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The symbol shows the location of the Austwick (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 homes.
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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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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 | C45 (666.0MHz) | 237m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 6W |
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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 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,
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PSB2
D3+4 | vertical max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 237m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 6W |
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3 ITV (Granada), 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 (Granada),
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PSB3
BBCB | vertical max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 237m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 6W |
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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,
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The
Austwick (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
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Regional news from the Austwick transmitter
How the transmission frequencies change over time
| years | | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 10/4/13- | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | | B E | B E | B E | B E | B E K | B E K | |
| C39 | | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | | D3+4 | D3+4 | |
| C42 | | C4 | C4 | C4 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| C45 | | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| 700 | C49 | | ITV | ITV | ITV | 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 WItalics for
analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 4th November and 2nd December 2009.
Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels
| Analogue 1-4 | 31W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-6.9dB) 6.3W | |
History of Channel 3 in the Winter Hill transmitter area
| May 1956-Jul 1968 | Granada Television† |
| May 1956-Jul 1968 | Associated British Corporation◊ |
| Jul 1968-Dec 2014 | Granada Television |
| | Feb 1983-Dec 1992 | TV-am• |
| Jan 1993-Sep 2010 | GMTV• |
| Sep 2010-Dec 2014 | ITV Daybreak• |
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• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Austwick 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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