Freeview Light on the Cirencester (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Cirencester (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 4,500 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 Cirencester (Gloucestershire, 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 Cirencester (Gloucestershire, 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 Cirencester 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 | C23 (490.0MHz) | 235m | DTG- | 100W |
 1 BBC One (SD) 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 | C30 (546.0MHz) | 235m | DTG- | 100W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 235m | DTG- | 100W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD 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 Cirencester (Gloucestershire, 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 Cirencester transmitter?
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 53km southwest (234°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 52km southwest (230°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)
How will the Cirencester (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 7 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C30 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
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Sunday, 20 March 2011
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matthew9:00 PM
Cirencester
hi, I have no signal from what i think is the chalford station? ariel . post code is gl7 6lq the ariel point down the valley towards chalford.all was fine last night. reset to no avail.
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matthew's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 21 March 2011
Friday, 23 December 2011
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emma9:40 PM
Cirencester
Hello,
We live in cirencester and cannot get itv1 and channel 4 and a few others. It disappeared off out box about 2 months ago.
Any ideas? I have tried retuning the box but it just doesn't pick them up, my box also doesn't let me manually type in frequencies etc, it is an ALBA.
Any help will be much appreciated, thank you.
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emma's: mapE's Freeview map terrainE's terrain plot wavesE's frequency data E's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby10:30 PM
emma: If your box is tuned to the Cirencester relay transmitter the frequency for Mux D3+4 changed from C30 to C29 in September 2011. As a result you would need to do a factory reset to clear the channel list and erase all memory of the old frequency before the box would realise that the new C29 frequency is required to be tuned in. If on the other hand you are using Mendip (aerial points SW) or Oxford (aerial points E) the box could be tuned in to the wrong transmitter as Mendip (C54) is found second in the scan and Oxford (C60-) third. Check in the channel list for a duplicate ITV1 that works, this is usually to be found in the 800s if there is one. Also check for single frequency interference on the required frequency if there are no versions of ITV1 etc found after doing a reset/ scan for channels.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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Paul3:32 PM
When will we get all the other channels (dave, yesterday etc) from the cirencester west transmitter? Just the other side of town recieve the full line up from the oxford transmitter. Very frustrating to essentially be paying the same as others for the box and licence fee, yet only receiving a portion of the available channels.
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Paul: The reason you do not get the "full" Freeview service is because the channels you don't get are operated on a commercial basis. The Commercial operators decide where to put their transmitters, their business plan being that they sell advertising to advertisers.
They achieve 90% coverage of the population by broadcasting from 80 or so of the biggest (by population) sites. To transmit from the 1000 or so transmitters such as Cirencester would roughly double their costs of transmission, something which they have decided against.
For a fuller explanation, see here:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
This is capitalism for you. If it isn't likely to produce a return, then it won't get done.
The Licence Fee goes only to the BBC which is a service that broadcasts from Cirencester. If you are receiving BBC, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV2, More4, E4, HD and a few others, then you have all channels that are available from Cirencester. These are the Public Service Broadcaster multiplexes.
The best thing you can do is see if you may be in an area where you can receive directly from a transmitter that carries the Commercial channels. Oxford and Mendip may be the two main ones in the general area of Cirencester.
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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Paul10:05 AM
Thanks Dave, that really clears things up. Always the way in rural areas - last to get any decent services!
I've been doing some investigating since you posted the reply, and you're right about the Oxford transmitter which serves the other side of Cirencester. Ridge Hill seems to be another one relativly close by.
Would you mind explaining how I would go about receiving direct from a transmitter?
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks for your advice already. It's certainly opened my eyes to a few facts!
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Thursday, 28 July 2016
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Jackie W Brown4:14 PM
Was it necessary to retune enquipment yesterday and if so why? I had to do mine!
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StevensOnln15:39 PM
Jackie W Brown: The BBC have added a number of temporary channels for their Olympic coverage, a retune would have been required for your TV or box to add these channels if it didn't already add them automatically.
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Friday, 16 February 2018
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Tankdave1:49 PM
I have had to change my channel 29 to 30 to get ITV & CH4 etc. Why is there no mention of this and the map still list these programmes as being on ch29?
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