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The symbol shows the location of the Haltwhistle (Northumberland, England) transmitter which serves 2,600 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 Haltwhistle (Northumberland, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Haltwhistle 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C29 (538.0MHz)240mDTG-400W
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1 BBC One (SD) North East and Cumbria, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C31 (554.0MHz)240mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Border (England)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C37 (602.0MHz)240mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North East and Cumbria, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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The Haltwhistle (Northumberland, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, 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 Haltwhistle transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 58km east (89°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.2m homes 0.7%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 27km west-southwest (252°)
to ITV Border England region - 33 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the Haltwhistle (Northumberland, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-132013-182013-1731 Jul 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TA K T
C29BBCA
C31D3+4
C37BBCB
C50tv_off D3+4D3+4
C55tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCABBCA
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesD3+4
C65C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caldbeck transmitter area

Sep 1961-Feb 2004Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Haltwhistle was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Saturday, 5 February 2011
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Dave
5:40 PM

Why do I get a perfect picture on BBCA, but a lousy picture on D3+4? I have nothing clever in my antenna system, no tuned amplifiers, no very high gain narrow bandwith aerials. The signal strength on D3+4 is OK, generally SNR 27.7, but there are loads of uncorrectable errors.

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Dave
9:39 PM
Haltwhistle

Thanks for the response. I've changed to a lower gain antenna and the problem is fixed. Perhaps interference from another relay station in a side lobe?

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Friday, 22 April 2011
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David Rollinson
5:22 PM

Quick note... you give pre switchover power as 2W (-23db on 400W), BBC give it as 2kW; which I find more credible. Probably a useless bit of trivia, but here is legacy website to back up my claim... http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/tv/tv_pontop.shtml.

Hence
I think it should be 2kW. (400W -6.9dB on 2kW). (NE499DQ)

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Saturday, 23 April 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

7:25 AM

David Rollinson: Apologies, I have fixed that.

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Wednesday, 27 March 2013
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Lynn S.
9:40 PM
Haltwhistle

We had a brief power cut last night and have not been able to get any channels all day. I've checked on the tv settings and it says that i have no signal and can find no programmes. I have tried retuning both auto and manual, have reset to factory settings and have tried unplugging it but am still haveing the same problems. I have no picture or sound at all. Please can you help?
Many thanks

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Lynn S.
9:42 PM
Haltwhistle

Sorry forgot to say, my aerial is on the roof.
Thanks

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

10:38 PM

Lynn S.: Do you use an amplifier/booster? Perhaps this has failed. Even if there is a light on, don't assume that it is working. A faulty or non-powered amplifier will give out no signal.

Could this be in the loft, for example, and maybe powered from a circuit breaker that has tripped and requires resetting.

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Lynn S.
11:02 PM
Haltwhistle

Seems to have sorted itself now. Have been able to tune all channels back in after trying all day. Very frustrating but now sorted.
Cheers.

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