Freeview Light on the Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmitter which serves 7,300 homes. 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Freeview channels does the Glasgow West Central 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 | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C21 (474.0MHz) | 93m | DTG- | 6W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C24 (498.0MHz) | 93m | DTG- | 6W |
 3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C27 (522.0MHz) | 93m | DTG- | 6W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Glasgow West Central transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 3km south (176°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 3km south (171°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
How will the Glasgow West Central (Glasgow City, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C24 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C27 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C59tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C68 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 32W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 6.4W |
Local transmitter maps
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Sunday, 21 December 2014
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stacey8:32 PM
I currently have no signal on any TV in my home. I use an amp which is green. I have talk tralk TV on one aswell. G53
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MikeB8:55 PM
stacey: Just becuase your amp is green, doesn't mean its working...
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Friday, 10 April 2015
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Nino4:39 PM
Hello, i live in paisley and I cant seem to get the HD channels on my TV using the inbuilt tuner or on my usb TV tunner, but all other channels work perfectly well. Wondering what could be the problem
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Dave Lindsay
6:23 PM
6:23 PM
Nino: The most common answer to this question is that the TV is a HD one but doesn't have a "Freeview HD" (DVB-T2) tuner in-built. Knowledge of make and model numbers will allow this to be answered.
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Friday, 1 May 2015
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Grant12:56 PM
Glasgow
Hey
I tried to get Freeview when I first moved in last year. We live on a ground floor flat at G13 1JZ and sadly the building doesn't have a roof antenna. I bought a random aeriel from amazon - (http://www.amazon.co.uk/August-Amplified-Digital-Antenna-Booster-Black/dp/B006I2WRSC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430480590&sr=8-1&keywords=tv+aerial) and got absolutely nothing. I was using it at the windows with an extension cable.
So I gave up but am looking to try again. I didn't realize how close I was to this transmitter and wonder if this was the problem. I'm getting another aeriel first to see if that was the problem but wonder if there's anything else I can do. As I'm so close it doesn't make sense that I would be getting totally nothing through (unless I'm in some very weird specific hotspot).
Thanks!
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MikeP9:54 PM
Trowbridge
Grant:
For any contributor to this site to offer any meaningful assistance we would need to know your location. You can best do that by providing a Post Code (or that of a nearby shop or Post Office). Then it would be possible to work out exactly where you are in relation to the transmitter you mention and any surrounding hills or tall/solid buildings - even houses can block TV signals!
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 2 May 2015
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jb3812:03 AM
Grant: With regards to the aerial being placed next to the window, does the window referred to face towards the Clevedon Road railway bridge (@ 81 degrees) where the transmitter is located?
The point that has to be appreciated being, that the Kelvindale transmitter only rated at 2 watts output with its transmission being vertically polarised, and even although its located at only 0.6 miles away from you it cannot be taken as a foregone conclusion that you will receive a workable signal from it under your particular circumstances.
You should try a test by going into the tuning menu on your TV or box, selecting "manual" tune" followed by entering C52 (Kelvindales BBC) into the box but "not" followed by pressing search or scan!, because on most devices if any signal is being received the level / quality of will appear on the indicator bars no matter how low the signal might be.
If nothing is being indicated? leave this menu on the screen and move the aerial around to see if there are any traces of a signal, as this procedure causes the tuner to act like a form of signal meter devoid of threshold cut off levels.
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jb387:24 PM
Grant : Small correction to that said regarding the location of your local transmitter, it is of course Dalsholm Road railway bridge (next to the recycling centre) and not Clevedon Road.
The other point I ommited to mention being to try the test twice, one with the gain control fully advanced, and the other with it set at minimum.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015
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Jim Main8:58 AM
The STV+1 service from Glasgow West Central carries the Glasgow sub-region of STV, not the Edinburgh one. Where the confusion may arise is that the STV Edinburgh news is transmitted on the plus one service so that Edinburgh regional viewers who are pointing towards Blackhill may get their own news programme on the plus one service.
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Thursday, 1 September 2016
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em1:19 PM
I live in Glasgow's west end near the city centre and noticed some deterioration in signal to all channels some time last week. A lot of channels had periodically jerky or frozen images while the sound continued fine.
I tried the freeview reset procedure and now have viewer channels through my freeview box (still bad pictures) and the freeview tuner in my TV no longer picks up any channels.
Should I get someone out to look at the roof aerial or is there some explanation related to the transmission system?
I know work has been going on over the last week, but there doesn't seem to be any faults reported here.
Appreciate any advice
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