Brixham digital TV transmitter (no analogue)

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The symbol shows the location of the Brixham transmitter. The Brixham transmitter covers 4,400 homes.

Brixham digital TV transmitter (no analogue)
The yellow area has the strongest signal from this transmitter, green areas are served by stronger signals from other transmitters, white shows low signal areas. See Overlap Map Key for details.

Brixham digital switchover schedule

Note: This is the only schedule for digital switchover. Digital services cannot be introduced before the dates listed for "testing purposes" as they will generally use the same transmission frequencies as the services they replace. Another alternative, available today, is Freesat.

April 2009
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BBC Two England analogue switched off.

The following Freeview digital services will be available:
logos for BBC1,BBC2,BBC3,BBC4,CBBC,CBBS,N24,BBCPAR,BBCIT,BBCI301,BBCR1,BBCR1X,BBCR2,BBCR3,BBCR4logos for BBCR5L,BBCR5LSX,BBCR6,BBCR7,BBCAN,BBCWSR

1 BBC One South West 2 BBC Two England 7 BBC Three 9 BBC Four 70 CBBC Channel 71 CBeebies 80 BBC News 81 BBC Parliament 105 BBC Red Button 301 BBCi 301 700 BBC Radio 1 701 1Xtra BBC 702 BBC Radio 2 703 BBC Radio 3 704 BBC Radio 4 705 BBC Radio 5 Live 706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 707 BBC Radio 6 Music 708 BBC Radio 7 709 BBC Asian Network 710 BBC World Service
April 2009
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BBC One South West, ITV-1 Westcountry and Channel 4 analogue switched off.

The following Freeview digital services will be available:
logos for FVHDPROPER,ITV1,C4,FIVE,ITV2,C4PLUS1,MOR4,E4,ITV2P,TTXT

Freeview HD coming soon 3 ITV1 Westcountry 4 Channel 4 5 FIVE 6 ITV2 13 Channel 4+1 14 More4 28 E4 33 ITV2+1 100 Teletext 102 Rabbit 106 Direct Gov 107 Gay Rabbit 728 Heart

It will be necessary to perform a full rescan of your Freeview box on this day.

April 2010
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The following Freeview services will be withdrawn:
logos for FVHDPROPER
Freeview HD coming soon
The following Freeview digital services will be available:
logos for BBCHD,ITVHD,C4HD
50 BBC HD 51 ITV1 HD 52 Channel 4 HD

It will be necessary to perform a full rescan of your Freeview box on this day.

Transmission frequencies

Before Sunday 15th November 1998

C40C43C46C50
BBC OneITV1BBC TWOC4

Sunday 15th November 1998 to Wednesday 8th April 2009

C40C43C46C50
BBC OneITV1BBC TWOC4

After Wednesday 22nd April 2009

C43C46C50
Mux BBCAMux BBCBMux D3+4

Colour bands denote aerial groups: Red:A Yellow:B Green:C/D Brown:E Grey:K Black:Wideband

Notes

'Out of group' frequencies are marked with a star. Analogue power output 18 Watts, post switchover average digital multiplex output will be 4 Watts.

To receive signals from this transmitter, the aerial must be mounted for vertical polarization - the elements going from top to bottom.

Before switchover, the public service broadcasting multiplexes were 1, 2 and B; afterwards they were first PSB1, 2 and 3 but now called BBCA, D3+4 and BBCB. The commercial multiplexes A, C and D had initial post-switchover names COM4, 5 and 6; now they are SDN, ArqA and ArqB. At switchover BBCA, ArqA and ArqB will switch from 16QAM to 64QAM mode transmission, so five multiplexes will transmit in the 64QAM (2/3) 8k mode. BBCB is used for Freeview HD (DVB-T2, 256QAM), and has a pre-switchover service on selected main transmitters.

After switchover an existing group B aerial will provide all digital TV services.



See full list of analogue transmitters for a complete list of shutdown dates.

itv1 - Beacon Hill transmitter area*

DateIncumbent ITV company
29th Apr 1961 to 31st Dec 1981Westward Television
1st Jan 1982 to 31st Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
1st Feb 1983 to 31st Dec 1992TV-am (breakfast)
1st Jan 1993 to dateWestcountry Television
1st Jan 1993 to dateGMTV (breakfast)
NoteFor digital switchover this region is now known as Westcountry.
* The Brixham transmitter was not an original ITV VHF 405-line transmitter: the historical information shown above includes the details of the company reponsible for the Brixham transmitter when it began transmission.

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I have a friend aged 84 who lives at ### new road Brixham TQ5 8BD. She ahs a digital TV but can only receive the four main channels, why? What will she have to do on changeover, retune? will she receive the additional freeview channels? (map)
Posted by Frank Wye (1 post) on Monday 8 December 2008 10:59AM GB
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Frank Wye: If you are using this transmitter there will be no Freeview until next April, when the services listed above will be provided.

It is probably not worth the money to change the aerial to point at an alternative transmitter now.
Posted by Briantistplatinum (21,369 posts) on Monday 8 December 2008 11:33AM xx
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Hi,

Everyone talks about the switchover and about having the relevant Digital receivers for the tv but we were wondering (as were our neighbours), do we need to point our arials to a different location and if so where?
currently we are all pointing at beacon hill.

We have noticed that when on digital and we get the usual weak signal (just like we did with the analogue), the whole picture goes, whereas with the analogue we could at least still watch much of the programme even though it was snowy....
Once the changeover is in will we be any better off, or worse when the signal gets weak?
Posted by Glen Darby (1 post) on Tuesday 7 April 2009 8:35PM GB
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Hi, before the switch off of the anologue BBC 2 channel, we were recieving most of the digital channels on freeview with a newly fitted ariel, now after the switch off and the retuning of are freeview box, nothing. Is this what they call a succesful firt step? I hope not and I hope to get the channels back on the full analogue switch off. Can anybody tell me if this will be the case? Thanks.
Posted by Phil, Brixham. (1 post) on Wednesday 15 April 2009 5:37PM GB
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WorksBRIXHAM transmitter - 10 to 14 May 2010: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - N/A Digital services - BBCA, BBCB and D3/4 [DUK]
Posted by Transmitter engineeringplatinum (2,194 posts) on Monday 10 May 2010 10:34AM xx
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WorksBRIXHAM transmitter - Over the next week Brixham relay: TV (digital) Service Shutdowns, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Posted by Transmitter engineeringplatinum (2,194 posts) on Monday 10 May 2010 11:09AM xx
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