Full Freeview on the Idle (Bradford, England) transmitter
 | Google map |  | Bing map |  | Google Earth |  | 53.833,-1.754 or 53°49'57"N 1°45'14"W |  | BD18 1JP |
The symbol shows the location of the Idle (Bradford, England) transmitter which serves 21,000 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 Idle (Bradford, England) 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Idle (Bradford, England) 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 Idle 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Idle (Bradford, England) 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 Idle transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 15km east-southeast (105°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 13km east-southeast (105°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Idle (Bradford, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | |||||
| C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250W | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 10W |
Local transmitter maps
Idle Freeview Emley Moor TV region BBC Yorkshire Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
|
|
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:56 AM
10:56 AM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Dec 10:00. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 9 Dec 10:27 until 9 Dec 14:49. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Transmitter engineering
1:56 PM
1:56 PM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Dec 10:00 until 10 Dec 11:23. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 9 Dec 10:27 until 9 Dec 14:49. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Monday, 14 December 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:43 PM
4:43 PM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Dec 10:00 until 10 Dec 11:23. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Friday, 8 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
7:54 AM
7:54 AM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Monday, 11 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
1:52 PM
1:52 PM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 11 Jan 10:48 until 11 Jan 12:03. Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:11 AM
5:11 AM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 11 Jan 10:48 until 11 Jan 12:03. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Thursday, 11 February 2021
Transmitter engineering
2:05 PM
2:05 PM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 11 Feb 12:09. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Transmitter engineering
4:55 PM
4:55 PM
IDLE transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 11 Feb 12:09 until 11 Feb 12:20. . [BBC]
| link to this comment |
Friday, 19 February 2021
Hi we live at 797 Leeds Road Idle Bradford BD108UJ and are having repeated pixelation and signal lose which lasts about 10 seconds several times a week, the mast is located on the apex of the roof externally pointing to the Idle transmitter and has a mast head amplifier and a really good new 4 cannel booster in the loft which supplies power for the mast head amplifier and feeds the signal to 4 rooms although only 1 or 2 TV's are on at any one time, we mainly watch standard definition but have tried HD but find the signal fails or cannot be received so revert back the SD, each TV also has a small booster, we recently bought a new Humax Smart box which enables up to four channels to be recorded at the same time but have found the problem is worse when three or four channels are set for recording, I have checked the signal strength on the Humax when the signal is lost and it shows 98/100% strength and 100% quality so I am at a lose as to the cause, any help will be appreciated thank you Mike
| link to this comment |
S
StevensOnln12:21 PM
Michael Swift: If you are seeing close to 100% signal strength then you are probably suffering from the effects of having too much signal, which is effectively deafening the tuner so it can no longer decode the signal. The Idle transmitter is only 1km away and you appear to be amplifying the signal several times, so I would start by removing the boosters behind each TV as they are probably completely unnecessary anyway. Did an aerial installer recommend fitting the mast head amplifier, as that plus the distribution amplifier in the loft may still too much amplification?
| link to this comment |
Select more comments
Your comment please