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Freeview Light on the Todmorden (Calderdale, England) transmitter

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

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The symbol shows the location of the Todmorden (Calderdale, England) 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 Todmorden (Calderdale, 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 Todmorden 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+ (618.2MHz)	271m	DTG-	100W
	1 BBC One (SD) Yorkshire, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C45 (666.0MHz)	271m	DTG-	100W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C42 (642.0MHz)	271m	DTG-	100W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Yorkshire, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three 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 44 Freeview channels?

The Todmorden (Calderdale, England) 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! christmas, GREAT! movies extra, GREAT! movies, 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 Christmas, 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 Todmorden transmitter?

BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 36km east-northeast (75°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.

ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 34km east-northeast (73°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region

How will the Todmorden (Calderdale, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	31 Dec 2019-
	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T	B E K T
C39	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	+BBCA	BBCA
C42	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C45	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C49_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.

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

Analogue 1-4	500W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 100W

Local transmitter maps

Todmorden Freeview Todmorden DAB Todmorden AM/FM Emley Moor TV region BBC Yorkshire Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area

May 1956-Jul 1968	Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Oct 2002	Yorkshire Television
Oct 2002-Dec 2014	ITV

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. Todmorden 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?

Comments

Thursday, 26 July 2018

Transmitter engineering

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9:08 PM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:49 today to 18:13 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:49 today to 18:13 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 14:49 today to 18:10 today, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 14:49 today to 18:10 today, Radio 3 FM Off Air from 14 [BBC]

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StevensOnln1

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11:12 PM

David Mansell: There is no need to post personal insults. I was mainly responding to the post below yours but included you as a courtesy since you were also reporting the same problem.

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Friday, 27 July 2018

Transmitter engineering

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6:08 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:49 yesterday to 18:13 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:49 yesterday to 18:13 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 14:49 yesterday to 18:10 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 14:49 yesterday to 18:10 yeste [BBC]

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MikeP

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3:26 PM

David Mansell:

If you wish to inform the operator of some problem or comment please contact Arqiva at https://www.arqiva.com/co…us/.

As stated many times, we contributors to this independent website have no connection with any broadcaster nor transmitter operator.

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Saturday, 28 July 2018

Transmitter engineering

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6:08 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:49 on 26 Jul to 18:13 on 26 Jul, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:49 on 26 Jul to 18:13 on 26 Jul. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 14:49 on 26 Jul to 18:10 on 26 Jul, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 14:49 on 26 Jul to 18:10 on 26 [BBC]

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Friday, 3 August 2018

Transmitter engineering

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12:08 PM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air; related from 09:31 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:31 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 09:31 today, Radio 3 FM Off Air from 09:31 today, Radio 4 FM Off Air from 09:31 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering

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3:08 PM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air; related from 09:31 today to 12:33 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:31 today to 12:33 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 09:31 today to 12:24 today, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 09:31 today, Radio 3 FM Off [BBC]

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Saturday, 4 August 2018

Transmitter engineering

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6:08 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air; related from 09:31 yesterday to 12:33 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:31 yesterday to 12:33 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 09:31 yesterday to 12:24 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 09:3 [BBC]

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Sunday, 5 August 2018

Transmitter engineering

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6:08 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air; related from 09:31 on 03 Aug to 12:33 on 03 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:31 on 03 Aug to 12:33 on 03 Aug. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 09:31 on 03 Aug to 12:24 on 03 Aug, Radio 2 FM Off Air from 09:3 [BBC]

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