Freeview Light on the Ventnor (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Ventnor (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
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, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C33 (570.0MHz) | 271m | DTG- | 400W |
 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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C34 (578.0MHz) | 271m | DTG- | 400W |
 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, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C36 (594.0MHz) | 271m | DTG- | 400W |
 56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview 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, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 37km north-northwest (336°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
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-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | C/D E T | A K T | ||||
| C5 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C48 | |||||||||
| C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C52tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | BBCA |
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 |
Local transmitter maps
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Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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Thomas Yates10:55 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
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 Thorpe6:28 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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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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CHRIS9:38 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 Hawkins10:26 AM
BBC radio 4 VHF went off-air ~7:03 this morning - moments before the lights flickered.
Suggests lightning strike?
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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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CHRIS11:19 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,Derby11:50 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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CHRIS12:11 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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