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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, 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
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
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Friday, 26 August 2011
SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Reduced Quality from 11:09 on 12 Aug Analogue BBC TWO Weak Signal from 07:54 on 24 Aug to 09:16 on 24 Aug BBC TWO Off Air from 06:00 on 24 Aug to 07:54 on 24 Aug [BBC]
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011
SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Reduced Quality from 11:09 on 12 Aug Analogue BBC TWO Off Air from 06:00 on 24 Aug to 07:54 on 24 Aug BBC TWO Weak Signal from 07:54 on 24 Aug to 09:16 on 24 Aug [BBC] Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) Liable to interruption. [DUK]
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SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Reduced Quality from 11:09 on 12 Aug Analogue BBC TWO Off Air from 06:00 on 24 Aug to 07:54 on 24 Aug BBC TWO Weak Signal from 07:54 on 24 Aug to 09:16 on 24 Aug [BBC] Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) Liable to interruption. [DUK]
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SALISBURY transmitter - Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) Liable to interruption. [DUK]
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SALISBURY transmitter - Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) Liable to interruption. [DUK]
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Friday, 2 September 2011
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david8:15 PM
is there going to be a power increase on the 12 sept 2011 on freeview from salisbury
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Monday, 5 September 2011
SALISBURY transmitter - Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
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SALISBURY transmitter - Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) Possible weak signal. [DUK]
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
david: Nope. There can't be a "power increase" until switchover, which is Wednesday 7th and 21st March 2012
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Jim F5:40 PM
david: On the Digital UK website it does show an event for 28th September:
"Existing DTT power-up" on the Salisbury relay.
I've no idea what the power change is though.
DSO1 and DSO2 are as per Briantist's post.
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