275m	DTG-6	20W
	45 Film4 +1, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD,

DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview channels?

The Pennar (Caerphilly, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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 Pennar transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 19km south-southwest
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 23km south-southwest
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Pennar (Caerphilly, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	13/3/13-	2013-17	30th Jun 2019-
	aerial group	B E	B E	B E	B E	B E K	B E K	A B C/D E K VHF
	C40	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1		BBCB	BBCB
	C43	ITV	ITV	ITV	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C46	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
700	C50	C4	C4	C4	BBCB

orange background for multiplexes names more
green background for transmission frequencies
lilac background for power levels in watts
800MHz band: 4G mobile started in 2013
700MHz band: 4G from 30 June 2020more
600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 3rd March and 31st March 2010.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	100W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 20W

Other local maps

Pennar Freeview Pennar AM/FM Wenvoe TV region BBC Wales Wales DAB in Caerphilly AM/FM in Caerphilly

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Wenvoe transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968	Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Pennar 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.