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The symbol shows the location of the Ventnor (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter which serves 3,300 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Ventnor (Isle Of Wight, England) mast?

Ventnor transmitter - Ventnor transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Ventnor 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
C33 (570.0MHz)271mDTG-400W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 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
C34 (578.0MHz)271mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 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 (Meridian south coast),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C36 (594.0MHz)271mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Ventnor (Isle Of Wight, 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! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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 TV 2, 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 Ventnor transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 37km north-northwest (337°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 31km north (354°)
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 Ventnor (Isle Of Wight, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1316 Oct 2019
VHFB E TB E TB E TC/D E TA K T
C5BBCtvwaves
C33BBCA
C34D3+4
C36BBCB
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C42C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C48 
C49tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C52tv_offBBCB
C54tv_offBBCA

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 2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
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. Ventnor 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
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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Thomas Yates
10:55 PM

Hi, im very interested in the history of Ventor tramsmitter as it was an ex RAF Airfield and Radar station. Would it be possible for a visit? If not who would i ask?

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Thursday, 26 July 2012
Briantist
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5:00 PM

Thomas Yates: The masts in the UK belong to a company called Arqiva. See Virtual Tour .

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Wednesday, 7 November 2012
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Victoria Thorpe
6:28 PM
Ventnor

We can no longer receive a tv signal on the south facing side of our house with an indoor aerial. It works only on the north side. This happened two nights ago and persists. Have had no problems before. Have tried resetting tv several times to no avail. Has the signal been turned down in our area? PO38 1EH. Help please?

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Dave Lindsay
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6:59 PM

Victoria Thorpe: The Ventnor transmitter is to your north and the signal is therefore coming from that direction!

If you have found that you no longer have as good a signal on the south side then this may suggest that the reflection you were relying on is either being blocked or is no longer there.

Resetting the TV will do absolutely nothing, barring wasting time, if it is a lack of signal!

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Saturday, 17 August 2013
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CHRIS
9:38 AM

Do we have any indication of the timespan we're looking at for the current fault on Ventnor Transmitter please?-also can the website be updated with more speed and better info than at present

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Philip Hawkins
10:26 AM

BBC radio 4 VHF went off-air ~7:03 this morning - moments before the lights flickered.

Suggests lightning strike?

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Briantist
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11:02 AM

Philip Hawkins: That sounds like a reasonable diagnosis.

Radio & Television Service confirms that BBC R1FM, R2FM, R3FM and R4FM are off-air.

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CHRIS
11:19 AM

well if it was a lightening strike it wasn't here in Ventnor-weather was fine and sunny -am frustrated at lack of info re how long this could last-another hour?-all day?-next week?-when???

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KMJ,Derby
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11:50 AM

CHRIS: Most usual cause for loss of all services is failure of the public electricity supply. This is rectified as soon as the engineers are able to carry out repair work.

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CHRIS
12:11 PM

yes well thats fine but can't there be an update posted from the appropriate source,saying what if anything is known-I have had to search hard to get any news at all-we had a power cut last week-our supplier kept us updated-of course these things happen and they are fixed when their fixed-but please just tell us something !!!!

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