Full Freeview on the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 36,000 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 Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter._______
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-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) 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 Brougher Mountain 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-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) 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 Brougher Mountain transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,048km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
How will the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Sep 2019 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C5 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | |||||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C30 | -NIMM | NIMM | |||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C37 | BBCB |
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 10 Oct 12 and 24 Oct 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| NIMM | (-20dB) 1000W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-23dB) 500W |
Local transmitter maps
Brougher Mountain Freeview Brougher Mountain TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Brougher Mountain transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 27 June 2019
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Brian Maguire9:47 PM
Keep it country Ch87 gone of the air today. Brougher Mountain Transmitter. 27/06/2019
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StevensOnln110:41 PM
Brian Maguire: Keep It Country has closed on Freeview. It is to be replaced next week by Spotlight TV, which is due to be available via internet streaming on compatible connected TVs.
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Friday, 12 July 2019
Saturday, 13 July 2019
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Chris.SE12:09 AM
peter:
See the post above yours from StevensOnln1
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Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
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BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 5 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
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BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 yesterday to 04:38 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 yesterday to 04:38 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 6 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:08 AM
5:08 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 on 04 Sep to 04:38 on 04 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 on 04 Sep to 04:38 on 04 Sep. [BBC]
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Thursday, 12 September 2019
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George4:44 PM
Why can I no longer receive the HD channels from brougher since the 4th September retune.
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MikeP
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5:44 PM
George:
The BBC B HD multiplex is still on channel 37. There are no COM7 or COM8 services at all.
heck About us | Freeview for all the current services available from Brougher Mountain transmitter.
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nobody9:26 PM
MikeP: According to this Digital UK document:
About us | Freeview
BBCB changed from UHF ch25 to ch37 on the 4th September.
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