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The symbol shows the location of the Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter which serves 18,000 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) mast?

THORNHILL transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 15:01 until 12 Nov 15:16. Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 14:01 until 12 Nov 15:01. . BBC


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Which Freeview channels does the Thornhill 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
C39 (618.0MHz)374mDTG-100W
Channel icons
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
C42- (641.8MHz)374mDTG-100W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C45 (666.0MHz)374mDTG-100W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland 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?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) 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 Thornhill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 81km north-northwest (340°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 66km east-southeast (121°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

Are there any self-help relays?

AughencheyneActive deflector

How will the Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1331 Jul 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C39BBCA
C42D3+4
C45BBCB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCA
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-D3+4
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 500W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caldbeck Scotland 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. Thornhill 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
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
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r cunningham
4:16 PM
Thornhill

why say transmitter engineering when it is a breakdown or supply fault ,failed at 4am failed again at 11am so why not admit as BREAKDOWN and don't try to treat people as idiot's, implying maintenance engineering

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Sunday, 25 May 2014
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Amisfield
10:09 PM

Completely losing all BBC channels over the last two weeks. Fine most of today (25th May)but again off at 10.00pm with no indications on line of a problem. Checks suggest everything ok here but this is wholly unacceptable.

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James Lamb
10:15 PM
Dumfries

Freeview problem at DG1 3LN. Ariel on roof and I've tried retuning on both my televisions which only resulted in losing all BBC channels which were stored. Has been OK all of today but went off again at 10.00pm. I can still receive ITV, Channel 4 & 5 and have been trying without success to get an answer on line. This has been going on for around 2 weeks.

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Monday, 26 May 2014
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MikeB
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5:58 PM

Amisfield: Since there appears to be no problems with the transmitter, I suspect its your system.

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Wednesday, 25 June 2014
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Trevor Hayward
1:35 PM

13.30 on 25 June 2014 .
No service from thornhill relay transmitter.
Anyone got any ideas on what the fault is and when likely to be resolved. (55.1364,-3.6195) 

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Brian jones
3:39 PM
Dudley

Trevor Hayward : THORNHILL transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions Digital tick (But they don't say what the problem or time frame is. Sorry



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Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Transmitter engineering
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2:20 PM

THORNHILL transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 14:01. . [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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5:21 PM

THORNHILL transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 15:01 until 12 Nov 15:16. Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 14:01 until 12 Nov 15:01. . [BBC]

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