Full Freeview on the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 570,000 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.
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Bilsdale 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Bilsdale transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 74km north-northwest (336°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 75km north-northwest (333°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
Garsdale (pin Fold) | Transposer | 63 homes (coverage together with SH34) | |
Hawsker Bottom | Active deflector | 150 caravans | |
Langthwaite | Active deflector | 30 homes |
How will the Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | |||||
C21 | BBCB | ||||||||
C23 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
C24 | _local | D3+4 | |||||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
C27 | BBCA | ||||||||
C29 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C31 | com7 | ||||||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C37 | com8 | ||||||||
C40 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C43 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C46 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
com7 | (-14.3dB) 18.5kW | |
com8 | (-14.4dB) 18.1kW | |
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-19.2dB) 6kW | |
Mux 1* | (-20.2dB) 4.8kW | |
Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW |
Local transmitter maps
Bilsdale Freeview Bilsdale DAB Bilsdale AM/FM Bilsdale TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bilsdale transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 6 December 2023
Thursday, 11 January 2024
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StevensOnln13:22 PM
BBC Local & National FM and DAB stations are moving back to the main Bilsdale tower on 16th January. Listeners with poor reception may wish to try retuning after the 16th, see the link below for frequency information. The announcement does not state whether any commercial stations are moving.
Changes to BBC Radio in Teesside and North Yorkshire - 16 Jan 2024 | Help receiving TV and radio
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Friday, 12 January 2024
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StevensOnln15:57 PM
StevensOnln1: The BBC article has now been updated, the work has been postponed (presumably due to the predicted poor weather conditions).
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Thursday, 18 January 2024
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StevensOnln110:29 AM
StevensOnln1: The transfer of FM and DAB services has now been rescheduled for 23rd January.
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Friday, 19 January 2024
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Chris.SE12:06 AM
StevensOnln1:
Thanks :) I wonder what the weather forecast for then Is?
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Thursday, 19 September 2024
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Sharon Spencer9:57 PM
Channels no working and scrambled
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Chris.SE11:26 PM
Sharon Spencer:
There's no reported faults for Bilsdale and the transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering.
You haven't been specific as to which (groups of) channels are affected. Is it all or just some and which?
It's most likely to be current tropospheric weather conditions accompanying the high pressure.
High pressure could affect reception across the UK this week | Freeview
High pressure currently affecting TV & Radio services across parts of the UK - 19 September | Help receiving TV and radio
I hope you have NOT retuned whilst you had No signal or badly pixellated pictures.
IF you were correctly tuned to start with, then retuning in those situations will most likely just clear you correct tuning. You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded.
Check in your TV Tuning section, If you are no longer correctly tuned, then MANUALLY Retune EACH multiplex's UHF Channel as listed at the very top of this page.
As you haven't given a full postcode we can't comment on your predicted reception or whether you might be vulnerable to other interference such as that from new/upgraded phone masts.
Have you received a postcard from Restore TV?
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Monday, 30 September 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:06 PM
5:06 PM
Bilsdale transmitter - Bilsdale transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 7 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Bilsdale transmitter - Bilsdale transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 14 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:11 AM
5:11 AM
Bilsdale transmitter - Bilsdale transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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