Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 31,000 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 Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast?
Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) 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 Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) 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 Salisbury transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 44km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C23 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C68 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| Mux D* | (-11.9dB) 640W | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 320W |
Local transmitter maps
Salisbury Freeview Salisbury DAB Salisbury AM/FM Rowridge TV region BBC South Meridian (South Coast micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area
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Wednesday, 16 January 2019
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Magie Carter-Ebbels1:10 AM
All of my TVs are showing "No Signal" but when I check this site it is saying no signal problems in this area. I have tried resetting the TV but I am still getting "No Signal".
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StevensOnln110:19 AM
Magie Carter-Ebbels: Retuning was the worst thing to do as you have now deleted all of your channels which were previously correctly tuned, making it much more difficult to find the cause of the problem. There is nothing showing for the Salisbury transmitter, however if you are actually receiving Mendip (there are areas where signal from both overlaps) then you would have lost signal for a few hours overnight due to engineering work. Your only real option now is to retune again and see if your channels come back, then start looking for a fault if they don't.
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Wednesday, 11 September 2019
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john parker1:36 PM
what is going on with no freeview from the Salisbury/harnham transmitter today. numerous faults being reported to local paper and spire fm . if planned work why hasnit it been advertised. and when is full service going to be resumed,
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StevensOnln12:23 PM
john parker: According to the engineering post which has appeared since you posted, the Sailsbury transmitter is off air for planned engineering work which began at approximately 10:35 this morning. It doesn't say when the work will be completed, but most engineering work is done by early evening. Transmitter work is often weather dependant, making it difficult to notify in advance of when the work will take place. Do not attempt to retune.
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Thursday, 12 September 2019
MikeP
10:05 AM
10:05 AM
john parker:
Engineering work is carried out without any notification of when it will be completed. So much depends on what the work involves and how long it takes the Engineers to complete the tasks required.
According to the BBC, work on the TV transmitters was completed at 1448 and on the DAB transmitters at 1458.
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Monday, 6 July 2020
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V Gardner10:44 PM
Which ITV region best covers news in Salisbury?
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Chris.SE11:23 PM
V Gardner:
if you are receiving from the Salisbury transmitter, it will be BBC South and ITV Meridian (South Coast) - same as the Rowridge transmitter.
There's also a Local Multiplex transmitted from Salisbury on UHF C23 (if you can receive it at your location) which should have a "That's TV" local station at LCN7 which presumably will have some local news.
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Saturday, 29 October 2022
Salisbury in Wiltshire I have no free view reception at all so there is a fault and needs to be reported and fixed
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StevensOnln110:18 PM
Paul Dench: The BBC are currently reporting no faults for the Salisbury transmitter. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Are any neighbours experiencing a loss of signal? Have you lost all or just some channels?
Whatever you do don't attempt to retune as that will cause your TV to delete all the channels which are already correctly tuned before searching for them again, making it more difficult to see when the problem has been solved.
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Sunday, 7 May 2023
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Peter Goodhugh8:39 PM
Salisbury
I am at Amesbury, SP4 7AS and receive Freeview from Salisbury, I'm not sure which transmitter, but it may be Harnham. Just frequently - in the last two or three days - there are no Freeview signals. I am wondering whether there is a problem with the transmiiter. I would be grateful for your advice.
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