Full Freeview on the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves 52,000 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 Lancaster (Lancashire, England) mast?
Lancaster transmitter - Lancaster transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Lancaster (Lancashire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Lancaster 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Lancaster (Lancashire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Lancaster transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 76km south-southeast (155°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 75km south-southeast (155°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Abbeystead | Active deflector | 10 km SE Lancaster | 30 homes School |
How will the Lancaster (Lancashire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C22 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C30 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C31 | 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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 200W |
Local transmitter maps
Lancaster Freeview Lancaster DAB Lancaster AM/FM Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 8 May 2018
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Peter Seddon7:32 PM
StevensOnln1: I have done a further signal check on the other channels 22 24 25 27 & 28 and all are 70 to 80% signal with 100% quality.
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Wednesday, 9 May 2018
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Peter Seddon11:18 AM
StevensOnln1: Problem fixed turned out to be the incoming aerial connection in conjunction with the booster. Booster removed and end connection remade and connected direct to the PVR and TV.
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Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Pat Fawley11:29 AM
Lancaster
We have no digital reception (freeview) -- talked to neighbours and they don't either.
Please let me know what is happening and when we might receive transmission again.
01524-62700 / LA1 1QZ
Many thanks.
Pat
LA1 1QZ
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StevensOnln111:51 AM
Pat Fawley: There is engineering work currently taking place at the Lancaster transmitter. Do not attempt to retune. It is not a good idea to post your phone number online, as no contributors to this unofficial website will call you and you are just inviting unwanted telesales and other nuisance callers.
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Wednesday, 22 January 2020
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Jeff8:59 PM
I live in carnforth. La6 area.
I have lost channel 65 TBN as it says I need to retune.
After retuning I still don't receive the channel.
Please advise
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Chris.SE10:06 PM
Jeff:
TBN have had the channel moved to the PSB3/BBCB HD multiplex. Unless your receiver has an HD / T2 tuner (DVB-T2) then you won't receive it. Do you get any of the other HD channels?
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Wednesday, 12 August 2020
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William Wilding10:28 AM
Hi Freeview,
Will we ever get channel 52 in Lancster
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StevensOnln110:36 AM
William Wilding: Freeview LCN 52 is RTE One (Ireland's closest equivalent to BBC One), which is only broadcast on Freeview in Northern Ireland and is very unlikely to ever be broadcast from any transmitter in England, Wales or Scotland.
If you actually meant a different channel, please let us know the name of the channel you are asking about.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2020
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Chris.SE1:36 PM
William Wilding:
Channel 50 is Sony Movies Classic if that's the one you mean. Over a year ago Sony reorganised the multiplexes that a lot of their channels were broadcast on, no doubt for commercial reasons. This particular one, is one of quite a few which are on Local multiplexes.
The Lancaster transmitter does not have a Local multiplex, these are generally only in areas and centres of large populations - large cities and maybe some towns.
For which channels are on which multiplexes, see Channel listings | Freeview
Considering the idea of Local multiplexes was primarily for a Local channel covering Local News and Events etc (LCN7 in the EPG) plus a small handful of other channels and the fact that most of these local stations have not been at all successful, most having cut local news broadcasts to a matter of hours a day, it's highly unlikely that considering the cost (never mind free UHF channels space), that any more would ever be set up.
So the short answer to your question is No, this is not likely.
You may be able to watch online (depending on your internet connect as well), visit Sony Movies UK |
I believe Sony are changing the channel to Sony Movies Christmas on the 10th September. Similar changes do tend to happen each year for the Xmas period.
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