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The symbol shows the location of the Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 4,400 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 Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Eyemouth 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C21+ (474.2MHz)238mDTG-400W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C24 (498.0MHz)238mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)238mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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the effected channels

The Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Eyemouth transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 138km west (273°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 118km south-southwest (207°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20082008-1331 Mar 2017-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21+BBCABBCA
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C24D3+4D3+4
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C27BBCBBBCB
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk transmitter area

Sep 1961-Feb 2004Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Eyemouth was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

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Friday, 1 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
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12:09 PM

Eyemouth transmitter - Eyemouth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 4 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM

Eyemouth transmitter - Eyemouth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/09/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Friday, 27 October 2023
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Alan Clerk
4:05 PM

The Eyemouth TV transmitter is once again down today 27/10/2023. Will someone please tell whoever runs this transmitter to get their act together. It is bad enough that it does not even transmit half of the Freeview channels. This is 2023 not 1923.

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Steve Donaldson
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5:39 PM

Alan Clerk: BBC Reception [bbc.co.uk/reception] carries reports on the two BBC multiplexes, PSB1 (BBC A) and PSB3 (BBC B). At the present time, for Eyemouth it has these four entries:

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Timestamp: From 4:00pm to 4:13pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC A
Status: Off the air due to a fault
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Timestamp: From 10:15am to 4:00pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC A
Status: Off the air due to essential engineering
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Timestamp: From 4:00pm to 4:13pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC B HD
Status: Off the air due to a fault
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Timestamp: From 10:15am to 4:00pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC B HD
Status: Off the air due to essential engineering
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According to this, it was off air for 13 minutes from exactly 4 o'clock this afternoon. It does say that this was "due to a fault", but judging by the fact that there are also reports of "essential engineering" it suggests there are engineers on site and we might speculate that they needed to turn it off for the short period.

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Chris.SE
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11:37 PM

Alan Clerk:

Once again? When was the transmitter down recently/previously?
There was Planned Engineering the last week of August and the 1st week of September when the transmitter would have not been off air continuously although there may have been an odd day when it could have been off for a few hours during that period. I can't find any other reports of problems or issues.

Carno is a Freeview "Light" transmitter which only broadcasts the PSB multiplexes and doesn't broadcast the 3 COM multiplexes as you point out. This is normally because the commercial broadcasters don't consider it commercially viable to pay for the extra equipment needed etc due to the small number of households covered by the transmitter..

Perhaps you should consider getting Freesat for a much wider choice of channels. A lot of modern sets have built in satellite tuners so all you would need is a Dish and LNB.

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Monday, 29 January 2024
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Eyemouth transmitter - Eyemouth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/02/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Eyemouth transmitter - Eyemouth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 12/02/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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