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The symbol shows the location of the Great Yarmouth (Norfolk, England) transmitter. 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 Great Yarmouth (Norfolk, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Great Yarmouth 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
C47 (682.0MHz)52mDTG-400W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) East, 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
 V max
C41 (634.0MHz)52mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Anglia east), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)52mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South 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 Great Yarmouth (Norfolk, 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 Great Yarmouth transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 29km west (273°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
regional news image
ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 29km west (274°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)

How will the Great Yarmouth (Norfolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-1331 Mar 2018-
A B C/D E K T VHFA B C/D E K T VHFA B C/D E K T VHFB E K TB E K T
C41D3+4D3+4
C44BBCBBBCB
C47BBCABBCA

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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 11.

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

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 400W

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

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia 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. Great Yarmouth 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, 4 February 2013
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Martyn Bell
10:17 AM
Norwich

I live in Sprowstonwould it be possible for me to get a signal from Great Yarmouth. The signal from Tacolneston is blocked by trees.I have clear view to Great Yarmouth.

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KMJ,Derby
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10:55 AM

Martyn Bell: The Digital UK postcode checker makes no prediction whatsoever for reception from Great Yarmouth at your location. Note that the frequencies are co-channel with Sudbury, which could be a factor with any possible reception from either transmitter being blocked by signals from the other. The only realistic alternative for the PSB channels only is Belmont, which could be subject to interference from the continent at times. Trying different locations and various heights for your Tacolneston aerial might offer an improvement to your current situation. However, providing you have no trees in the way, satellite reception could prove to be the only reliable signal source at your location.

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Saturday, 9 May 2015
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Mrs G Roberts
3:09 PM
Great Yarmouth

Hi For the last two nights early evening 7 pm onwards we have had trouble with our small tv and also large tv with getting the freeview channels. Sometimes on the small tv ITV channels only but when we try later in the evening 10 pm onwards we can retune both tvs and the small tv getting over 200 channels and the large to over 100! Then the next evening Friday all gone and have to reset again, we wondered if you have been working on the mast or something else has been happening! We have a roof aerial with a booster in the loft.
We also have virgin cable set up for our big set so obviously this is not affected. Your comments would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Monday, 14 December 2015
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Claire Blamey
12:23 PM

Hello - I have been through the above information and also contacted the helpline who checked the transmitter signal etc. I have a communal aerial on a council property. My signal (I use the ordinary Freeview only) went on Saturday morning. Initally I had no channels at all, then I got the BBC ones (including 3,4, Parliament,CBBC etc), and then I also got some other but very pixelated (ITV, C4, Film4 etc). I can get none of the C5 ones, or things like Drama, Horror, CBS etc.

I have reported this to the local council for their investigation - in the meantime a friend of mine who lives in Great Yarmouth which is about 3 miles away had a letter saying that his Freeview signal might be affected by 4G. Do you have any information about this please?

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MikeP
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2:14 PM

Claire Blamey:

As you are using a communal aerial, you did the right thing by contacting the responsible authority. Have you checked with your neighbours using the same aerial system whether they have the same problems? If they are then that would suggest an aerial problem. If they are not them you ought to check the signal cables in your flat first, best done by replacing then one at a time. If all is still the same then you may have a TV fault.


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Friday, 31 July 2020
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Chris.SE
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6:02 AM

In case anyone comes reading here, for the current date, the transmitter isn't listed for Planned Engineering but there is some variable intermittent "tropospheric ducting" around at present - https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec….jpg affecting different areas at different times & not all channels are necessarily affected at the same time or at all.

The transmitter did have a fault within the last 5 days listed by the BBC
From 3:32pm to 4:10pm on 27th Jul 2020, BBC B HD, Off the air due to a fault and they are also listing that weather conditions may be currently affecting reception, on the transmitter checker page for Great Yarmouth.

Sometimes the BBC put up general reception warnings on this page Latest engineering works and warnings | Help receiving TV and radio

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Dave
10:18 AM

Hi, Anyone having trouble with there signal in Great Yarmouth ?

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Chris.SE
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10:18 PM

Dave:

Did you read the post immediately before yours? Which I put there especially for you and anyone else with problems in your area having seen StevensOnln1's response to you previously!

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Thursday, 17 September 2020
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GARY LOVERIDGE
8:31 AM

I live in Palmer Road Gorleston, why do I keep losing my tv channels on freeview tv.
I am getting fed losing all the ITV, CHANNEL 4 AND 5 channels, even lost the BBC channels as
well the other night. Not only me, but the old people rely on their tv.
Please get it sorted surely with the modern technology we can enjoy tv
without losing the connection. One way of sorting it I will refuse to pay
my TV licence.

Please come back to me on my mobile phone 07902 548797

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Chris.SE
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12:38 PM

GARY LOVERIDGE:

It's extremely unwise to post your mobile number or address on a public forum as it may lead to crank calls or scams, a full postcode was all that was needed. No-one will respond to your mobile (this is an independent help site) as they won't wish to disclose their mobile number!

There is unfortunately a lot of "tropospheric ducting" around at present (see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | Help receiving TV and radio for a simplistic explanation). In the old black and white days we used to refer to "continental interference". Interference can come from Europe or UK transmitters and it doesn't always affect the same multiplexes or all of them at the same time and it can come and go.

You are not the only ones to be affected, it's affecting different parts of the country at varying times, but your area even has had a BBC report of reception being affected by "weather conditions". It's also likely to be continuing off and on for several days, although the predictions (like weather forecasts) can change.

Refusing to pay your TV Licence will have no effect on weather conditions or climate change!

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