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The symbol shows the location of the Rostrevor (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 3,000 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 Rostrevor (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Rostrevor 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
C23 (490.0MHz)199mDTG-23W
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
C26 (514.0MHz)199mDTG-23W
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
C30 (546.0MHz)199mDTG-23W
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 Rostrevor (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 Rostrevor transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,041km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,041km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

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

1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
B E TB E TB E TB E K TA K T
C23BBCA
C26D3+4
C30BBCB
C39BBCA
C40BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C42D3+4
C45BBCB
C46ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C48BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 58W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4dB) 23W

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. Rostrevor 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
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

11:36 PM

ROSTREVOR transmitter - Over the next week Rostrevor relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
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Patrick
7:03 PM

Apparently they will be confirming the dates for the digital switchover in NI some time this month (October 2011).

Quote:

'Digital UK, the body in charge of digital switchover, appointed JPR following a competitive pitch.

Northern Ireland will be the final part of the UK to switch over from analogue, taking place next year.

JPR MD Jane Wells will lead the account, supported by former Belfast Telegraph and BBC Northern Ireland journalist Andrea Clements, an account manager at JPR.

Wells said: The switchover elsewhere in the UK has been extremely successful to date, and were very much looking forward to helping complete the circle with a successful switchover in Northern Ireland.

As part of the arrangement, JPR has also secured the contract to provide media relations support for the Switchover Help Scheme in Northern Ireland.

The campaign will kick off in Northern Ireland this month when the exact date of the switchover in Northern Ireland will be announced.'

End of quotation.
Source: PRWeek (online) 10th October 2011

h_ _p://www.prweek.com/uk/News/MostDiscu ... n-Ireland/

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Patrick
7:08 PM

- JPR appointed to support digital switchover in Northern Ireland is the most discussed PR Week article
Full link to the above article, apologies if you do not allow direct links and please remove if necessary.

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Thursday, 13 October 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

9:46 PM

Patrick: Thanks very much for the link and the post. No problem with links to good sites.

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Friday, 14 October 2011
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Patrick
4:15 AM

Thanks Brian.

I see it has just been announced that analogue will finally be switched off in Northern Ireland on 24 October 2012. I am sure full details will follow shortly but I presume the switchover process will be done in (two) stages in the weeks leading up to that final date?

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Patrick's 8 posts GB flag
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Patrick
8:26 AM

JUst to clarify, BBC2 will be going off 2 weeks before and the rest of the old analogue going off air on the 24th October.

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Monday, 17 October 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:41 AM

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

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Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:38 AM

ROSTREVOR transmitter - 18 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 Rostrevor relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012
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