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Freeview Light on the Strabane (Northern Ireland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Strabane (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 14,000 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 Strabane (Northern Ireland) 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 Strabane 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)581mDTG-400W
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)581mDTG-400W
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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C35+ (586.2MHz)581mDTG-400W
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

NIMM
 V -13dB
C40 (626.0MHz)581mDTG-20W
Channel icons
from 4th September 2019: 53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Strabane (Northern Ireland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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 Strabane transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,050km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,050km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

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

1963-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
VHFB E TB E TB E TB E K TK T
C8ITVwaves
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCB
C40NIMMNIMM
C42C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C49tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
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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 2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W
NIMM(-20dB) 20W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady 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.

Comments
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
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StevensOnln1
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9:24 AM

Chris.SE: Perhaps you missed the Irish flag underneath Bart's post, which I believe signifies that it was posted from an IP address in Ireland, hence my answer. Digital UK shows that Strabane will change frequencies on 4th September, but doesn't tell us about any Saorview transmitters in Ireland with overlapping coverage.

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Chris.SE
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11:01 PM

StevensOnln1:

For goodness sake, this is just perpetuating a trivial point. Perhaps he lives just over the border and gets his reception from Strabane!
You and I (as a result of your first post) have made it clear that if Bart is talking about Saorview reception, he'll have to look elsewhere, perhaps Saorview | Coverage
Checker

As he hasn't given a postcode, neither of us can say if there will or will not be any "Reception Change" entries on the coverage checkers for his location.
As far as I can ascertain, there are no changes to Saorview transmitters in 2019, so if the answers we've provided don't answer his question, he'll need to be more specific.

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Friday, 6 September 2019
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nigel j shields
2:03 PM

Transmitter engineering:
Hi
Since I have had to return my TV on 4th September all my BBC channels have breaking up and sometimes no reception at all. On 1 TV which is a Panasonic since return it has failed to pick up any BBC channel.
I have followed all help web links but I still have the same issues of poor reception and no reception on all BBC channels since forced retune.
Any idea when this issue will be resolved. Post code BT828BW house no/ 47
Kind Regards
Nigel

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StevensOnln1
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3:40 PM

nigel j shields: If you are having problems following the recent frequency changes you should contact the Freeview Advice Line (see link below) who can arrange for a replacement wideband aerial to be fitted free of charge if you don't have satellite or cable.

Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview

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Tuesday, 10 September 2019
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paul Sproule
9:59 PM

Hi just wanting to know is there an upgrade planned for this mast in Strabane?
We are not receiving the same amount of Freeview channels as Coleraine and other times throughout the north of Ireland

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StevensOnln1
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10:07 PM

paul Sproule: There are no known plans for any additional services to be broadcast from Strabane. If you provide a full postcode we can check if you might be able to receive more channels from another transmitter.

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