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Freeview Light on the Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter which serves 1,900 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 Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Kirkcudbright 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+ (474.2MHz)66mDTG-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
C24 (498.0MHz)66mDTG-2W
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)66mDTG-2W
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?

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The Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Kirkcudbright transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 115km north (355°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 74km east (86°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

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

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1330 Sep 2019-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCABBCA
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCBBBCB
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 6W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4.8dB) 2W

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. Kirkcudbright 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.

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Sunday, 27 August 2017
Transmitter engineering
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2:32 PM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 yesterday to 10:24 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 today to 12:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:45 on 25 Aug to 06:50 on 25 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 yesterday to 10:24 yesterday. [BBC]

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5:32 PM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 yesterday to 10:24 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 today to 12:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 today to 16:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:45 on 25 Aug to 06:50 on 25 Aug, HD Digit [BBC]

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8:32 PM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 yesterday to 10:24 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 today to 16:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 today to 12:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:45 on 25 Aug to 06:50 on 25 Aug, HD Digit [BBC]

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11:32 PM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 yesterday to 10:24 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 today to 16:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:10 today to 20:32 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 today to 12:00 today, HD Digital TV Of [BBC]

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Monday, 28 August 2017
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5:32 AM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 on 26 Aug to 10:24 on 26 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 yesterday to 12:00 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:45 on 25 Aug to 06:50 on 25 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 yesterday to 16:21 yes [BBC]

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8:33 AM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 on 26 Aug to 10:24 on 26 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:45 on 25 Aug to 06:50 on 25 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 yesterday to 12:00 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 yesterday to 16:21 yes [BBC]

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Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Transmitter engineering
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5:33 AM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 on 26 Aug to 10:24 on 26 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:45 on 25 Aug to 06:50 on 25 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 on 27 Aug to 12:00 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 on 27 Aug to 16:21 on [BBC]

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11:34 AM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 on 26 Aug to 10:24 on 26 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 on 27 Aug to 12:00 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:10 on 27 Aug to 20:32 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 on 27 Aug to 16:21 on [BBC]

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Wednesday, 30 August 2017
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5:32 AM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:20 on 26 Aug to 10:24 on 26 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 on 27 Aug to 16:21 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 on 27 Aug to 12:00 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:10 on 27 Aug to 20:32 on [BBC]

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Thursday, 31 August 2017
Transmitter engineering
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5:32 AM

KIRKCUDBRIGHT transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:56 on 27 Aug to 12:00 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 16:18 on 27 Aug to 16:21 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 20:10 on 27 Aug to 20:32 on 27 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 02:31 on 28 Aug to 02:34 on 2 [BBC]

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