Reigate transmitter works 16th-28th March 2011

Three days of outages followed by low power conditions

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 15th March 2011 at 06:06}

Around 70,000 homes in Surrey will be effected by works on the Reigate transmitter over the next few weeks.

First, from the 16th-18th the transmitter will be off the air during the daytime to allow painting of the drum.

Following this, there will be a ten day period where other engineering work will reduce the power level from the transmitter.

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Comments

Friday, 18 March 2011

s1
11:01 AM

from 10 am today 18th my is very week in redhill, surrey and not working at all they sort it soon

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Jp
11:07 AM

@LB
Proper timetable?
Nah..making it up as they go along more like.
Until the workmen get their 35th tea break and Health and Safety assessments are done....I would say 2012 Olympics maybe

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dave
11:10 AM
Gatwick

Someone has to sort this out immediately. Consumers were not informed. What about the elderly who rely on the tv. I've got the day off today and was hoping to watch the Gold Cup. Who can I contact?

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Fi
11:20 AM

Can we please informed what time the is due to come back on? As with other comments,it is appalling that we have not been informed of this.How many people will be out there trying to fix their aerials i wonder!?! Is there likely to be downtime over the weekend?

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Dave Too
11:21 AM

If you have internet you can watch tv on www.tvcatchup , I don't think they will doing much painting on the in this weather.

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kjgw60@tiscali.co.uk
11:27 AM

in Merstham Surrey due to these works. The at the best of times is poor from the now its gone completely.

Can't believe they can completely switch you off like this whilst they paint the tower.

The joys of TV!

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Dave Too
11:34 AM

Yeah, they'd be better increasing the from this , perhaps they should scrape the paint off! :-))

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Dave Too
11:36 AM

Another option if you have a is to turn it round towards and retune your TV.

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Fi
11:38 AM

Seems to be up and running again now!