Local TV on Freeview - table of winners and losers

A new table showing the towns and cities in the UK that might benefit from the local TV on Freeview service.

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 10th August 2011 at 09:09}

The table below details the areas covered (and not covered) by the new proposed local television on Freeview. Some of the most populous areas London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff, Southampton and Bristol already are BBC and ITV regional centres, shown "BBC" and "ITV".

I have noted "Poor coverage" for cities and towns that have a proposed "interleaved frequency" where the population covered is below two-thirds. The predicted coverage is shown as the second column.

The "no transmitter" areas of Leicester, Coventry, Bradford, Wolverhampton, Derby, Salford have large populations, but no suitable transmitter for an interleaved frequency.

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Location	%	Population	Notes
London including Greater London area	97%	7714048	BBC ITV
Birmingham including Greater Birmingham area, part of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley	100%	2892768	BBC ITV
Leeds including Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield	91%	2651704	BBC ITV
Manchester including Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport	100%	2651704	BBC ITV
Newcastle including Gateshead, South Shields, Sunderland	90%	2410640	BBC ITV
Liverpool including St Helens, Widnes, Wigan, Wirral	99%	2121363	1st
Glasgow including East Kilbride, Motherwell, Paisley	88%	1807980	BBC ITV
Edinburgh including Dunfermline	48%	1470490	2nd
Cardiff including Newport, Bridgend	74%	1205320	BBC ITV
Falkirk including Stirling	74%	1108894	3rd
Southampton including Eastleigh, Fareham, parts of Is	54%	1108894	BBC ITV
Dundee including Arbroath, Perth	38%	940150	Poor coverage
Bristol	87%	916043	BBC ITV
Reading	39%	867830	Poor coverage
Preston including Blackpool	97%	843724	4th
Nottingham	94%	747298	BBC
Middlesbrough including Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees	76%	699086	5th
Grimsby including Parts of Kingston upon Hull	100%	650873	6th
Belfast including Lisburn	96%	626766	BBC ITV
Maidstone	64%	530341	7th
Sheffield including parts of Rotherham	63%	458022	8th
Guildford including Parts of Woking	29%	433915	Poor coverage
Ayr including Kilmarnock	65%	409809	9th
Norwich	96%	373649	BBC ITV
Brighton and Hove	65%	361596	10th
Stoke on Trent including Newcastle under Lyme	80%	361596	11th
York	47%	361596	Poor coverage
Gloucester including Cheltenham	93%	337490	12th
Lancaster including Morecambe, Heysham	30%	337490	Poor coverage
Telford	52%	337490	Poor coverage
Leicester	0%	330574	No transmitter
Aberdeen	100%	313383	ITV
Coventry	0%	303475	No transmitter
Hull	0%	301416	BBC
Bradford	0%	293717	No transmitter
Burnley including Nelson, Colne	68%	289277	13th
Carlisle	62%	289277	ITV
Reigate including parts of Crawley	62%	289277	14th
Swansea including Llanelli	61%	289277	15th
Hemel Hempstead including Parts of St Albans	34%	265170	16th
Oxford including Abingdon, Didcot	100%	265170	BBC
Wolverhampton	0%	251462	No transmitter
Plymouth	0%	243795	BBC
Derby	0%	229407	No transmitter
Haywards Heath including Heathfield, Uckfield	67%	229011	17th
Plymouth	106%	226600	18th
Salford	0%	221300	No transmitter
Mold including Denbigh, Ruthin	28%	214547	Poor coverage
Basingstoke	73%	212136	19th
Cambridge	99%	202494	20th
Bromsgrove	35%	200083	Poor coverage
Luton	28%	195262	Poor coverage
Keighley	43%	190441	21st
Malvern	63%	190441	22nd
Northampton	0%	189474	No transmitter
Portsmouth	0%	186000	No transmitter
Dudley	0%	184619	No transmitter
Milton Keynes	0%	184506	No transmitter
Sunderland	0%	177739	No transmitter
Inverness	69%	173566	23rd
Walsall	0%	170994	No transmitter
Bournemouth	0%	167527	No transmitter
Stratford upon Avon	43%	163924	Poor coverage
Southend-on-sea	0%	160257	No transmitter
Swindon	0%	155432	No transmitter
Bedford including Sandy	100%	154281	24th
Tonbridge including Parts of Tunbridge Wells	73%	149460	25th
Bolton	0%	139403	No transmitter
Ipswich	0%	138718	No transmitter
West Bromwich	0%	136940	No transmitter
Peterborough	0%	136292	No transmitter
Stockport	0%	136082	No transmitter
Limavady including Parts of Ballymoney, parts of Coleraine	65%	132585	26th
Slough	0%	126276	No transmitter
Dover including Parts of Folkestone	81%	125353	27th
Gloucester	0%	123205	No transmitter
Carmarthen	78%	122943	28th
Poole	41%	122943	Poor coverage
Watford	0%	120960	No transmitter
Elgin	58%	120532	Poor coverage
Chester	0%	118000	No transmitter
Rotherham	0%	117262	No transmitter
Newport	0%	116143	No transmitter
Greenock including Dunoon	74%	110889	29th
Shrewsbury	96%	110889	30th
Lisburn	0%	110000	No transmitter
Chichester	0%	108000	No transmitter
Winchester	0%	108000	No transmitter
Exeter	0%	106772	No transmitter
Eastbourne	0%	106562	No transmitter
Hereford	98%	106068	31st
Scarborough	75%	106068	32nd
Blackburn	0%	105085	No transmitter
Colchester	0%	104390	No transmitter
St. Helens	0%	102629	No transmitter
Salisbury	74%	101247	33rd
Crawley	0%	100547	No transmitter
Derry / Londonderry	90%	96426	34th
Worcester	0%	93000	No transmitter
Bath	0%	90000	No transmitter
Kidderminster	63%	84372	35th
Barnstaple	94%	81962	36th
Haverfordwest	96%	60266	37th
Bangor	77%	53034	38th

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Comments

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Briantist

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5:25 PM

Stuart: I don't think it a problem of "poor coverage", perhaps I could have found a better phrase. It is "poor coverage from the proposed transmitters", because 62% of the households in the area covered by the IF are actually using another .

This is because the local service is show as being and the relays, but and also cover the "target area".

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Briantist

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5:34 PM

has been a TV since 13th October 1965. has been on air since 30th September 1961.

is a UHF-era main transmitter.
is a UHF-era .

So, this means that the area has had 45-50 years of multiple-transmitter coverage, so you would expect the coverage to be split - it seems quite reasonable that 38% would be using Angus/Tay Bridge.

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Thursday, 18 August 2011

Jerry
3:28 PM
Weymouth

the available in are few - is there plans to improve this anytime soon or have I got to fit a ?

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Jerry's: J's Freeview map J's terrain plot J's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage

Briantist

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4:58 PM

Jerry: If you want more , you will need to use - see Compare Freeview Light and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - there will be no more multiplexes from the .