Freeview Light on the Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter.
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The symbol shows the location of the Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter which serves 4,600 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 Alexandra Palace transmitter broadcast?
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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 | horizontal max | C49 (698.0MHz) | 186m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 70W |
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1 BBC One London, 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 | C58 (770.0MHz) | 186m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 70W |
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3 ITV (London), 4 Channel 4 London ads, 5 Channel 5 London ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 London ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (London),
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PSB3
BBCB | horizontal max | C54 (738.0MHz) | 186m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 70W |
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101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV London), 104 Channel 4 HD London 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
Alexandra Palace (Greater London, 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 Alexandra Palace transmitter?
How will the Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| years | | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | |
| 700 | C49 | | | | | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| C54 | | C4 | C4 | C4 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| C58 | | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |
| 800 | C61 | | ITV | ITV | ITV | | | | |
| C64 | | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | | | | |
| 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 April and 18th April 2012.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 70W | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-0.3dB) 65W | |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Crystal Palace transmitter area
| Sep 1955-Jul 1968 | Associated-Rediffusion† |
| Sep 1955-Jul 1968 | Associated TeleVision◊ |
| Jul 1968-Dec 1992 | Thames† |
| Jul 1968-Feb 2004 | London Weekend Television♦ |
| Jan 1993-Feb 2004 | Carlton† |
| Feb 2004-Dec 2014 | ITV plc† |
| 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. Alexandra Palace 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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fatima redwanWednesday 18 April 2012 2:16AM
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John RobinsonWednesday 18 April 2012 10:33AM
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
And no, it's not a con to get people to pay for satellite. Quite the opposite, part of the point of switchover is to get more channels to more people. J
John RobinsonWednesday 18 April 2012 10:35AM
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CatWednesday 18 April 2012 11:23AM
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Stephen WardSaturday 21 April 2012 8:33PM
London
Since swichover the number of channels varies from day to day or more frequenly. Much of the time there are only some of the more obscure channels with no ITV or BBC or Channel 4. This morning there was BBC but no ITV, then for a few hours all channels, then briefly nothing at all, and now BBC and some others again but no ITV.
Are they still tweaking the transmitter to adjust the signal? I dont want to waste money on a TV aerial engineer if that's still going on. ALEXANDRA PALACE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 05:59 on 15 May to 08:15 on 15 May, HD Digital TV Off Air from 05:59 on 15 May to 08:15 on 15 May. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 05:59 on 15 May to 08:15 on 15 May. [BBC] updates
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