Freeview Light on the Whaley Bridge (Derbyshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Whaley Bridge (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 700 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 Whaley Bridge (Derbyshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)




The Whaley Bridge (Derbyshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports HD, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, 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 Freeview channels does the Whaley Bridge 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) | 183m | DTG-3 | 2W |
1 BBC One (SD) North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 183m | DTG-3 | 2W |
3 ITV (SD) (Granada), 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, 25 ITV4, 29 E4 +1, 34 ITV +1 (Granada), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 183m | DTG-6 | 2W |
72 Shopping Quarter , 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, plus 1 others |
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 50 Freeview channels?
The Whaley Bridge (Derbyshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports HD, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, 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 Whaley Bridge transmitter?

BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 26km northwest (308°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.

ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 26km northwest (308°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Whaley Bridge (Derbyshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | |||||
C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
C42 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
C52tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 - 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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 2W | |
Analogue 1-4 | (-3dB) 1W |
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Thursday, 4 June 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:13 on 01 Jun to 21:16 on 01 Jun, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:42 on 01 Jun to 22:08 on 01 Jun, HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:13 on 01 Jun to 21:16 on 01 Jun, HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:42 on 01 Jun to 22:08 on [BBC]
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Monday, 7 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:06 today to 02:10 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:06 today to 02:10 today. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:06 yesterday to 02:10 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:06 yesterday to 02:10 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:06 on 07 Sep to 02:10 on 07 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 01:06 on 07 Sep to 02:10 on 07 Sep. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
10:32 AM
10:32 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:32 PM
7:32 PM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 today to 17:55 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 today to 17:55 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 yesterday to 17:55 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 yesterday to 17:55 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 17 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 on 15 Sep to 17:55 on 15 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 on 15 Sep to 17:55 on 15 Sep. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
10:33 AM
10:33 AM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 on 15 Sep to 17:55 on 15 Sep, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 08:34 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 on 15 Sep to 17:55 on 15 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 08:34 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:32 PM
7:32 PM
WHALEY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 on 15 Sep to 17:55 on 15 Sep, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 08:34 today to 17:48 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:30 on 15 Sep to 17:55 on 15 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 08:34 today to 17:48 today. [BBC]
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