Freeview Light on the Kingsbridge (Devon, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Kingsbridge (Devon, England) transmitter which serves 4,100 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 Kingsbridge (Devon, 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 Kingsbridge (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Kingsbridge 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 | C39 (618.0MHz) | 141m | DTG- | 34W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C43 (650.0MHz) | 141m | DTG- | 34W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West Country), 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, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West Country), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C46 (674.0MHz) | 141m | DTG- | 34W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South West, 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, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Kingsbridge (Devon, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Kingsbridge transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 27km west-northwest (300°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 21km northwest (311°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
How will the Kingsbridge (Devon, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 10 Apr 2019 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCB | ||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB |
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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 170W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 34W |
Local transmitter maps
KINGSBRIDGE Freeview KINGSBRIDGE DAB KINGSBRIDGE AM/FM Caradon Hill TV region BBC South West West CountryWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012
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Paul10:35 AM
Gravesend
Can you tell me when more channels will be added to the Kingsbridge transmitter eg Dave? excuse my ignorance but I don't understand why Kingsbridge has a lot less channels than Caradon Hill, given Kingsbridge is a relay of Caradon Hill?
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Paul: Never.
There are now two types of broadcaster in the UK: Public Service (PSB) and Commercial (COM).
The Commercial ones are purely profit-driven organisations and the Public Service ones, as the name implies, have a Public Service obligation.
The COM channels achieve coverage of 90% of the population by broadcasting from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population).
There are over 1,000 PSB-only relays like Kingsbridge which serve about 8.5% of the population. For the COMs to add them to their portfolio would roughly double their cost of transmission. As they operate purely for profit derived from advertisers which requires viewers, then they wish to acquire most viewers at lowest possible cost. For this reason it isn't surprising that they don't wish to double their cost of transmission in order to add about 10% to their existing viewer base.
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Paul11:54 AM
Gravesend
Many thanks Dave. Looks like SKY have the market cornered for channels like Dave in rural areas but you have to pay
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Paul: Again, it is down to individual channels what platforms they wish to go on.
I guess that it is probably more profitable for them to pay to be free-to-air on the Freeview Commercial channels as well as Sky's subscription service.
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Monday, 1 July 2013
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Gary Smith7:09 AM
Hi, we are getting a poor/intermittent signal ref SX562463, stoke beach aimed at Aveton Gifford. Can you advise best signal and horizontal or vertical set up. Thanks (SX562463)
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Gary Smith: The only transmitter you have a good chance of getting a line-of-sight to is Kingsbridge (east, 101 degrees, 16km) which is vertical.
However, you need to have an aerial about 25 meters above ground level to achieve a line-of-sight.
To be honest - you should probably use Freesat if you want a reliable reception method.
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Saturday, 13 June 2015
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Bob Partridge12:02 PM
Hi - I am getting a good strong signal for BBC channels from the Kingsbridge Transmitter on C46 but the ITV signals on C43 are very poor and fluctuate. Is there anything I can do to address this?
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Dave Lindsay
5:39 PM
5:39 PM
Bob Partridge: A location, preferably in the form of postcode, is imperative as it's a reception issue. If you live out of sight of the transmitter and where reception is predicted as non-existent then it may be a case of keep moving the aerial in the hope of securing a good spot and hoping it lasts.
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Sunday, 14 June 2015
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Bob Partridge11:00 PM
Kingsbridge
Dave - thanks for replying, my postcode is TQ7 4AH, the location of the aerial is 5018'57.3"N 349'06.7"W. Its within the reception area according to the maps on this website, Any advice / suggestions would be most welcome.
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Bob's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Lindsay
11:54 PM
11:54 PM
Bob Partridge: Using a six-figure OS Landranger reference, as required by the terrain plotter, the base point is almost where the long/lat co-ordinates you gave resolve to. The plot shows that transmitter can't be seen due to higher ground at Churchstow:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
With that postcode the Digital UK Coverage Checker doesn't return any result, not even a very poor one.
If this is correct, and you can't see the transmitter, and by such a degree, then maybe what I said still holds -- that it's a case of moving the aerial hoping to find a sweet spot.
Freesat might be the best course of action, just so long as the dish doesn't get snow on it!
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