The symbol shows the location of thePontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmitter which serves19,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong,dark green areas are poorer signals. Thoseparts 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 Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) mast?

Pontypool transmitter - Pontypool transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 31/03/2025 Screen may go black on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex■ List by channel number■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Pontypool transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow thisFreeview 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	Vmax	C23+ (490.2MHz)	294m	DTG-	50W
	1 BBC One (SD) Wales,2 BBC Two Wales,9 BBC Four,23 BBC Three,201 CBBC,202 CBeebies,231 BBC News,232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others601 BBC RB 1,700 BBC Radio 1,701 BBC Radio 1Xtra,702 BBC Radio 2,703 BBC Radio 3,704 BBC Radio 4 (FM),705 BBC Radio 5 Live,706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra,707 BBC Radio 6 Music,708 BBC Radio 4 Extra,709 BBC Asian Network,710 BBC World Service,711 BBC Radio Wales,712 BBC Radio Cymru,
PSB2 D3+4	Vmax	C26+ (514.2MHz)	294m	DTG-	50W
	5 Channel 5,6 ITV 2,10 ITV3,13 E4,14 Film4,15 Channel 4 +1South ads,18 More4,26 ITV4,28 ITVBe,30 E4 +1,35 ITV1 +1 (Wales),71 That's TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	Vmax	C29+ (538.2MHz)	294m	DTG-	50W
	46 5SELECT,57 U&Eden,101 BBC One HD Wales,102 BBC Two HD Wales,104 Channel 4 HDSouth ads,105 Channel 5 HD,106 BBC Four HD,110 Channel 4 HD (Wales),203 CBBC HD,204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	Vmax	C25- (505.8MHz)	294m	DTG-8	50W
	20 U&Drama,21 5USA,29 ITV2 +1,32 5STAR,33 5Action,38 Channel 5 +1,41 Legend,42 GREAT! action,58 ITV3 +1,59 ITV4 +1,61 GREAT! mystery,64 Blaze,67 TRUE CRIME,68 TRUE CRIME XTRA,74 U&DaveJaVu,81 Blaze +1,91 WildEarth,93 ITVBe +1,209 Ketchup TV,210 Ketchup Too,211 YAAAS!,251 Al Jazeera English,255 FRANCE 24 (in English),265 ROK, plus 21 others16 QVC,22 TJC,37 QVC2,208 Pop Player,252 AlJazeera Arabic,254 On Demand 365,258 Real Crime,260 Asharq News,261 Al Arabiya,262 Shots!,263 SonLife,264 Alaraby Network,266 Revelation TV,267 God TV,268 3ABN,271 Channelbox,272 NHK WORLD,273 Newsmax,277 UK RADIO PORTAL,279 Purpose Media,280 Talk,
COM5 ArqA	Vmax	C22- (481.8MHz)	294m	DTG-8	50W
	11 Sky Mix,17 Really,19 U&Dave,31 E4 Extra,36 Sky Arts,40 Quest Red,43 Food Network,47 Film4 +1,48 Challenge,49 4seven,60 U&Drama 1,65 That's TV 2,70 Quest +1,76 That's Dance,233 Sky News, plus 11 others45 Gems TV,96 Sonlife TV,670 ADULT Section (start),673 ADULT smileTV3,723 talkSPORT,724 Capital,728 Heart,730 RNIB Connect,731 Classic FM,732 LBC,733 Trans World Radio,
COM6 ArqB	Vmax	C28- (529.8MHz)	294m	DTG-8	50W
	12 Quest,25 U&W,27 U&Yesterday,34 GREAT! movies,39 DMAX,44 HGTV,52 GREAT! romance,56 That's TV (UK),63 GREAT! player,73 HobbyMaker,75 That's Melody,82 Talking Pictures TV,84 PBS America,207 POP UP, plus 10 others50 GREAT! tv,51 Ideal World,62 GREAT! romance mix,72 Jewellery Maker,90 Together TV +1,671 ADULT Xpanded TV,674 ADULT Babestn,699 ADULT Section,718 Smooth Radio,725 Premier Radio,

DTG-864QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

ThePontypool (Torfaen, Wales) mast is apublic service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide thesecommercial (COM) channels: .

