Freeview Light on the Poplar (Greater London, England) transmitter

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

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51.513,-0.010 or 51°30'46"N 0°0'35"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Poplar (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 3,300 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 Poplar (Greater London, 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 Poplar 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	C39 (618.0MHz)	90m	DTG-	4W
	1 BBC One (SD) London, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C45 (666.0MHz)	90m	DTG-	4W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (London), 4 Channel 4 (SD) London ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 London ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (London), 71 That's TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C42 (642.0MHz)	90m	DTG-	4W
	46 5SELECT, 57 U&Eden, 101 BBC One HD London, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV London), 104 Channel 4 HD London 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 Poplar (Greater London, 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 Poplar transmitter?

BBC London 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London W1A 1AA, 9km west (273°)
to BBC London region - 55 masts.

ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 7km west (278°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.

How will the Poplar (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	31 Mar 2018-
	E	E	E	B E K T	B E K T
C39				BBCA	BBCA
C42				BBCB	BBCB
C45	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C49_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves
C66	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C68	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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.

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

Analogue 1-4	20W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 4W

Local transmitter maps

Poplar Freeview Crystal Palace TV region BBC London London

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area

Sep 1955-Jul 1968	Associated-Rediffusion†
Sep 1955-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1992	Thames†
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	London Weekend Television♦
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Carlton†
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc♦
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. Poplar 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?

Dave Lindsay

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4:03 PM

Lesley Horner: " Light" is the unofficial term given to the service where only PSB can be received.

There are over 1,000 small transmitters (which cover a small area and serve a small number of viewers) which are Freeview Light.

The is one such .

See here for a full list of by :

DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex

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Lesley Horner
4:16 PM

Break in BBC from yesterday (51.5116,-0.0130)

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Briantist

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5:38 PM

Lesley Horner: There was nothing reported, oficially. Radio & Television Service says "no problems".

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Donald
4:02 PM

I live in Woodford. My screen has gone completely black. No information at all is visible. I did some digging around to find information and according to Freview customer my is from . However, on the map of my signal route the green line also passes directly through the .
I am not convinced that the fault with my signal which is exactly the symptom described for the Poplar works has happened during the period of the works and is unrelated to to the works.
My questions are:
When will these works finish
What do we do to recover from the blank screen
Does someone just need to pu the power up
Does the Poplar transmitter act as a for Crystal Palace

There is generally poor signal in my area and it was only a few weeks ago I bought a poster and things were working absolutely fine, until sometime on Thursday.

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Steve Donaldson

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12:13 AM

Donald: It's quite safe to say that you won't be tuned to the in Woodford. The Poplar transmitter was built in 1991 for those in the Poplar and Common areas who had poor owing to the Canary Wharf casting a shadow in the signal from . The coverage map at the top of this page gives an idea of the sort of area the Poplar transmitter may be available.

In Woodford you are most likely using Crystal Palace. When you say you have no information at all visible, then do you not have the on-screen display that you can bring up? Likewise the menu? If it were not to be bringing these up when the TV is turned on then that suggests a TV fault.

If you do have on-screen display and menu available then it may be worth seeing if it is an issue caused by a nearby mobile phone base starting using the band, frequencies previously used for TV. This can sometimes cause problems with reception and the solution is usually to a filter. Restore TV is the organisation charged with alleviating TV reception issues caused by mobile phone base stations. They should send a free filter should they think you could be potentially affected.

If you are using a then the filter must go before it. If the booster is on the with the aerial then they should send an engineer to fit an outdoor filter on the roof.

Enter your postcode into the Restore TV site to see if they sent you a postcard: https://restoretv.uk/post…ure/

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