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The symbol shows the location of the Poole (Poole, England) transmitter which serves 27,000 homes.
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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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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 | C57 (762.0MHz) | 108m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 50W |
| 
1 BBC One South, 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 200 BBC Red Button, 700 BBC Radio 1, 701 BBC 1Xtra, 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 6 Music, 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra, 709 BBC Asian Network, 710 BBC World Service,
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PSB2
D3+4 | vertical max | C60 (786.0MHz) | 108m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 50W |
| 
3 ITV (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 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 (Meridian south coast),
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PSB3
BBCB | vertical max | C53 (730.0MHz) | 108m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 50W |
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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,
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The
Poole (Poole, 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 Poole transmitter
How the transmission frequencies change over time
| years | | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | |
| 700 | C50 | | | | | | | local | |
| C53 | | C4 | C4 | C4 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| C57 | | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| C60 | | ITV | ITV | ITV | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |
| 800 | C63 | | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | | | | |
| 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 WItalics for
analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 7th March and 21st March 2012.
- Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Poole could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Poole transmitter using C50
Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels
| Analogue 1-4 | 100W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-3dB) 50W | |
History of Channel 3 in the Rowridge transmitter area
| Aug 1958-Jan 1992 | Southern Television |
| Jan 1982-Dec 1992 | Television South (TVS) |
| Jan 1993-Feb 2004 | Meridian |
| 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. Poole 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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POOLE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:08 today to 11:53 today. [BBC] POOLE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:08 on 22 Jan to 11:53 on 22 Jan. [BBC] Matthew WillsMonday 8 April 2013 2:06PM
Does anyone know when more Freeview channels (especially BBC HD) scheduled to be available from Poole Meridian?MichaelMonday 8 April 2013 2:19PM
Matthew Wills: BBC HD changed to BBC2 HD, and all 4 HD channels have been available at all tramsitters since the switchover. More HD channels will depend on the broadcasters making them available.Matthew Wills: BBC HD is now BBC Two HD.
All BBC services, including HD ones, are available from all transmitters. The BBC is a Public Service broadcaster.
The other channels, which are the Commercial (COM) ones (capital "C"), are not ever likely to broadcast from the Poole relay transmitter because they don't consider it worth their while. See:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The Commercial broadcasters have no "Public Service" obligation.
It may be worth investigating whether you might be able to receive all channels from Rowridge or Mendip.
As you may know, Mendip broadcasts BBC One West and ITV West. You could use Mendip as your main transmitter, feeding it into your PVR and TV. Then have a separate set-top box for Poole which you use when regional programming is being broadcast.
Unfortunately, Mendip's channels (frequencies) are such that you would not be able to combine the feed from an aerial on it with that of your Poole aerial.
Or perhaps you can receive from another of Rowridge's relays (in place of Poole) which would be able to be combined with Mendip's COMs to give you the full service. Matthew Wills: Luscome Valley transmitter wouldn't be able to be combined with Mendip's COMs, so perhaps there are none that will that you can receive. MattThursday 16 May 2013 1:08PM
Hi,
Does anyone else have trouble receiving signal in Oakdale, Poole for their freeview box?
At the moment I can only receive BBC channels and NO others.
Any help or ideas would be appreciatedupdates
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