Misc Information

Television

Your local TV channels come from on top of one of the Tower Blocks in Penhill.

  BBC1 BBC2 ITV CH 4 Ae Gp Power Grid Reference Tx No. Landlord Ae Ht BBC Region ITV Company
Seagry Court 44 51 41 47 BV 8W SU149881 110.12 CCIC 158 West HTV

TV Aerial - Group B, Vertical Polarised.

There is no channel 5 transmitted from here. If you want channel 5 then either get Virgin Media, Sky or FreeSat.

Virgin and Sky offer different month packages they can include your phone and broadband.

FreeSat is a one off payment of £20 for a card and up to £150 for a skybox and dish to be installed.
(If you already have a dish there is always ebay for a box)

But some of the houses, with High Gain Aerials and long poles,  I am told, can get Digital TV from Mendip or Oxford.

Quite a lot of the houses were connected to Cable when they were built.

All of AbbeyMeads is covered by Broad Band, either via the Telephone or Cable.

Radio FM

FM

Station

Transmitter Location

98.6

BBC Radio 1

Swindon

99.1

BBC Radio 1

Oxford

89.0

BBC Radio 2

Swindon

89.5

BBC Radio 2

Oxford

89.9

BBC Radio 2

South Wales and West England

91.2

BBC Radio 3

Swindon

91.7

BBC Radio 3

Oxford

92.1

BBC Radio 3

South Wales and West England

92.3

BBC Radio 3

Marlborough

93.4

BBC Radio 4

Swindon

93.9

BBC Radio 4

Oxford

94.3

BBC Radio 4

South Wales and West England

103.6

BBC Radio Swindon

Swindon

104.3

BBC Radio Wiltshire

West Wiltshire

97.2

GWR FM Swindon

Swindon

102.2

GWR FM Wiltshire

West Wiltshire

100.8

Classic FM

Swindon

101.7

Classic FM

South Wales and West England

101.3

Classic FM

Oxford

95.2

BBC Radio Oxford

Oxford

104.9

BBC Radio Wiltshire

Marlborough

95.5

BBC Radio Bristol

Avon

Radio DAB - From Blunsdon behind the Abbey Stadium (Speedway)

No.

Station

Sub

Network

Mux and Freq

1

BBC Asian Network

1

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

2

BBC Radio 1

2

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

3

BBC 1Xtra

3

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

4

BBC Radio 2

4

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

5

BBC Radio 3

5

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

6

BBC Radio 4

6

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

7

BBC Radio 5 Live

7

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

8

BBC Radio 5 Live Sport Extra

8

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

9

BBC 6 Music

9

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

10

BBC 7

10

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

11

BBC World Service

11

BBC Network

12B, 225.648 MHz

12

Classic FM

1

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

13

Core

2

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

14

Capital Life

3

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

15

OneWord

4

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

16

Planet Rock

5

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

17

Talksport

6

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

18

theJazz

7

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

19

Virgin Radio

8

Digital One Network

11D, 222.064 MHz

20

BBC Radio Swindon

1

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

21

Capital Disney

2

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

22

Chill

3

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

23

Classic Gold

4

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

24

Fun

5

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

25

GWR Swindon

6

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

26

Kiss

7

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

27

Our Kind of Musoc

8

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

28

XFM

9

Now Swindon

11C, 220.352 MHz

 

 

 

 

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