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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.

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C46 (674.0MHz)209mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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)209mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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)209mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected 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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 58km east (83°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1331 Mar 2018-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves BBCB
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves D3+4
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves BBCA
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Winterborne Stickland 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.

Comments
Monday, 20 January 2020
G
Gary
5:03 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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Tuesday, 21 January 2020
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Chris.SE
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8:11 AM

Gary:

We are going to need a full postcode to look the predicted reception at your location. It's possible that the current weather conditions with Tropospheric Ducting/Temperature Inversion are causing reception problems.

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Thursday, 17 June 2021
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S.J.Gale
7:28 PM

Why can't they find a frequency to relay the West Regions' News & Weather ? It seems a little odd given its geographical location where the public there live between the two regions and for those living beyond the reach of the respective main transmitters it could at least allow them to see what's occurring not too far away . It's called Public Service after all and if the Salisbury mast used to pick up signals from Mendip in order to relay ch5 , I'm pretty certain a signal could be received from WS. I'd be interested if anyone is interested

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Tuesday, 7 December 2021
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Pam Williamson
11:07 AM
Blandford Forum

DT11 7LQ

This site says:
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.

But I have no signal on any channel either through my Humax box or direct TV. It was OK this morning until about 9.30am and then I lost everything. My aerial is in the loft and my house is at the top of a hill. Losing the signal is happening more and more frequently. Are you able to help please?

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Chris.SE
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5:33 PM

Pam Williamson:

As you say, there doesn't appear to be any reported faults or engineering work having just checked. However with all the disruption that's taken place with the sever weather, reports seem to be sometimes delayed!

Have you altered anything in your setup?

In the meantime, if your reception hasn't returned, I would check that your aerial hasn't been disturbed and pointing in the correct direction with its rtods (or squashed Xs) vertical, and that your downlead looks undamaged (hasn't been chewed by vermin etc.).

Also check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for any multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in your TV's tuning section.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. will affect reception.

Also if you had retuned when you had no signal, it often just clears the correct tuning so you'll need to retune again once you have signal.

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Thursday, 3 October 2024
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5:09 AM

Winterborne Stickland transmitter - Winterborne Stickland transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/09/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 7 October 2024
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5:09 AM

Winterborne Stickland transmitter - Winterborne Stickland transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/10/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Sunday, 20 October 2024
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11:20 AM

WINTERBORNE STICKLAND transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 20 Oct 09:15. Reduced quality due to a fault from 20 Oct 09:11 until 20 Oct 09:15. . [BBC]

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WINTERBORNE STICKLAND transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 20 Oct 09:15 until 20 Oct 11:46. Reduced quality due to a fault from 20 Oct 09:11 until 20 Oct 09:15. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 24 October 2024
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WINTERBORNE STICKLAND transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 24 Oct 16:29 until 24 Oct 16:49. Off the air due to a fault from 20 Oct 09:15 until 20 Oct 11:46. Reduced quality due to a fault from 20 Oct 09:11 until 20 Oct 09:15. . [BBC]

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