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The symbol shows the location of the Fowey (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 1,600 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 Fowey (Cornwall, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Fowey 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
C40 (626.0MHz)71mDTG-2W
Channel icons
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
C42 (642.0MHz)71mDTG-2W
Channel icons
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
C45 (666.0MHz)71mDTG-2W
Channel icons
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

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 Fowey (Cornwall, 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 Fowey transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 37km east (81°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 44km east (82°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)

How will the Fowey (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1310 Apr 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C40BBCA
C42D3+4
C45BBCB
C53tv_offBBCA
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C57tv_offBBCB
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C60tv_offD3+4
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 10W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caradon Hill transmitter area

Apr 1961-Dec 1981Westward Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South West (TSW)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Westcountry Television
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. Fowey 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
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
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chris scorer
9:24 PM

please can you let me know what stations i use to do a manual station search my post code is pl231jj and the aerial faces east over the river towards polruan

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Dave Lindsay
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9:31 PM

chris scorer: I think it points to Caradon Hill.

Channels for it are 28, 25, 22(HD), 21, 24, 27.

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Wednesday, 30 March 2022
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Anthony Bartlett
12:16 PM

There is a problem with the Fowey transmitter on C40 as the pictures have a small amount of pixsulation.
I am a local TV repair and aerial installer who now has had a large number of calls from customers about this problem.
I first reported this fault 3 weeks ago. Could you please give an update so I can inform my customers.

Anthony Bartlett
01726 833429

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Chris.SE
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1:26 PM

Anthony Bartlett:

Hi Anthony. I'm not sure where you reported it but it wasn't here, this is ukfree.tv an independent technical helpsite, if you reported it on the Freeview website you probably wasted your time!
The BBC don't seem to be reporting any problems with the multiplex but obviously if you have several customers with the problem, there is one. The transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering either.

Try using Problems with Freeview reception? | Help receiving TV and radio and follow it right through to needing more help etc. giving details,
and/or this page Tell the BBC | Help receiving TV and radio
You could also try following up by phoning the BBC Reception Advice on 03700 100123.

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