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50.526,-4.204 or 50°31'34"N 4°12'13"W

PL18 9LQ

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Gunnislake (Cornwall, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Gunnislake (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 800 homes.

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Caradon Hill region

BBC South West

West Country

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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.

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Gunnislake transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C46 (674.0MHz)	178m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	6W
	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, 301 301, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C43 (650.0MHz)	178m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	6W
	3 ITV (West Country), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (West Country),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C50 (706.0MHz)	178m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	6W
	101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Gunnislake (Cornwall, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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.

Regional news from the Gunnislake transmitter

BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 17km south-southeast
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.

ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 20km southeast
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	B E	B E	B E	B E	B E	B E
	C40	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1
	C43	ITV	ITV	ITV	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C46	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
700	C50	C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 12th August and 9th September 2009.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	32W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 6.4W

History of Channel 3 in the Caradon 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. Gunnislake 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.

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Mrs S Baggett
Friday 25 January 2008 11:37AM Calstock

I feel cheated. Becuase of where I live, I can't even get channel 5, and when the switchover happens, I will not be able to recieve half of the promised channels. And yet, I am still expected to pay the full TV licence - is this fair??

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Briantist
Friday 25 January 2008 12:48PM

Mrs S Baggett: Of course it's fair, you will get all the services your licence fee pays for. If you want more channels, you will have to use Freesat.

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Saturday 5 March 2011 10:19AM

GUNNISLAKE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:10 today to 09:21 today [BBC]

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