Freeview Light on the Derby (Derby, England) transmitter
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The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Derby (Derby, England) transmitter.
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The symbol shows the location of the Derby (Derby, England) transmitter which serves 3,300 homes.
What do the colours on the map mean?
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.List by multiplex|
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See terrain plotWhich Freeview channels does the Derby 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 | Aerial position | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
PSB1 BBCA | horizontal max | C48 (690.0MHz) | 131m | 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 40W |
|  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 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others 200 BBC Red Button, 700 BBC Radio 1, 701 BBC Radio 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 Radio 6 Music, 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra, 709 BBC Asian Network, 710 BBC World Service,
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PSB2 D3+4 | horizontal max | C51- (713.8MHz) | 131m | 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 40W |
|  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),
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PSB3 BBCB | horizontal max | C52 (722.0MHz) | 131m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 40W |
|  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, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
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Are you trying to watch these 27 Freeview channels?

The
Derby (Derby, England) mast is a
public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these
commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, BBC Red Button 2, 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.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Derby transmitter?
How will the Derby (Derby, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| years | | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | | K | K | K | B C/D E | B C/D E | B C/D E | |
| C30 | | ITV | ITV | ITV | | | | |
| C48 | | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| 700 | C51 | | | | | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |
| C52 | | | | | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| 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 17th August and 31st August 2011.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 200W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 40W | |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services 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-Feb 2004 | Central Independent Television |
| Feb 2004-Dec 2014 | ITV plc |
| | 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. Derby 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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DazSunday 17 February 2013 7:36PM
I tryed to set up new HD Box at my brother's in Eyam Derbyshire and the HD channels wasnt registering when loading all the other channels for the 1st time. Can he get HD in his area?J
jb38Sunday 17 February 2013 7:57PM
Hope Valley Daz: In the interests of accuracy your brothers post code is really required, but on a test code of S32 5AA (Hope Valley Post office) the Calver Peak PSB only relay is indicated as being located at just under two miles away and its HD is on mux Ch39.
If though you receive the BBC and ITV without glitching then your problem is inclined to suggest that the box being used is not fitted with a DVB-T2 tuner, this being a necessary requirement for HD reception.
Would you know the model number of the box in question?DERBY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:05 on 29 May to 10:59 on 29 May, HD Digital TV Off Air from 09:22 on 29 May to 09:51 on 29 May. [BBC] Over the next week Derby relay: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, no analogue radio, no digital radio. [DUK] DERBY transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:23 on 06 Jun to 05:25 on 07 Jun, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:23 on 07 Jun to 02:29 on 08 Jun. [BBC] DERBY transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:23 on 07 Jun to 02:29 on 08 Jun, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:23 on 06 Jun to 05:25 on 07 Jun. [BBC]
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