Freeview Light on the Hawick (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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55.424,-2.777 or 55°25'25"N 2°46'38"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Hawick (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 7,200 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 Hawick (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Hawick 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C26 (514.0MHz)	199m	DTG-	10W
	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	C23 (490.0MHz)	199m	DTG-	10W
	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), 71 That's TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C30 (546.0MHz)	199m	DTG-	10W
	46 5SELECT, 57 U&Eden, 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, 203 CBBC HD, 204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

The Hawick (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 English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, U&Drama 1, U&W.

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 Hawick transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 107km west-northwest (299°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 61km south (189°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

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

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2008	2008-13	14 Aug 2019
	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T
C23	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C26	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C29	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C30					BBCB
C33	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves

_{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	50W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 10W

Local transmitter maps

Hawick Freeview Selkirk TV region BBC Scotland Border (Scotland)

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

Sep 1961-Feb 2004	Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hawick 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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