Freeview Light on the Hawick (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter
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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._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)




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 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! christmas, GREAT! movies extra, GREAT! movies, 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 Christmas, 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 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), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C30 (546.0MHz) | 199m | DTG- | 10W |
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 |
Are you trying to watch these 44 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 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! christmas, GREAT! movies extra, GREAT! movies, 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 Christmas, 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 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 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk transmitter area
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:53 yesterday to 08:07 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:53 yesterday to 08:07 yesterday [BBC]
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Thursday, 13 October 2011
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:53 on 11 Oct to 08:07 on 11 Oct HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:53 on 11 Oct to 08:07 on 11 Oct [BBC]
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Sunday, 18 November 2012
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R. Simmonds2:39 PM
Why,in the past week,have we been losing
reception and is still happening,
Bonchester Bridge,
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Friday, 9 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:31 AM
7:31 AM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 today to 02:58 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 today to 02:58 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
4:31 PM
4:31 PM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 today to 12:40 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 today to 02:58 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 today to 12:40 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 today to 02:58 today. [BBC]
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Saturday, 10 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 yesterday to 12:40 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 yesterday to 02:58 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 yesterday to 12:40 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 yesterday to 02:58 ye [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:32 PM
7:32 PM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 yesterday to 02:58 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 yesterday to 12:40 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 yesterday to 02:58 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 yesterday to 12:40 ye [BBC]
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Sunday, 11 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 on 09 Jan to 02:58 on 09 Jan, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 on 09 Jan to 12:40 on 09 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 on 09 Jan to 02:58 on 09 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 on 09 Jan to 12:40 on [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
HAWICK transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 on 09 Jan to 12:40 on 09 Jan, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 on 09 Jan to 02:58 on 09 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air from 02:58 on 09 Jan to 12:40 on 09 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:47 on 09 Jan to 02:58 on [BBC]
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