Freeview Light on the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 20,000 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 Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) 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 Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, 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 Freeview channels does the Millburn Muir 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 | C29 (538.0MHz) | 210m | DTG- | 50W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C31 (554.0MHz) | 210m | DTG- | 50W |
 3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh), 71 That's TV 3, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C37 (602.0MHz) | 210m | DTG- | 50W |
 46 5SELECT, 57 U&Eden, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 203 CBBC HD, 204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?
The Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, 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 Millburn Muir transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 24km southeast (127°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 24km southeast (127°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
How will the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | A K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C45 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
| C49tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C52tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 250W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W |
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Wednesday, 15 October 2025
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jimmy7:46 PM
This is the BEST thing that could possibly happen because it seems there is something wrong with the info on this site as well as whoever sets up the "tune the transmitter by the post code" thing because I now have ALL of the HD channels and when I checked the signal strength it said SIGNAL STRENGTH 98% / PICTURE QUALITY 100% so I can indeed use blackhill transmitter. When I first moved here 8 years ago (!!!!) my Humax box must have used the postcode here to tune my box and when I checked on here there is a map somewhere that when you zoom right in on it, it does indeed show that the side of the road I am on can only use Millburn Muir with it's Freeview light service, but obviously it's just not true. For 8 long years we have been putting up with this inferior service and all along we could have had 155 radio/TV Channels. Oh yes and I did also find my original messages I think it was yourself who linked to them thanks Chris. Anyway all's well that certainly ended well. I wonder how many people are like me and have been putting up with Millburn when they can have Blackhill? What if I need to retune at some point does it mean I can just use the postcode of my old flat in Bowling and it will fool my Humax into tuning in Blackhill?
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StevensOnln111:44 PM
jimmy: Your postcode is not used to tune your TV or box, it scans and saves the tuning data for whichever transmitters it finds. Your postcode is only used to provide a prediction of what might be able to be received at your location and is not always accurate due to trees, buildings, terrain and other obstructions which the prediction software may not always be aware of.
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Thursday, 16 October 2025
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Chris.SE1:06 AM
jimmy:
I'm sorry to have to say that your last post is more typical of the type of post made on that other website you mentioned, where what is going on is not fully understood and reasons given are often misleading at best and sometimes incorrect.
Now when you sated that you were picking up Blackhill, I did just take your word for it without checking that, assuming that it was possible because of the current weather conditions, the details of which have ben posted and updated here. Your last post has made me go away and check in more detail.
Now, whilst I know that some TVs/boxes ask for a postcode, it's often to make sure you get the correct region where transmitters from more than one region can sometimes be received AND also where the TV/box is "Smart" to ensure you get the correct region on iPlayer/ITVX and so on.
I don't have Humax so I don't know, so I'm going to be explicit ask ask you to be crystal clear, does it ask for a postcode? What make/model of TV set, does it ask for a postcode?
Also 1st) FYI Black Hill is exactly the same region as Millburn Muir, so postcode would have zero affect on that choice. 2nd) Your aerial has to be pointing the correct way to get stable and reliable reception (from any transmitter) and has to have adequate gain and directivity.
Weather conditions can sometimes give unusual reception, even from aerials not pointing the correct way.
So now, down to the nuts and bolts. How do you know you are actually picking up Black Hill? Was it an assumption because of the extra COM muxes you are getting or have you looked in the Tuning section and checked which UHF channels it's tuned to?
IF not the latter, please do so and post back with the UHF Channel numbers that you are tuned to on the device that you think is tuned to Black Hill and also the one you think is Millburn Muir. Then we can start to look at the real FACTS.
I'm not going to add any further comment at this point whilst waiting for that information.
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Chris.SE1:25 AM
jimmy:
Just to add to the above, first, apologies, you did say that the Humax asked for the postcode BUT that's for the reasons I've already explained, nothing to do with Black Hill or Millburn Muir. You should have 6 UHF channels for what you think is Black Hill (maybe 7 if you get a Local mux) and 3 UHF channels for what you think is Millburn Muir.
(Oh, and your sister is predicted to be better sited for some reception than you are!).
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