Freeview Light on the Leicester (Leicester, England) transmitter

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

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52.624,-1.139 or 52°37'27"N 1°8'19"W

LE2 7GF

The symbol shows the location of the Leicester (Leicester, England) transmitter which serves 4,100 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 Leicester (Leicester, England) 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 Leicester 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	C25 (506.0MHz)	85m	DTG-	2W
	1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C28 (530.0MHz)	85m	DTG-	2W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That's TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C22 (482.0MHz)	85m	DTG-	2W
	46 5SELECT, 57 U&Eden, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three 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 Leicester (Leicester, England) 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 Leicester transmitter?

BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 36km north (0°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.

ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 55km west-southwest (253°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)

How will the Leicester (Leicester, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	7 Feb 2018-
	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T
C22	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C25	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C28	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C32	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_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 17 Aug 11 and 31 Aug 11.

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

Analogue 1-4	13W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-8.1dB) 2W

Local transmitter maps

Leicester Freeview Waltham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)

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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent 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. Leicester 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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Richard
7:03 PM

for any tv ! Why is this?

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jb38

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7:37 PM

Richard: Its quite impossible for anyone to assist when you fail to provide your location, this in the form of a post code or one from nearby as only then can the that covers your area be checked on, as you could be located anywhere in the UK and likewise covered by a multitude of different transmitters.

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David
6:56 PM
Leicester

Evening,

We are in Oadby, and currently get midlands tv and want to get east midlands tv.

Which way should I point the ?

It looks like it is currently pointing west, and it is a bit of a struggle to get up to shift it, so just wanted to check if its worth changing it north?

Cheers

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David's: D's Freeview map D's terrain plot D's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage

Dave Lindsay

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7:26 PM

David: is curently undergoing works which, according to posts made on this website, is causing issues for some fringe viewers. I suggest that you wait until these are complete until you adjust your . You may also wish to retain the aerial as a backup.

For aerial information on Waltham, see:

Waltham TV Transmitter

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MZ
11:32 PM

I have just lost all my hd in oadby please......they were there before

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alimahomed
5:41 PM

I am not getting any bbc tried retuning but no joy this has stopped since last week I am in LE5 area please hewlp

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KMJ,Derby

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8:22 PM

alimahomed: If you normally receive from the , the of mux BBCA has changed to . Try to do a manual tune for C49. Is there any signal indicated, and if so what is the if frequency C49 is entered into the manual tuning menu? If there is found and you use a communal it may be that adjustments are needed to let the new frequency through. (Ask your neighbours if anyone is having the same problem.) In that case you would need to contact the landlord or building management company for that to be carried out.

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David flannery
1:10 AM

on free view and itv. inn . Need to know what direction to point aerials. you can advise, thanks, D.G.Flannery.

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Chris.SE

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1:32 AM

David flannery:

I'm afraid without a full postcode we can't answer that question as we don't know where your locale is in relation to the (s) you might receive. Note that the transmitter has a limited choice of as it's a and only transmits the 3 PSB multiplexes, see the very top of this page. You may be able to get satisfactory from a main transmitter and get all 6 multiplexes.

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