Freeview Light on the Londonderry (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Londonderry (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 37,000 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 Londonderry (Northern Ireland) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Londonderry (Northern Ireland) 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 Freeview channels does the Londonderry 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C29 (538.0MHz) | 286m | DTG- | 2,000W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Northern Ireland, 2 BBC Two Northern Ireland, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C31 (554.0MHz) | 286m | DTG- | 2,000W |
 3 UTV (SD) (UTV), 4 Channel 4 (SD) NI ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 NI ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 UTV +1 (UTV), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C37 (602.0MHz) | 286m | DTG- | 2,000W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Northern Ireland, 102 BBC Two HD Northern Ireland, 103 UTV HD (UTV), 104 Channel 4 HD NI ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Londonderry (Northern Ireland) 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 Londonderry transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,052km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
How will the Londonderry (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Sep 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | W T | W T | B E T | W T | ||||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | _local | _local |
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 10 Oct 12 and 24 Oct 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 5 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-4.9dB) 3.2kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Londonderry Freeview Londonderry DAB Limavady TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady transmitter area
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Thursday, 29 August 2013
joe: For a list of Public Service (PSB) and Commercial (COM) Freeview multiplexes, see:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014
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SH4:28 PM
Why only Freeview LITE for NIs 2nd largest city??? Disgraceful really. Areas of Coleraine and Antrim receive twice the amount of channels.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2015
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Raymond Healy2:04 PM
Londonderry
II reside in BT48 8PH no 3, and I am currently having TV reception difficulties fo both BBC and ITV services. Could you please advise me of the reason.
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Raymond's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Lindsay
5:58 PM
5:58 PM
Raymond Healy: Judging by Google Street View photos taken May 2012 you have a single aerial pointing to Limavady.
This page is for the Londonderry (Sheriff Mountain) transmitter, which is also probably receivable at your location. You could potentially be tuned to Sheriff Mountain for BBC and UTV/C4/C5 rather than Limavady, perhaps because its signals are found before those of Limavady. Sheriff Mountain doesn't broadcast COM channels which carry ITV3, Pick, Dave, 4Music and others, so there's no chance of these being wrongly tuned.
You should go to BBC One and observe the tuned UHF channel number or frequency. Sheriff Mountain broadcasts on C44 (658MHz) and Limavady is on C50 (706MHz). Do the same for UTV: Sheriff Mountain is on C41 (634MHz) and Limavady is C59 (778MHz).
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Monday, 2 November 2015
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Brian Campbell10:06 PM
Hi,I just think it is crazy that the Derry Transmitter is only transmitting free view light,
Giving the size of Derry and that Couny Donegal can pick up the transmitter, I think it should be upgraded to a full service giving that not everyone can pick it up a signal from the Limavady transmitter.
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Tuesday, 4 July 2017
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Bert Gault11:04 AM
Dave Lindsay: is there any time in the future that we can receive the full free view channels from the Londonderry transmitter thank you
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MikeP
11:10 AM
11:10 AM
Bert Gault:
It is highly unlikely that any further channels will be added to a Freeview Lite transmitter, it's just not economically vaible for the broadcaster.
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Tuesday, 26 December 2017
Why in Londonderry we only receive a few channels, we do not get things such as Dave etc. even RTE cannot be seen, it comes up then a thing comes on screen saying Not Supported?
Are we likely to receive all the freeview channels on offer in this area or are we to forever have this substandard service. For licence fee payers it is not acceptable coming into 2018!!
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MikeB1:29 PM
BRIAN QUINN: because Dave etc are commercial channels, and your on a Light transmitter - they just dont think its worth broadcasting to you.
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Wednesday, 27 December 2017
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John King3:00 PM
The only way you can receive the full Freeview line up is trying to pick up Limavady transmitter which transmits them all. Freeview think that since Limavady is close to Londonderry, it should be reasonable for most of the city to pick up Limavady.
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