The site was originally built by the IBA, entering service in 1968 transmitting the now-defunct 405-line VHF television system.

As well as providing an ITV service to the town of Llandovery some 8 km to the south west the site also transmitted to the north east, primarily to provide a link-signal for the ITV transmitter at Llandrindod Wells.

When UHF 625-line colour TV came to mid Wales in the 1970s the Llandovery locality was covered by the main transmitter at Carmel and so this site was not needed as a repeater.

[1] ITV 405-line television started up with the site acting as an off-air relay transmitter of Preseli about 65 km to the west.

405-line television was shut down across the UK in 1985 and Llandovery's Band III transmitter ended its service after a mere 17 years.