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Full Freeview on the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmitter which serves 19,000 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 Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Pontypool 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
C23+ (490.2MHz)294mDTG-50W
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
C26+ (514.2MHz)294mDTG-50W
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
C29+ (538.2MHz)294mDTG-50W
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

COM4
SDN
 V max
C25- (505.8MHz)294mDTG-850W
Channel icons
 E4 (Wales), 20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C22- (481.8MHz)294mDTG-850W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C28- (529.8MHz)294mDTG-850W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Pontypool (Torfaen, 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 Pontypool transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 25km southwest (214°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 30km southwest (215°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1329 Jun 2019
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C22-ArqAArqA
C23+BBCABBCA
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C25-SDNSDN
C26+D3+4D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C28-ArqBArqB
C29+BBCBBBCB
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 250W
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20W
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10W

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

Jan 1958-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. Pontypool 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
Sunday, 1 April 2012
J
Jamie
9:02 AM

Anyone else lost all the hd channels since 31.03.2012 ?

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Jamie's 8 posts GB flag
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Monday, 9 April 2012
J
Jamie
11:15 AM

They came back when I checked Monday the 2nd April and lasted all week but now they are breaking up badly so if there are no faults then maybe I am not using this transmitter and I could be using Mynydd Machen ? I did not install my antenna and its in the loft so never checked anything but have had issues with HD channels since the switch over.

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Jamie's 8 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
J
Jamie
9:48 AM

Just to update the HD is working again now as of 8:30am 10.04.2012.

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Jamie's 8 posts GB flag
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:43 AM

Jamie: I a glad to hear that the services are working again.

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Saturday, 18 August 2012
J
J.T.Verrier
10:26 AM
Cwmbran

Re: Pontypool transmitter.
Rooftop aerial with signal booster but rather low because we live in a bungalow.
Able to receive Ch.22 482MHz - ITV Wales and S4C
but not Ch. 21 474MHz - BBC1 Wales and BBC2 Wales.
Signal quality 0 to 5
Signal strength approx 5.
Mendip signal perfect on different aerial.
Can you help please?

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:58 PM

J.T.Verrier: Pontypool does broadcast on C22, but it is COM5/ArqA which carries Pick TV and others.

PSB2: ITV Wales, S4C etc is on C26 and BBC is on C23 and not C21.

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
B
Bernard Tyson
6:47 PM

no signal at 18.16 08/01/13

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Bernard Tyson's 2 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
W
Wayne
9:22 AM

I live in the Cwmbran area and have never been able
To recieve hd chans from the pontypool transmitter even though the aerial can see it, sd progs are perfect..I had a local aerial guy come round and see of he could get hd freeview for me and the only way he could recieve hd was to add an aerial and put it on the mendip transmitter and diplex the aerials together. The aerial guy said that he always gets the same problem from the pontypool transmitter with hd but couldn't give me a reason why. Can anyone shed any light on this problem and has any else experienced the same scenario?

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Wednesday, 5 March 2014
B
barrie wreford
8:24 PM
Newport

is there a problem with power output of the pontypool transmitter of radiation to the south as several viewers in the malpas area of newport have lost all mutiplexes very low signal, not aerial problem.

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