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Freeview Light on the Sidmouth (Devon, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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50.684,-3.224 or 50°41'3"N 3°13'28"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Sidmouth (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 6,900 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 Sidmouth (Devon, England) mast?

SIDMOUTH transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 7 Dec 12:30 until 7 Dec 12:42. .

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

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Which Freeview channels does the Sidmouth 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	C32- (561.8MHz)	130m	DTG-	6W
	1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C48 (690.0MHz)	130m	DTG-	6W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 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 (West Country),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C33- (569.8MHz)	130m	DTG-	6W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Sidmouth (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies extra, GREAT! movies, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's Christmas, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Sidmouth transmitter?

BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 72km west-southwest (244°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.

ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 65km west-southwest (242°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the Sidmouth (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1950s-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	27 Mar 2019
	VHF	E	E	E	C/D E T	K T
C4	BBCtv_waves
C32						BBCA
C33						BBCB
C39		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C45		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves
C48					D3+4	D3+4
C49_{tv_off}		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C52_{tv_off}					-BBCA
C56_{tv_off}					-BBCB
C67		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{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 8 Apr 09 and 22 Apr 09.

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

Analogue 1-4	12W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-3dB) 6W

Local transmitter maps

SIDMOUTH Freeview SIDMOUTH DAB Beacon Hill TV region BBC South West West Country

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Beacon Hill transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981	Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Westcountry 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. Sidmouth 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments

Sunday, 26 April 2020

Transmitter engineering

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7:28 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 24 Apr 13:43 until 24 Apr 13:51. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 27 August 2020

Transmitter engineering

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1:28 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 04:00 until 27 Aug 04:04. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 29 August 2020

Transmitter engineering

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7:29 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 04:00 until 27 Aug 04:04. . [BBC]

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Friday, 4 September 2020

Transmitter engineering

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4:28 PM

- : Reduced due to a fault from 13 Aug 23:42 until 13 Aug 23:52. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 12 September 2020

Transmitter engineering

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4:33 AM

- : Reduced due to a fault from 13 Aug 23:42 until 13 Aug 23:52. . [BBC]

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Friday, 8 January 2021

Transmitter engineering

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7:54 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]

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Monday, 21 June 2021

Transmitter engineering

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5:46 PM

- : Off the air due to essential from 21 Jun 12:15 until 21 Jun 12:16. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Transmitter engineering

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11:46 AM

- : Reduced due to a fault from 21 Jun 14:13. Off the air due to essential from 21 Jun 12:15 until 21 Jun 12:16. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 26 June 2021

Transmitter engineering

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2:46 PM

- : Reduced due to a fault from 21 Jun 14:13. . [BBC]

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Monday, 28 June 2021

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11:46 AM

- : Reduced due to a fault from 21 Jun 14:13 until 23 Jun 15:03. . [BBC]

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