Full Freeview on the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmitter which serves 700,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) mast?
Pontop Pike transmitter - Pontop Pike transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Pontop Pike 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Pontop Pike transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 15km northeast (42°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 12km north-northeast (29°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
Are there any self-help relays?
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| Low Haber | Active deflector | West Allen Dale, 18 kn SW Hexham | caravan site |
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How will the Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | ||||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
| C5 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | com7tv_off | |||||||
| C56tv_off | LNE | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-11.6dB) 34.6kW | |
| com7 | (-11.7dB) 33.8kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| LNE | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Pontop Pike Freeview Pontop Pike TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Pontop Pike transmitter area
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016
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John Leather7:06 PM
Our reception since Saturday has basically been dreadful. Most of the weekend all our channels were off, and then Monday afternoon to present time, lots of channels pixelate and then go to no signal. Basically been unwatchable now for five days.
What I don't understand is your map shows where green is the best reception and other small areas are yellow and a not so good reception. Yet the whole of Guisborough is colourless which would indicate that Guisborough is a no go zone for Pontop Pike.
Our aerial installer said we cannot get Bilsdale because of the hills,and that Pontop Pike is the designated transmitter for Guisborough.
Can you make any sense and give us guidance. Kindest regards, John.
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Richard Cooper7:28 PM
Norwich
John Leather: The transmitter that serves Guisborough is designated by Digital UK as Bilsdale West Moor, rather than Pontop Pike. Whilst Pontop Pike is the key transmitter for most of Northumberland, Bilsdale serves much of Teeside and North Yorkshire. Looks like your aerial installer needs to return to college or something! If you need guidance it is simply that high atmospheric pressure conditions have been disrupting Freeview reception since Sunday night, especially along the Eastern coasts of the UK. You need to wait until we are under the influence of lower pressure conditions, which are forecast to occur within the next couple of days, before your reception improves. What you must NOT do, under any circumstances, is a retune, because your equipment would then forget the channels it used to receive before the high pressure arrived. Hope this helps, Richard, Norwich.
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 24 July 2016
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David5:46 PM
Com 8 has been active for over a year now. Why is there only two channels sharing 24 hours? There should be another 5 slots for HD channels plus SD channels like Com 7.
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StevensOnln15:55 PM
David: The BBC are about to use it for additional temporary red button channels for the Olympics, but other than that presumably there aren't any other broadcasters interested in launching HD services on Freeview beyond those already available.
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Monday, 9 January 2017
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Sandra bousfield5:11 PM
How do I tune in my TVs Ariel from s/w to n/e signal
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017
MikeP
7:04 PM
7:04 PM
Sandra Bousfield:
You do not 'retune' a TV aerial. The availability of of any particular region depends on what the transmitter is set to radiate. To find that out, we need your full post code.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2017
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John Hewett12:38 PM
Why is the signal strength of Radio 4 FM from Pontop Pike less than the other BBC FM radio stations?
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017
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Ian R. Palmer4:27 PM
cbs drama has disappeared from my channel after last re-scan. I was not awre it was to be removed from Freeview. My location is NE25YD and I am using Poptop Pike as my transmitter.
Any reason for this?
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Friday, 3 February 2017
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Robert Driscoll3:44 PM
Hi, Could you please tell me when I will be able to receive BBC Newcastle in HD.
Cheers, Rob.
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StevensOnln13:59 PM
Robert Driscoll: The BBC haven't announced any dates for any regional news programs to begin broadcasting in HD yet. Although they have previously suggested that they could start rolling out HD regions in England this year, but no further details have been announced yet.
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