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Freeview Light on the Crieff (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Crieff (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter which serves 5,000 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 Crieff (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Crieff 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
C23 (490.0MHz)267mDTG-50W
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
C30 (546.0MHz)267mDTG-50W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV North (Dundee 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 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)267mDTG-50W
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 Crieff (Perth and Kinross, 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 Crieff transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 60km south-southwest (205°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 59km east (80°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.

How will the Crieff (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1327 Nov 2019
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCBBBCB
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C30D3+4
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 4 Aug 10 and 18 Aug 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 250W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50W

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

Sep 1961-Jun 1997Grampian 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. Crieff 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
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:11 PM

Fraser Ballantyne: I guess that you mean "BT Vision" rather than "BBC Vision".

The answer to your question is because the number of channels is dependent on which transmitter you are receiving from; this has nothing to do with BT.

The digital terrestrial television network is a two-tier system. All transmitters carry Public Service channels because the Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) have an obligation to provide a public service.

The Commercial (COM) licensees only have a requirement to satisfy their own interest, which is to turn a profit. Thus they aren't interested in using the transmitting stations which serve relatively few users.

See here for an explanation:

Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

The difficulty you have is that you are in a valley and the high ground prevents reception from one of the main transmitters (such as Angus) that carry all channels. You have to rely on the transmitter which relays the PSB signals from Angus (it being located on higher ground where it can get a signal).

I think that in order to get anything more than the Freeview Public Service channels you will have to look to the sky (not the bit that Murdoch owns!).

You can get Freesat, a Freesat recorder. Also, Freesat Freetime is the on-demand service:

Freesat :: free time from freesat

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Friday, 3 October 2014
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James Kyle
8:50 PM

Is free view signal from Crieff transmitter off air today as we have no signal in Comrie

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jb38
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9:01 PM

James Kyle: Yes, as from 15.42hrs today, no reason for having been given as yet.

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Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Monday, 1 February 2016
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derek
3:27 PM

no tv transmission from mast. 15:00pm 1/2/2016

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Thursday, 23 March 2017
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Mairi Sinclair
2:50 PM

When might the works on the Crieff transmitter
be completed? No service since 8.30
this morning

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StevensOnln1
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3:31 PM

Mairi Sinclair: There doesn't seem to have been an advance warning of transmitter work, so it seems likely that the transmitter is off air due to a fault rather than planned engineering work with no estimate of when service will be restored. Do not attempt to retune as this will result in all of your correctly tuned channels being deleted.

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Saturday, 1 April 2017
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Martin Moody
10:26 AM
Crieff

I have had problems for several weeks with Freeview reception from the Crieff transmitter. Channels on the BBCA and BBCB multiplexes are either absent or in case of HD badly scrambled. Channels on the D3+4 seem to be fine. I have a rooftop aerial. Is there a problem with the transmitter?

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StevensOnln1
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11:45 AM

Martin Moody: According to the post above yours, Crieff was off air for several hours last weekend although there are not notices of any work/outages since then. According to the DigitalUK prediction for your postcode there are also weaker signals present from the Black Hill transmitter so check you haven't ended up tuned to those frequencies by mistake. Also make sure you check for any loose or damaged cables behind the TV, as that is the most common cause of reception problems.

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Thursday, 11 April 2019
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Mary Gavin
12:57 PM

When can we expect signal to return today 11.4.19 13.57pm

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