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54.285,-2.605 or 54°17'7"N 2°36'19"W

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This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sedbergh (Lancashire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Sedbergh (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves 1,400 homes.

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Caldbeck region

BBC North West

Border

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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.

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Sedbergh 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.

Mux	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C46 (674.0MHz)	261m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	100W
	1 BBC One North West, 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
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C40 (626.0MHz)	261m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	100W
	3 ITV (Border), 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),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C43 (650.0MHz)	261m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	100W
	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,

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Sedbergh (Lancashire, 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 Sedbergh transmitter

BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.7%
from Salford M50 2QH, 93km south-southeast
to BBC North West region - 90 masts.

ITV Lookaround 0.3m homes 1.1%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 69km north-northwest
to ITV Border region - 60 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	21/11/12-	2013-18
	aerial group	B E	B E	B E	B E	B E K	B E K
	C40	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1		D3+4	D3+4
	C43	ITV	ITV	ITV	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C46	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
700	C50	C4	C4	C4	D3+4

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 24th June and 22nd July 2009.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

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

History of Channel 3 in the Caldbeck transmitter area

Sep 1961-Dec 2014

Border Television

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. Sedbergh 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.

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Transmitter engineering
Sunday 8 July 2012 2:31PM

SEDBERGH transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 13:21 today [BBC]

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