Freeview Light on the Beecroft Hill (Leeds, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Beecroft Hill (Leeds, England) transmitter which serves 21,000 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 Beecroft Hill (Leeds, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Beecroft Hill (Leeds, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Beecroft Hill 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 | C37 (602.0MHz) | 197m | DTG- | 200W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Yorkshire, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 197m | DTG- | 200W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C45 (666.0MHz) | 197m | DTG- | 200W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Yorkshire, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
| LLS | V -10dB | C39 (618.0MHz) | 197m | DTG-12 | 20W |
 from 22nd September 2014: 7 Made in Leeds, | |||||
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Beecroft Hill (Leeds, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Beecroft Hill transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 7km east (101°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 5km east (100°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Beecroft Hill (Leeds, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | E T | |||||
| C37 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C39 | _local | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C56tv_off | LLS | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200W | |
| LLS | (-17dB) 20W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Friday, 1 December 2017
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Martin Epstein5:24 PM
We have the Beecroft Hill TV satellite signal which gives us very few decent Freeview channels. Can we readjust our aerial to Emley Moor which is much better and from where we can get Talking Pictures.
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StevensOnln15:33 PM
Martin Epstein: You do not receive a satellite signal from any ground based transmitter. If you put your full postcode into this website you'll get a coverage prediction which will tell you whether it would be possible to receive Emley Moor at your location.
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Friday, 8 December 2017
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Martin Epstein9:47 AM
Hi Stephen, my postcode is LS285TD. I am very keen to get the Talking Pictures channel. Many thanks
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StevensOnln110:08 AM
Martin Epstein: Emley Moor should give a reasonable signal strength on most multiplexes, although COM4 is predicted to poor until early 2020 when it changes frequency. You would likely need a new wideband aerial to receive all the multiplexes broadcast by Emley Moor.
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Martin Epstein10:59 PM
Just one final query, is buying a Freeview HDR the answer, cheers
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StevensOnln111:14 PM
Martin Epstein: If you want to receive a different transmitter you will need to get your aerial realigned/replaced. Buying a Freeview HD receiver will get you more channels, but it won't receive a different transmitter with your existing aerial.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2018
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DD6:55 AM
Why is the Beecroft Hill signal/reception so poor that we do not even receive half of the freeview channels.
This is embarrassing in the 21st century, and something which you would expect of a third world country, not Yorkshire!
Even channels received such as film4 are of poor quality.
When will this be upgraded to come into line with the rest of the country, as people dependant on this mast are missing out.
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MikeB10:58 AM
DD: Check if you can tune to a better transmitter, but the reality is that Light transmitters are not worth most commercial broadcasters time - too much money for too few viewers.
If you want more channels and you cant get a better transmitter, then try Freesat.
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MikeP
2:27 PM
2:27 PM
DD:
Please provide a full post code so that we can check what transmitters are available in your area and what the reception conditions are like.
Please note that there are basically two types of transmitter, main one that give all the possible channels (there are 30 of those covering around 80% of the population) plus the Freeview Light transmitters covering small areas that have problems getting signals from main transmitters. The Freeview Light ones are required to carry all the PSB channels but it is entirely up to commercial broadcasters whether they pay for their channel to be on a Light transmitter. So it is not case of being embarrassing but a fact of commercial life. There are no known plans to upgrade any Freeview Light transmitter at present.
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Monday, 23 July 2018
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Martin Epstein 10:42 PM
Well said DD, I have lived in Farsley for 30 years and suffered the same poor service from Beecroft Hill. For years we couldn't get Channel 5 and now receive a poor Freeview choice
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