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see thewill there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Pontypool transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes4.7%
fromCardiff CF5 2YQ, 25km southwest (214°)
toBBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes4.7%
fromCardiff CF5 6XJ, 30km southwest (215°)
toITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	29 Jun 2019
	AKT	AKT	AKT	AKT	AKT
C21	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C22				-ArqA	ArqA
C23				+BBCA	BBCA
C24	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves
C25				-SDN	SDN
C26				+D3+4	D3+4
C27	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C28				-ArqB	ArqB
C29				+BBCB	BBCB
C31	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{tv_off} Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 -more
Table shows multiplexes namessee this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes:+ and- denote 166kHz offset;aerial group are shown asABC/DEKWT
_waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	250W
SDN,ARQA,ARQB,BBCA,D3+4,BBCB	(-7dB) 50W
Mux 1,Mux 2,Mux A,Mux B	(-11dB) 20W
Mux C,Mux D	(-14dB) 10W

Local transmitter maps

PONTYPOOL Freeview PONTYPOOL DAB PONTYPOOL AM/FM Wenvoe TV region BBC Wales Wales

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

Jan 1958-Jul 1968	Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	Harlech 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. Pontypool 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Comments

Friday, 30 May 2014

Pedr
10:03 AM

Wayne: I have the same problem in Caerllion. All the multiplexers have perfectreception except HD.

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Sunday, 26 October 2014

steve
2:15 PM
Cwmbran

I am trying to locate madei in Cardiff. I can get made in Bristolon Channel8, but following your suggestion of manually retuningC51 ddoesn't find it.
I am onPontypool transmitter, which Ithink is a sub- transmitter?
My postcode is np44 henllys, Cwmbran.c2
Thanks for looking.

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steve's 8 posts GB flag

steve's:S's Freeview mapS's terrain plotS's frequency dataS's Freeview Detailed Coverage

KMJ,Derby

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5:35 PM

steve:Local TV for Cardiff is transmitted fromWenvoe onC51, local TV for Bristol fromMendip, also on C51. At your location you appear to have robust signals from Mendip butreception from Wenvoe according to the DUK predictions looks to be somewhat iffy. This suggests that if there is any signal forMade in Cardiff reaching youraerial it is being drowned out by theMade in Bristol signal..There is certainly no prediction for Made in Cardiff being possible, even with poor reception!

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Thursday, 23 August 2018

Chris Roberts
12:38 PM

We regularly losesignal in the early afternoon on allfreeview channels. 3 days this week have been affected for up to 3 hours. When it returns most channels are suddenly ok again. did a reset twice yesterday afternnon with ''no signals found''. At 5 o clock 147 channels found. What is going on?

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StevensOnln1

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2:11 PM

Chris Roberts: You're most likely suffering from electricalinterference. Resetting won't fix it and is the worst thing to do as you are just deleting all of yourchannels and searching for them again. You need to look for electrical items which are in use in your own home (or that of a near neighbour) at the times that you loosesignal.

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Thursday, 1 November 2018

Paul M
8:48 PM

Hi, I have a question aboutsky dish size that I need. I live inpontypool so what size of dish do I require forFreesat satreception the smaller the better but not to compromise 100% reception. Thanks in advance. P

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Monday, 25 May 2020

Roger Morgan
8:43 AM

Hi for the last week I have lost all or some of mychannels this only happens late evening or at night, I have 2 aerials one for each of my downstairs and upstairs TVs and it affects both, daytime I have no problems

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Chris.SE

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2:45 PM

Roger Morgan:

ThePontypool relay transmitter has been listed for PlannedEngineering the past week with "Possible service interruptions". That work we presume has been completed as it's not on this weeks list, but I don't think that's necessarily guaranteed based on recent experiences.

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Thursday, 20 January 2022

Paul Clark
1:31 PM

Transmitter engineering: is ITV1 on thePontypool Transmitter

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StevensOnln1

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2:36 PM

Paul Clark: ITV is broadcast from everyFreeview transmitter.Pontypool carries the ITV Walesregion.

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