Freeview Light on the Bacup (Lancashire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bacup (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves 5,500 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Bacup (Lancashire, England) 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 Bacup (Lancashire, England) 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 Bacup 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 | C46 (674.0MHz) | 381m | DTG- | 50W |
 1 BBC One (SD) North West, 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 | C43 (650.0MHz) | 381m | DTG- | 50W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 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 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C40 (626.0MHz) | 381m | DTG- | 50W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Bacup (Lancashire, England) 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 Bacup transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 26km south-southwest (197°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 26km south-southwest (197°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Bacup (Lancashire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C50tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | 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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
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 Winter Hill transmitter area
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Saturday, 2 April 2011
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Phil7:50 PM
Bacup
Yet again the bacup transmitter dies a death. Its about time they put their hands in their pockets and upgraded it to something more reliable and improve the woeful second rate selection of channels we currently receive (do we really need a gay and a straight dating channel and the yawnsome parliament channel?) We suffered years of only receiving four channels and sporadic outages often for half a day at a time and since the digital switchover frankly it hasn't improved. Where do I apply for a rebate against my TV license?
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Phil's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Phil: Your are not entitled to a rebate.
I would suggest you install Freesat - see All about Freesat | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and Freesat | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Mike Dimmick1:28 PM
Phil: It's likely that the problem is either the Bacup transmitter's reception of signals from Winter Hill - but there were no reported problems there - or the power supply arrangements.
Write a complaint to the BBC by going to BBC - Reception problems and following the wizard through. Do it every time the service fails, I'm not certain they have any remote monitoring of the site.
You are very close to the transmitter and it transmits at full power in your direction. There is a chance that you could have too much signal and this causes picture break-up when there is no problem at the transmitter. It's hard to give anything to look for because there is no consistency among different Freeview boxes as to how they show the signal level, and how it's calibrated.
If you had a problem and this page, and the BBC page, don't show a problem at that time, try adding an attenuator to reduce the signal levels. (RG47SH)
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Mike Dimmick1:29 PM
Reading
Phi: and if you have a booster or amplifier, try removing it.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
barbara: This is an unplanned outage, the transmitter will be restored as soon as the fault is fixed.
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barbara4:58 PM
does it matter which set top box you have i get about 34 channels including radio at work 2 of the tv's are like mine same amount of channels the other 1 way more channels like it is when i go to rawtenstall why the difference
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barbara: The boxes are the same, you just are using a different transmitter.
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
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Niall12:46 AM
Bacup
I live in Bacup and the post coder checker tells me that i can receive a signal from Winter Hill and Emley moor however we only get the poor freeview light service from the Bacup transmitter. Is it possible to receive Winter Hill or Emley moor transmitters or will we be stuck with the Bacup transmitter??
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jb387:34 AM
Niall: Well Digital UK's trade predictor indicates that you should presently be able to get good reception from Winter Hill, but not Emley Moor until 2012, even then with it still not being quite as good as Winter Hill.
You should try a manual tune on Mux Ch62 (BBC1) and Mux Ch59 (ITV1) these being Winter Hills main channels, Winter Hill being 14 miles away @ 250 degrees from your location, and even although not exact, you might be able to pick Winter Hill up on the rear of your aerial.
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