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53.174,-1.590 or 53°10'27"N 1°35'24"W

DE4 2HN

This transmitter has no current reported problems

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

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The symbol shows the location of the Darley Dale (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 3,300 homes.

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Waltham region

BBC East Midlands

Central (East 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.

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Darley Dale 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	C44 (658.0MHz)	301m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	3W
	1 BBC One East Midlands, 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	C41 (634.0MHz)	301m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	3W
	3 ITV (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 Midlands ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C47 (682.0MHz)	301m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	3W
	101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Darley Dale (Derbyshire, 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 Darley Dale transmitter

BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 39km southeast
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.

ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 81km south-southwest
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	W	W	W	B E K	B E K	B E K
	C30	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1
600	C34	ITV	ITV	ITV
	C41				D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C44				BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C47				BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C48	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2
700	C52	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 17th August and 31st August 2011.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	16W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 3.2W

History of Channel 3 in the Waltham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Dec 2014	Central Independent 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. Darley Dale 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
Thursday 28 February 2013 7:31PM

DARLEY DALE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:51 yesterday to 02:35 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 03:23 today to 03:57 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 20:23 yesterday to 00:10 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:10 today to 15:58 tod [BBC]

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