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The symbol shows the location of the Broadbottom (Tameside, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Broadbottom (Tameside, England) mast?

BROADBOTTOM transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 21 Dec 21:05 until 21 Dec 23:56. Off the air due to a fault from 21 Dec 20:18 until 21 Dec 20:25. . BBC


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Which Freeview channels does the Broadbottom 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C45 (666.0MHz)117mDTG-2W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C42 (642.0MHz)117mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C39 (618.0MHz)117mDTG-2W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Broadbottom (Tameside, 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 Broadbottom transmitter?

regional news image
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 19km west-northwest (283°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
regional news image
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 19km west-northwest (283°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.

How will the Broadbottom (Tameside, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1331 Mar 2018-
B E TB E TB E TB E TB E K T
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves BBCB
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C49tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB

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 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 10W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area

May 1956-Jul 1968Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Granada 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. Broadbottom 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.

Comments
Monday, 28 May 2012
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patricia
11:27 AM
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Transmitter engineering: tv shown no signal on and off over last few days with intermittent hd coverage. re tuned several times and seems to be up and running again. had a power cut yesterday from 20.00 for approx 2 hours but i think this was coincidental. interesting.

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5:01 PM

patricia: I would suspect the power cut wasn't a coincidence!

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Saturday, 14 June 2014
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Eric Thomas
11:37 AM

I live in the Broadbottom area, and have a problem with signal quality. It doesn't happen until at least late afternoon, and then sometimes at hourly intervals into the evening. When it does the sound is horrendous, and the picture completely breaks up for about 10 minutes. The signal strength when this occurs is usually 90% min, and the quality fluctuates between 64 - 71%. I have got a top quality aerial, and have moved the freeview box into a position slightly away from the TV that kind of helped. What baffles me is why this only happens at certain times, and why it doesn't occur until late in the day.
I would be grateful for any help or advice you can offer that might solve this frustrating problem.

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BROADBOTTOM transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 22 Nov 00:20. . [BBC]

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BROADBOTTOM transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 22 Nov 00:20 until 22 Nov 05:26. . [BBC]

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