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The symbol shows the location of the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 4,490,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) mast?
Crystal Palace transmitter - Crystal Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Crystal Palace 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 Crystal Palace transmitter?
BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 12km north-northwest (335°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 11km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Charlton Athletic | Transposer | Redeveloped north stand Charlton Athletic Football Club | 130 homes |
| Deptford | Transposer | south-east London | 100 homes |
| Greenford | Transposer | 12 km N Heathrow Airport | 203 homes |
| Hendon | Transposer | Graham Park estate | 50 homes |
| White City | Transposer | 9 km W central London | 80 homes |
How will the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 21 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | LW | ||||||||
| C30 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | -BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | com7 | |||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| 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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-13.7dB) 43.1kW | |
| com8 | (-14dB) 39.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LW | (-17dB) 20kW |
Local transmitter maps
Crystal Palace Freeview Crystal Palace DAB Crystal Palace AM/FM Crystal Palace TV region BBC London LondonWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
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Wednesday, 29 June 2022
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Chris.SE9:06 PM
ROGER CATHERWOOD:
Hmm. Wish we knew Roger, absolutely nothing has been said by anyone. Anything being said is total speculation. The minute anyone hears anything definitive I'm sure it'll receive widespread publicity.
You need to hassle DCMS and tell Nadine never mind selling C4, get on with DVB/T2 !
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Monday, 4 July 2022
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cris10:27 AM
Hi.
I live in London and just did a retune on my TVs, and to my great delight I now see that BBC4HD has turned up on c30, now showing up on no 106 with BBC 3HD on no 109, however the EPG simply states " BBC Four HD returns soon". I've no idea when this changed, does anybody know when BBC4HD will start broadcasting on this channel?
Many thanks.
Cris
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Chris.SE1:33 PM
cris:
It was as a result of the closure of the temporary multiplex COM7 on June 30th.
See https://www.freeview.co.u…2022
There's no detail yet provided about how soon they'll be back on PSB3
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec…tion
We believe it's all part and parcel of the equipment changes that will eventually enable Local Regional News on BBC1 HD and that there have been some delays on equipment availability due the current global situation resulting from the pandemic.
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cris3:21 PM
@Chris.SE.
Many thanks. Considering the Local News in HD has had a message telling us that it's not available yet but they're working on it for the past 10 years, I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for BBC4HD, it'll be a lovely surprise one day, probably on the day they announce that BBC4 is closing.
All the best.
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Friday, 15 July 2022
I have tried to retune PSB3 which is listed as freq ch 48 to get TBNuk on prog ch 66 but have got another prog - CBS Reality - instead. On phoning Freeview they said it should be freq ch 30 for this programme. Could you check this please, many thanks, Ray
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StevensOnln19:52 AM
Raymond Taylor: PSB3 has always been on UHF channel 30 from Crystal Palace, the error on this page has been acknowledged by regular contributors numerous times but only the site owner is able to fix it.
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Chris.SE10:06 PM
Raymond Taylor:
A reiteration of what I've posted before -
As the site owner hasn't had time to update the errors, I've posted this (one of many) -
In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6, Local multiplex, the UHF channels for Crystal Palace are as follows
C23, C26, C30, C25, C22, C28, C35 (London Local mux).
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplex.
Note COM7 has now closed (it was only ever a temporary multiplex).
Worth repeating now and again for those that aren't aware.
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Monday, 26 September 2022
@Chris.SE
Step 2 - 700MHz clearance data is working for this and all transmitters. I need to update the "over time" table too to add the 700 clearance date.
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Chris.SE3:37 PM
Brian Butterworth:
Thanks Brian. I'm not sure if/when the update will work its way through, but PSB3/BBCB HD still showing at C48 instead of C30 (both main and over time list).
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