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Freeview Light on the Staffin (Highland, Scotland) transmitter

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

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57.620,-6.197 or 57°37'10"N 6°11'48"W

IV51 9HY

The symbol shows the location of the Staffin (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Staffin (Highland, Scotland) 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 Staffin 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	C45 (666.0MHz)	107m	DTG-	9W
	1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C39 (618.0MHz)	107m	DTG-	9W
	3 STV (SD) (STV North (Aberdeen micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C42 (642.0MHz)	107m	DTG-	9W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 45 Freeview channels?

The Staffin (Highland, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, Great! Movies Action, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, HorrorXtra, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 70s, That's TV , Together TV, 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 Staffin transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 228km south-southeast (151°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 253km east-southeast (104°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.

How will the Staffin (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	20 Sep 2017
	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T
C39	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		D3+4
C42	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C45	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C49_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4

_{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 7 Jul 10 and 21 Jul 10.

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

Analogue 1-4	44W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 8.8W

Local transmitter maps

Staffin Freeview Eitshal (Lewis) TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Aberdeen micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Eitshal (Lewis) transmitter area

Sep 1961-Jun 1997	Grampian Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014	STV 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. Staffin 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?

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Saturday, 27 September 2014

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- : BBC TV Off Air from 14:03 yesterday to 18:04 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:03 yesterday to 18:04 yesterday. [BBC]

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Monday, 29 September 2014

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- : BBC TV Off Air from 14:03 on 27 Sep to 18:04 on 27 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:03 on 27 Sep to 18:04 on 27 Sep. [BBC]

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Friday, 12 December 2014

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4:31 AM

- : BBC TV Wrong from 23:30 on 10 Dec to 00:00 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 01:42 yesterday to 02:12 yesterday, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 23:30 on 10 Dec to 00:00 yesterday, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 01:42 y [BBC]

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Saturday, 13 December 2014

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4:31 AM

- : BBC TV Wrong from 23:30 on 10 Dec to 00:00 on 11 Dec, BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 01:42 on 11 Dec to 02:12 on 11 Dec, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 23:30 on 10 Dec to 00:00 on 11 Dec, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 01:42 o [BBC]

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