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The symbol shows the location of the Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmitter which serves 7,300 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 Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Glasgow West Central 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
C21 (474.0MHz)93mDTG-6W
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
C24 (498.0MHz)93mDTG-6W
Channel icons
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)93mDTG-6W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 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, 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 Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Glasgow West Central transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 3km south (176°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 3km south (171°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

How will the Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-135 Sep 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TA K T
C21BBCA
C24D3+4
C27BBCB
C50tv_offBBCA
C55tv_offBBCB
C56tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C59tv_offD3+4
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C68BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.

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

Analogue 1-4 32W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 6.4W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Black Hill transmitter area

Aug 1957-Jun 1997Scottish Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014STV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Glasgow West Central 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
Friday, 1 May 2015
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MikeP
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9:54 PM
Trowbridge

Grant:

For any contributor to this site to offer any meaningful assistance we would need to know your location. You can best do that by providing a Post Code (or that of a nearby shop or Post Office). Then it would be possible to work out exactly where you are in relation to the transmitter you mention and any surrounding hills or tall/solid buildings - even houses can block TV signals!

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Saturday, 2 May 2015
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jb38
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12:03 AM

Grant: With regards to the aerial being placed next to the window, does the window referred to face towards the Clevedon Road railway bridge (@ 81 degrees) where the transmitter is located?

The point that has to be appreciated being, that the Kelvindale transmitter only rated at 2 watts output with its transmission being vertically polarised, and even although its located at only 0.6 miles away from you it cannot be taken as a foregone conclusion that you will receive a workable signal from it under your particular circumstances.

You should try a test by going into the tuning menu on your TV or box, selecting "manual" tune" followed by entering C52 (Kelvindales BBC) into the box but "not" followed by pressing search or scan!, because on most devices if any signal is being received the level / quality of will appear on the indicator bars no matter how low the signal might be.

If nothing is being indicated? leave this menu on the screen and move the aerial around to see if there are any traces of a signal, as this procedure causes the tuner to act like a form of signal meter devoid of threshold cut off levels.


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jb38
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7:24 PM

Grant : Small correction to that said regarding the location of your local transmitter, it is of course Dalsholm Road railway bridge (next to the recycling centre) and not Clevedon Road.

The other point I ommited to mention being to try the test twice, one with the gain control fully advanced, and the other with it set at minimum.

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Sunday, 24 May 2015
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:31 PM

GLASGOW WEST CENTRAL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 20:03 today to 21:13 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:03 today to 21:13 today. [BBC]

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Monday, 25 May 2015
Transmitter engineering
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4:33 AM

GLASGOW WEST CENTRAL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 20:03 yesterday to 21:13 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:03 yesterday to 21:13 yesterday. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:30 AM

GLASGOW WEST CENTRAL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 20:03 on 24 May to 21:13 on 24 May, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:03 on 24 May to 21:13 on 24 May. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 29 July 2015
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Jim Main
8:58 AM

The STV+1 service from Glasgow West Central carries the Glasgow sub-region of STV, not the Edinburgh one. Where the confusion may arise is that the STV Edinburgh news is transmitted on the plus one service so that Edinburgh regional viewers who are pointing towards Blackhill may get their own news programme on the plus one service.

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Monday, 11 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
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11:31 AM

GLASGOW WEST CENTRAL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:06 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:06 today. [BBC]

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11:31 PM

GLASGOW WEST CENTRAL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:06 today to 20:20 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:06 today to 20:20 today. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
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5:31 AM

GLASGOW WEST CENTRAL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:06 yesterday to 20:20 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:06 yesterday to 20:20 yesterday. [BBC]

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