Full Freeview on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 940,000 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Black 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Black Hill transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 26km west (271°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 26km west (271°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
Ardtornish A | Transposer | 22 km NW Oban | 15 homes |
Balquhidder | Transposer | 12 km NW Callander | 42 homes |
Benmore B | Active deflector | 50 m WNW Glasgow | 7 homes |
Blair Drummond | Transposer | 5 homes caravan park | |
Blyth Bridge | Active deflector | 30 km SW Edinburgh | 50 homes |
Glendaruel | Active deflector | 40 hotel | 40 homes hotel |
Glendaruel B | Active deflector | 12 homes (second level) |
How will the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
1957-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | ||||
VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | W T | ||||
C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C51tv_off | LG | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | _local | 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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
com7 | (-10.7dB) 42.9kW | |
com8 | (-11.1dB) 39.2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
LG | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Black Hill Freeview Black Hill DAB Black Hill TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Black Hill transmitter area
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Monday, 13 October 2025
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jimmy5:54 PM
While still experiencing the black outs from Millburn Muir which is a Freeview Light transmitter I tried re-tuning out of curiosity and OMG I seem to have tuned in all the blackhill transmitter programs as I now have 148 tv channels instead of about 38 and they are all working perfect with one exception..... there are no HD channels, all the ones from 100-200 are missing. This is all very strange to me as I don't know the tech stuff regarding frequencies. Is there a way on my Humax box to switch between transmitters? Or is this the deal.... I either do without HD but get all the SD ones or if I want HD I need to go back to using Freeview light? I am sure on one of my early Humax boxes (DTR1000) I could switch between frequencies/transmitters but I don't see it on my more modern T2100 box.
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Chris.SE7:51 PM
jimmy:
I thought that this had all been explained to you before.
These weather conditions cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel further.
In this case you have found that you can get the signals from Black Hill BUT this may not remain a stable signal as weather conditions change.
IF you are still getting all the other multiplexes with stable viewing, you could try going to your TV Tuning settings and do a MANUAL tune of UHF channel 40 which is the Black Hill channel for the HD multiplex. Just because the others may be coming through doesn't mean you'll get those HD ones.
On quite a few TVs/Boxes/etc you are sometimes given the choice of a transmitter or region to tune IF it's picking up more than one when you tune BUT you can't "switch" in the manner you are hoping.
IF you can't get the HD ones from Black Hill, then MANUAL tune UHF channel 37 for the HD multiplex from Millburn Muir.but bear in mind the weather conditions may disrupt things.
MANUAL tuning is the way to select what you want, if as in this case your aerial seems to be able to pick up Black Hill, but it may not last of course. In which case try tuning the PSB multiplexes from Millburn Muir (UHF Channels 29,31,37) and the COMs from Black Hill (UHF Channels 41,44,47).
Good luck with that!
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