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Freeview Light on the Derby (Derby, England) transmitter

Google mapBing mapGoogle Earth52.904,-1.512 or 52°54'15"N 1°30'44"WDE23 6EH

This transmitter has no current reported problems

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

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

Other maps:Waltham regionBBC East MidlandsCentral (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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Derby transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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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.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal max
C48 (690.0MHz)131m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		40W
Channel icons
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
 horizontal max
C51- (713.8MHz)131m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		40W
Channel icons
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
 horizontal max
C52 (722.0MHz)131m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		40W
Channel icons
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



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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, 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 Derby transmitter


BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 25km east-northeast
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.

ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 55km south-southwest
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

years1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-18
aerial groupKKKB C/D EB C/D EB C/D E
C30ITVITVITV
C48BBC1BBC1BBC1BBCABBCABBCA
700C51-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
C52BBCBBBCBBBCB

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz 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 200W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 40W

History of Channel 3 in the Waltham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• 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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