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Freeview Light on the Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 4,400 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 Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Eyemouth 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
C21+ (474.2MHz)238mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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)238mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)238mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 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

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 Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, 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 Eyemouth transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 138km west (273°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 118km south-southwest (207°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the Eyemouth (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20082008-1331 Mar 2017-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21+BBCABBCA
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C24D3+4D3+4
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C27BBCBBBCB
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.

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

Analogue 1-4 2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk transmitter area

Sep 1961-Feb 2004Border 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. Eyemouth 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
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
MikeP
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5:37 PM

Gill Young:

Please check that your TV is tuned to the correct transmitter signals.

Please would you give a full post code so that we can check which transmitter(s) are suitable and whether any have reception problems at your exact location.



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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Monday, 2 April 2018
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R Gray
4:50 PM

Eyemouth transmitter (Freeview Lite)
Can you update your list of stations for the Eyemouth transmitter please?
It now includes ITV3 on channel no 10

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R Gray's 7 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
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Brian Stanley
11:12 PM

Transmitter engineering: is there a problem with HD transmissions from Eyemouth. Many outages over the past few months. Sony tv channel 101 BBC Scotland has been replaced by BBC 1 HD. Channel 804 that normally has BBC 1HD is displaying ZDF

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Wednesday, 27 June 2018
MikeP
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4:48 PM

Brian Stanley:

Put your post code into the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker That will tell you if there are any problems and what channels are being used. If you also check at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…ngs, it will tell you what channels are available at your location.

There are no reported problems with the transmittter so it is worth checking all the connections between your aerial and TV.



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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
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R Gray
12:10 PM

MikeP: Despite there being no reported problems there have been many outages in the past few days.
Could this be because of high atmospheric pressure causing poor signal strength?
N.B Outages only on BBC channels, ITV unaffected

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MikeP
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4:51 PM

R Gray:

As stated, there are no engineering works reported on the Eyemouth transmitter.

You may well be suffering from tropospheric lift conditions which can affect one, some or all of the transmissions, depending on the frequencies being used and how they are being affected by the natural phenomenon. DO NOT RETUNE. Patience is a virtue in these circumstances as nothing can be done about the effects that have been known for over 50 years.



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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Monday, 29 November 2021
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Prentice
12:31 PM
Eyemouth

No free view tv TD14 5NW

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Chris.SE
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1:20 PM

Prentice :

The BBC are reporting a fault.
Whilst the BBC have reported fault details on their individual transmitter page, they have not (yet?) added it to a page which is an engineering list of Freeview faults which is where the updates to this site come from.

From 4:45:19pm to 4:46:49pm on 26th Nov 2021 BBC A / BBCB HD Off the air due to a fault
From 6:59:19pm on 26th Nov 2021 BBC A / BBCB HD Off the air due to a fault

This is most likely due to one of the many power outages caused by storm Arwen.

Statement from BBC Engineering -

Interruptions to television and radio services due to Storm Arwen

Severe weather is causing problems with electricity supplies to several transmitters across the UK. Regional electricity suppliers are working hard to restore services. You can check the status of your local transmitter using our transmitter checker tool.

While you're waiting you could try BBC iPlayer or BBC Sounds to carry on watching or listening to your favourite programmes. They are both available on Smart televisions and many other internet connected devices.

Keep up with the latest weather in your area.

You can probably find out more about power outages in your area from Welcome to SP Energy Networks - SP Energy Networks but I note their website is being updated as I post.

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Chris.SE's 4,394 posts GB flag
Friday, 27 October 2023
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Alan Clerk
4:05 PM

The Eyemouth TV transmitter is once again down today 27/10/2023. Will someone please tell whoever runs this transmitter to get their act together. It is bad enough that it does not even transmit half of the Freeview channels. This is 2023 not 1923.

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Steve Donaldson
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5:39 PM

Alan Clerk: BBC Reception [bbc.co.uk/reception] carries reports on the two BBC multiplexes, PSB1 (BBC A) and PSB3 (BBC B). At the present time, for Eyemouth it has these four entries:

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Timestamp: From 4:00pm to 4:13pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC A
Status: Off the air due to a fault
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Timestamp: From 10:15am to 4:00pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC A
Status: Off the air due to essential engineering
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Timestamp: From 4:00pm to 4:13pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC B HD
Status: Off the air due to a fault
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Timestamp: From 10:15am to 4:00pm on 27th Oct 2023
Multiplex: BBC B HD
Status: Off the air due to essential engineering
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According to this, it was off air for 13 minutes from exactly 4 o'clock this afternoon. It does say that this was "due to a fault", but judging by the fact that there are also reports of "essential engineering" it suggests there are engineers on site and we might speculate that they needed to turn it off for the short period.

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