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The symbol shows the location of the Kinlochleven (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Kinlochleven (Highland, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Kinlochleven 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)297mDTG-2W
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
C31 (554.0MHz)297mDTG-2W
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
C37 (602.0MHz)297mDTG-2W
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 Kinlochleven (Highland, 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 Kinlochleven transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 105km south-southeast (158°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 106km south-southeast (158°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

How will the Kinlochleven (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20102010-132013-182013-174 Oct 2017
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TA K T
C1BBCtvwaves
C29BBCA
C31D3+4
C37BBCB
C50tv_off BBCBBBCB
C55tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCABBCA
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCB
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 13 Oct 10 and 27 Oct 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 12W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2.4W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Torosay 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. Kinlochleven 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
Monday, 14 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
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9:09 AM

KINLOCHLEVEN transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 28 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
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10:32 AM

KINLOCHLEVEN transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Sunday, 27 November 2016
Transmitter engineering
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10:34 PM

KINLOCHLEVEN transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 5 December 2016
Transmitter engineering
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4:32 AM

KINLOCHLEVEN transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 12 December 2016
Transmitter engineering
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12:09 PM

KINLOCHLEVEN transmitter - Relay , , Possible service interruptions , , [DUK]

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Tuesday, 21 November 2017
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Rob Mac
6:55 PM

21st Nov 2017 18;00 hours Ground COMMERCIAL TV stations OFF AGAIN, just lost all tv channels kinlochleven "apart from BBC" this gone on for near two months now especially at around 6pm when most view tv

Q. How is it BBC chanels do NOT go off air, BBC the only channels on?

Q. What date do engineers plan the end channels going off?

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StevensOnln1
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11:08 PM

Rob Mac: There has been no engineering work taking place at the transmitter (the last engineering notice is nearly a year old). If the you are loosing channels at the same time every day it is very likely that you are suffering from electrical interference being generated by something operating on a timer, most likely something with an electric motor such as a central heating pump, which would come on at the same time every day.

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StevensOnln1's 3,604 posts GB flag
Thursday, 23 November 2017
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9:24 AM

Rob Mac: Have you considered having your aerial and cable repaired?

What makes you think that the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of transmitter are at fault, rather than your couple of hundred quid telly and aerial?

Have you any idea the penalties that the operators would be liable for to the broadcaster if the transmitter was going off during prime time tv?

You do know that the transmitter operator has 24/7 live monitoring of the transmitters as well, dont you?

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Friday, 18 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
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10:47 AM

Kinlochleven transmitter - Kinlochleven transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 21 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM

Kinlochleven transmitter - Kinlochleven transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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