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The symbol shows the location of the Stow (The Scottish Borders, 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 Stow (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Stow 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
C26 (514.0MHz)301mDTG-2W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)301mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C30 (546.0MHz)301mDTG-2W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Stow (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) 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 Stow transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 90km west-northwest (284°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 90km south (182°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the Stow (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20082008-1314 Aug 2019
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C30BBCB
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.

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

Analogue 1-4 5W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4dB) 2W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk transmitter area

Sep 1961-Feb 2004Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Stow 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
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Transmitter engineering
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10:30 AM

STOW transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 18:52 on 03 Apr to 20:15 on 03 Apr HD Digital TV Off Air from 18:52 on 03 Apr HD Digital TV Off Air from 18:52 on 03 Apr to 20:15 on 03 Apr [BBC]

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Wednesday, 13 February 2013
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7:32 PM

Transmitter engineering: 7:30pm stow area- getting picture and sound cutting out or going pixelated every few seconds on both TV's. Are all probems sorted with the Stow transmiter?

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Monday, 22 September 2014
Transmitter engineering
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10:33 AM

STOW transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 29 February 2016
Transmitter engineering
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10:32 AM

STOW transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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10:47 AM

Stow transmitter - Stow transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/09/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Stow transmitter - Stow transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/09/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Stow transmitter - Stow transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Stow transmitter - Stow transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Stow transmitter - Stow transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/10/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Stow transmitter - Stow transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 26/02/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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