Freeview Light on the Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 2,100 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 Icomb Hill (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 Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.
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 Icomb Hill 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 | C28 (530.0MHz) | 289m | DTG- | 22W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South (Oxford), 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 | C25 (506.0MHz) | 289m | DTG- | 22W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley 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 (Central west), | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C22 (482.0MHz) | 289m | DTG- | 22W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South (Oxford), 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 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 Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.
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 Icomb Hill transmitter?
BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 33km east-southeast (113°)
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 119km south-southeast (163°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C32 | 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 14 Sep 11 and 28 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 110W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 22W |
Local transmitter maps
Icomb Hill Freeview Oxford TV region BBC South (Oxford) Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Saturday, 5 March 2011
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David2:05 PM
Ch4 Reception- Icomb Hill
The sound seems a little distorted when the TV is set to Stereo (it sounds like when you set the volume too high when recording ).
The other channels are OK and it seems OK when I set the TV to Mono.
Is this a known problem or is it me?
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David: Sounds very odd, NICAM 728 is usually reliable for sound. And just on Channel 4?
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Sunday, 6 March 2011
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David1:15 PM
Yes just Channel 4 and not all the time. It may last for a few minutes and sometimes for a whole programme. The adverts don't seem to be affected. Reception in my area is not good as I have an indoor arial.
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David: It could be a local interference problem, please see the list of things on the Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page (the problems are the same for NICAM as digital TV).
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
=== NO TV SERVICE MIDNIGHT - 9AM WEDNESDAY - see Switchover starts in the Oxford area | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ===
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Monday, 19 September 2011
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Gavin Atkinson2:30 PM
Cheltenham
We have a cottage in Bourton-on-the-Water, never been able to get Freeview before, today I went over and Freeview is now working for BBC1, BBC2/3 BBC News etc. Signal strength is showing about 80%. I cannot get ITV or channel 4 or 5 on Freeview. Can I safely assume that as the Freeview is now working fine with BBC channels that on 28th Sep ITV, Channel 4 etc. will be working ???, just worried that I may need new aerial or something, signal was never that great in Bourton and I could never get channel 5, but the channels I'm now getting from BBC on Freeview are coming through load and clear.
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Gavin's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb385:20 PM
Gavin Atkinson: The reception predictor for your area certainly doesn't appear to offer many choices as far as Freeview reception is concerned, the local Icomb Hill station being the only one, Oxford and Hannington being either poor or non existent, however, on the 28th of this month ITV1 / Ch4 / Ch5 etc as well as the HD service should become available from Icomb Hill, as your report of only receiving the BBC channels matches up with the predictions seen.
It should be pointed out though that Icomb Hill is a Freeview light PSB only station, and as such you will not be able to view the full range of channels as would be obtainable from a main station.
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
* THIS TRANSMITTER IS CLOSED FROM MIDNIGHT TO 6AM - see Oxford sees the end of analogue TV as high power digital starts | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice . *
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Saturday, 5 November 2011
ICOMB HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:53 yesterday to 14:01 yesterday [BBC]
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Sunday, 6 November 2011
ICOMB HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:53 on 04 Nov to 14:01 on 04 Nov [BBC]
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