Freeview Light 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. 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 Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) 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 Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) 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 Alexandra Palace 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 | H max | C31 (554.0MHz) | 186m | DTG- | 70W |
 1 BBC One (SD) London, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | H max | C32 (562.0MHz) | 186m | DTG- | 70W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (London), 4 Channel 4 (SD) London ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 London ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (London), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | H max | C37 (602.0MHz) | 186m | DTG- | 70W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD London, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV London), 104 Channel 4 HD London ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) 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 Alexandra Palace transmitter?
ITV London News 4.9m homes 18.4%
from London WC1X 8XZ, 8km south (170°)
to ITV London region - 55 masts.
How will the Alexandra Palace (Greater London, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 24 Jul 2019 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | A K T | |||||
| C31 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C32 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 4 Apr 12 and 18 Apr 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 70W | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-0.3dB) 65W |
Local transmitter maps
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Sunday, 18 November 2018
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StevensOnln111:14 AM
Paul: Bear in mind that Alexandra Palace will give you far fewer channels and also broadcasts at much lower power (it was only brought back in to service as a relay to fill gaps in Crystal Palace's coverage). Also, which transmitter is your aerial pointed at?
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MikeP
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11:22 AM
Paul:
Further to that said by others, to check which transmitter your TV is tuned to go to the manual tuning page and not the channel number for several of the programmes. Freeview transmitters broadcast several programme on common channels known as a multiplex, so some will be thae same as others but some different. Once you have listed some of the different channels found go to the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker and put iin your post code and house number. Then scroll down the list and check which transmitter matches the channels you have found on the TV. DO NOT RETUNE.
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Tuesday, 16 April 2019
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David8:28 PM
Will Alexandra palace still be transmitting freeview lite after June 30 2020?
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StevensOnln110:17 PM
David: There are no plans for Alexandra Palace or any other transmitters to close. According to Digital UK, Alexandra Place will change frequencies to UHF channels 31/32/37 this summer (exact date not yet announced).
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019
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David belmar2:38 AM
Is the Alexandra palace transmitter changeing frequency's today?
David Belmar
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Chris.SE4:58 AM
David belmar:
Yes, the BBCA multiplex will be on UHF Channel 31, the D3&4 mux on C32, the BBCB mux (HD) on C37. You may need a change of aerial to receive them satisfactorily, it was aerial group C/D and is now group A.
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Thursday, 14 January 2021
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cairns9:46 PM
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N22 7XQ From Decemb er 2o020 shows,"No sign al" sometimes for hours,sometimes for minutes.Local sets show pixallation or same problem all attemptyds at retuning g failed
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Friday, 15 January 2021
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Chris.SE1:59 AM
cairns:
As you have posted on the Alexandra Palace transmitter page, there would be an assumption that normally you might be tuned to it. That said there are no reported problems that I can find for Alexandra Palace.
However, that said, depending exactly where you are within your postcode, higher street numbers are showing not only a slightly better prediction for Alexandra Palace but significantly better predicted reception for Crystal Palace. From your locale, both transmitters are easily within the beamwidth of your aerial.
If you normally receive the full list of available channels, see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview which also tells you which channels are on which multiplex (group of channels), then you will be picking up Crystal Palace
So you may be tuned to Crystal Palace which is currently listed for Planned Engineering, and was also listed before and just after Christmas with "Possible weak signal", this might account for your problems. Alexandra Palace is a relay of Crystal Palace so might have been affected at some point by the engineering work.
If you retune when you have weak or no signal, often it just clears the correct tuning, you can end up incorrectly tuned to other transmitters with weaker signals etc.
Again, depending on your precise location, predictions show several other transmitters might be received in the "wrong" (weather) conditions. So what does this all mean. You'll need to retune BUT do it manually in the manner I'll explain.
It'll be a good idea to start by checking that your aerial is still pointing in the correct direction and appears undamaged and similarly your downlead. The aerial should be pointing at a bearing of between 167 degrees for Crystal Palace and 173 degrees for Alexandra palace, ie between about 13 degrees and 7 degrees E of due South. If need be, also check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in your TV's tuning section.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes. Also make sure you don't have any HDMI leads near unscreened/poorly screened flyleads/aerial leads as that can cause interference.
Ok, retune as follows. First unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune which should clear all existing (and possibly incorrect) tuning.
You now need to try a manual tune (look for Manual Tuning in the TV tuning section) on the following UHF channels listed in the following multiplex order -
BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6, COM7 (HD), Local.
For Crystal Palace - C23, C26, C30, C25, C22, C28, C55, C35
OR for Alexandra Palace - C31, C32, C37 (PSBs only here).
It will depend on your aerial installation which you can get, and if your receiver doesn't have a T2/HD tuner, ignore PSB3 and COM7. You might find that you'll be better tuning to Alexandra Palace for the PSB multiplexes and Crystal Palace for the remainder if Crystal Palace signals appear unreliable. BUT too strong a signal from Alexandra Palace may cause Crystal Palace signals to pixellate, so you might have to try to find a good balance. Sorry if this all sounds complicated.
If you can get PSB3 but not COM7 it may be you have an old Group A aerial. It may not be worth the expense of replacing as COM7 is a temporary multiplex and will close in due course at the latest end of June 2022. If the aerial needs replacing for other reasons then a Group T/Wideband is needed to get all multiplexes BUT your location might mean you'd be better with a Group A aerial to get the other COM multiplexes reliably. An aerial installer with good knowledge of your area would know. Also see what your neighbours get.
The above should enable you to resolve the problem, but bear in mind Crystal Palace is still listed for Planned Engineering at present. If you still have problems, post back with more details about your aerial installation, any splitters etc. and which multiplexes you have problems with.
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Monday, 9 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
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Alexandra Palace transmitter - Alexandra Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/12/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 16 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM
Alexandra Palace transmitter - Alexandra Palace transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 16/12/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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