Grimsby (North East Lincolnshire, England) digital TV transmitter

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53.563,-0.069 or 53°33'46"N 0°4'8"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Grimsby transmitter. The Grimsby transmitter covers 2,400 homes.

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Belmont region

BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Yorkshire (Belmont micro region)

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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.

Grimsby transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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. The rating shown takes in account the output power level and the various Freeview transmission modes and do not indicate an ongoing fault.

Mux	Effective power level, aerial position	Rating	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical	Maximum	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2
	1 BBC One East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others 200 BBC Red Button, 700 BBC Radio 1, 701 BBC 1Xtra, 702 BBC Radio 2, 703 BBC Radio 3, 704 BBC Radio 4, 705 BBC Radio 5 Live, 706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, 707 BBC 6 Music, 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra, 709 BBC Asian Network, 710 BBC World Service, • as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C45 (666.0MHz) from 22m datum.
PSB2 D3+4	vertical	Maximum	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2
	3 ITV (Yorkshire (Belmont micro region)), 4 Channel 4 North ads, 5 Channel 5 The North ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 North ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), • as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C42 (642.0MHz) from 22m datum.
PSB3 BBCB	vertical	Maximum	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2
	101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space, • as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C39 (618.0MHz) from 22m datum.

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Grimsby (North East Lincolnshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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.

Regional news from the Grimsby transmitter

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years		1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group		B E	B E	B E	B E K	B E K	B E K
	C39		BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C42		ITV	ITV	ITV	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C45		BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
700	C49		C4	C4	C4

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 3rd August and 17th August 2011.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	4W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-3dB) 2W

History of Channel 3 in the Belmont transmitter area

Oct 1959-Jul 1974 Anglia Television Jul 1974-Feb 2004 Yorkshire Television Feb 2004-Dec 2014 ITV plc

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Grimsby 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.