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The symbol shows the location of the Newtownards (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 2,200 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 Newtownards (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Newtownards 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
C32 (562.0MHz)34mDTG-2W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Northern Ireland, 2 BBC Two Northern Ireland, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C34 (578.0MHz)34mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 UTV (SD) (UTV), 4 Channel 4 (SD) NI ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 NI ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 UTV +1 (UTV),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C35 (586.0MHz)34mDTG-2W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Northern Ireland, 102 BBC Two HD Northern Ireland, 103 UTV HD (UTV), 104 Channel 4 HD NI ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three 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
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the effected channels

The Newtownards (Northern Ireland) 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 Newtownards transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,043km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,043km northeast (51°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

How will the Newtownards (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TA K T
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C50tv_offBBCA
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C55tv_offD3+4
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C59tv_offBBCB
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 10 Oct 12 and 24 Oct 12.

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

Analogue 1-4 11W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2.2W

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

Oct 1959-May 2006Ulster Television
May 2006-Dec 2014UTV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Newtownards 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.

Comments
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

9:35 PM

NEWTOWNARDS transmitter - Over the next week Newtownards relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

9:50 AM

NEWTOWNARDS transmitter - 25 October 2011: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 Digital services - Not Applicable [DUK] Over the next week Newtownards relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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K.Smith
6:38 PM

does the Newtowards transmiter serve the Ballywalter area?

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

7:16 PM

K.Smith: Do you have a postcode in mind?

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Saturday, 17 March 2012
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Peter Henderson
sentiment_satisfiedSilver

7:51 PM
Newtownabbey

K.Smith: Ballywalter is covered by the Divis transmitter.

Some of the transmitters in Scotland (Cambrett Hill, Portpatrick, and Stranraer) and the Isle of Mann (Beary Peark) are also receivable in the area.

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Peter Henderson's 240 posts GB flag
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Drew Hunter
8:29 AM

I thought I would be able to get RTE channels and TG4 on freeview on change over. At the present time I am not.

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

10:48 AM

Drew Hunter: The Newtownards transmitter does not broadcast those channels. Knowledge of your postcode or nearby postcode such as a shop would allow a prediction of whether you might receive these services from one of the transmitters that do carry them.

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gerry
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

10:58 AM
Londonderry

Dave Lindsay: Hi

Done full retune as at 6.30AM this morning from Limavady Transmitter via digital aerial cannot get - 3 UTV (UTV), 4 Channel 4 NI ads, 5 Channel 5 NI ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 NI ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 UTV+1 (UTV), 10 ITV 3, 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 18 others 11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 62 TV Stars, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 90 TV News, plus 11 others Can some investigate why not receiving these and why they are not running as max strength, please investigate.

Getting the rest of the channels but none of the above mentioned above from Limavady. can you investigate and check why getting 36 channels from limavady on freeview and not UTV,C4 or C5 or ITV 2 or ITV 3 Can this be successfully resolved ASAP.

Thanks


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Monday, 15 September 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

12:09 PM

NEWTOWNARDS transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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