Freeview Light on the Austwick (Lancashire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Austwick (Lancashire, England) 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.
Which Freeview channels does the Austwick 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 | C45 (666.0MHz) | 237m | DTG-3 | 6W |
1 BBC One North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 601 BBC RB 1, plus 12 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 237m | DTG-3 | 6W |
E4, 3 ITV (Granada), 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 15 Film4, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (Granada), 73 Sewing Quarter, | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 237m | DTG-6 | 6W |
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, |
DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview channels?
The Austwick (Lancashire, 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 Austwick transmitter?

BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 70km south (178°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.

ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 70km south (178°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Austwick (Lancashire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
years | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 10/4/13- | 2013-17 | 31st Mar 2018- | ||
aerial group | B E | B E | B E | B E | B E K | B E K | B E K | ||
C39 | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
C42 | C4 | C4 | C4 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
C45 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
700 | C49 | ITV | ITV | ITV | D3+4 |
orange background for multiplexes names more
green background for transmission frequencies
lilac background for power levels in watts
800MHz band: 4G mobile started in 2013
700MHz band: 4G from 30 June 2020more
600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 4th November and 2nd December 2009.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 31W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-6.9dB) 6.3W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Wednesday, 9 January 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 PM
5:09 PM
AUSTWICK transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:29 today to 12:34 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 10 January 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
AUSTWICK transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:29 yesterday to 12:34 yesterday. [BBC]
link to this |
Friday, 11 January 2019
Transmitter engineering
8:09 AM
8:09 AM
AUSTWICK transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:29 on 09 Jan to 12:34 on 09 Jan. [BBC]
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Thursday, 21 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
AUSTWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 06:28 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:28 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
AUSTWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 06:28 today to 08:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:28 today to 08:00 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 22 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
AUSTWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 06:28 yesterday to 08:00 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 06:28 yesterday to 08:00 yesterday. [BBC]
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