Freeview Light on the Winterborne Stickland (Dorset, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Winterborne Stickland (Dorset, England) transmitter which serves 11,000 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 Winterborne Stickland (Dorset, 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 Winterborne Stickland (Dorset, 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 Winterborne Stickland 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 | C46 (674.0MHz) | 209m | DTG- | 400W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South, 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) | 209m | DTG- | 400W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 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 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C40 (626.0MHz) | 209m | DTG- | 400W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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 Winterborne Stickland (Dorset, 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 Winterborne Stickland transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 58km east (83°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 70km east (86°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Winterborne Stickland (Dorset, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 400W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Alan Sims7:59 PM
Blandford Forum
Will Winterborne Stickland be transmitting digital freeview after March 2012 change over?
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Alan Sims: Yes, but only the Public Service Broadcaster multiplexes. It will not carry the commercial channels. It is a Freeview Light transmitter:
Where are the public service (Freeview Light) transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
NO FREEVIEW TONIGHT FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 9am - then RETUNE - see Switchover "completes" for Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice oo
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Sunday, 25 March 2012
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Johno10:33 AM
We have had really poor Freeview signal to all of our TV's since last night (24th March 2012). All of our TV's had worked fine since retuning on the 21st, and even prior to that we have had no problems. All devices have been reset etc. I have checked the aerial and found no problem, I have even tried repositioning it, making no difference! I see that work is being carried out at Winterbourne Stcikland, is work being carried out there affecting service in Blandford Forum?
Many thanks
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
Johno: There were problems, see the "Transmitter engineering" comment above your posting.
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Friday, 26 October 2012
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Robert Wood5:41 PM
Wimborne
I live in Sturminster Marshall Dorset. Your maps indicate that I should be receiving programmes from Winterbourne Stickland but my aerial, on the roof, is pointing to the IOW transmitter. Should I have my aerial realigned to receive a better picture
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Robert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Robert Wood: The Winterbourne Stickland transmitter broadcasts only Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) channels whereas Rowridge on the IOW is a full-service transmitter (it broadcasts Commercial (COM) channels as well.
Rowridge broadcasts horizontally and vertically and has been doing so since April. The COM channels aren't as strong horizontally, so better reception of those may be gained by switching the aerial to vertical polarisation.
See this page for which service are carried on PSBs and which on COMs:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
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Friday, 7 April 2017
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Ian Young9:41 AM
Advertised are 70 free view channels I have just spent money to put up a free view Arial and can only get 20 from Strickland why and will this improve
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Ian Young: Winterbourne Strickland is a Light transmitter, and will always be so. Its never had 70 channels, never been advertised as such, and never will - advertisers dont care enough about you, and hence the commercial channels dont want to broadcast to you.
If you'd checked, you would have probably gone for Freesat instead.
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Monday, 20 January 2020
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Gary5:03 PM
How do we check the function of winterborne Strickland transmitter. We seem to of lost all the channels on the ITV settings?
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