Freeview Light on the Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 1,300 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 Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
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)





The Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 4seven HD, 5SELECT, 5Spike, 5STAR, 5STAR +1, 5USA, 5USA +1, AlJazeera English (SD), Aljazeera English HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, Challenge, Channel 4+1 HD, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, Freesports, Home, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, Movies4Men, NOW 80s, Now 90s, Paramount Network, PBS America, pick, Pick +1, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sewing Quarter, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel HD, Sony Movie Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday, YourTV.
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 Winchcombe 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 (562.0MHz) | 168m | DTG-3 | 2W |
1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC SD, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 18 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C34 (578.0MHz) | 168m | DTG-3 | 2W |
3 ITV (SD) (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5 (SD), 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (Central west), 45 Film4 +1, | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C47 (682.0MHz) | 168m | DTG-6 | 2W |
86 More4 +1, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, |
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 60 Freeview channels?
The Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 4seven HD, 5SELECT, 5Spike, 5STAR, 5STAR +1, 5USA, 5USA +1, AlJazeera English (SD), Aljazeera English HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, Challenge, Channel 4+1 HD, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, Freesports, Home, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, Movies4Men, NOW 80s, Now 90s, Paramount Network, PBS America, pick, Pick +1, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sewing Quarter, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel HD, Sony Movie Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday, YourTV.
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 Winchcombe transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 58km north (2°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 58km north (2°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||
C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||||||
C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) by 30 June 2020 - 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 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 6W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4.8dB) 2W |
Local transmitter maps
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Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
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WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:25 yesterday to 06:39 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 25 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
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WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:25 on 23 Apr to 06:39 on 23 Apr. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
8:09 AM
8:09 AM
WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:41 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
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WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:41 today to 07:45 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:41 yesterday to 07:45 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 16 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
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WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:41 on 14 May to 07:45 on 14 May. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM
WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 today to 07:35 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 today to 07:35 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 yesterday to 07:35 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 yesterday to 07:35 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 13 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
WINCHCOMBE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 on 11 Jun to 07:35 on 11 Jun, HD Digital TV Off Air from 04:44 on 11 Jun to 07:35 on 11 Jun. [BBC]
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