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The symbol shows the location of the Sunderland (Sunderland, England) transmitter which serves 13,000 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sunderland (Sunderland, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Sunderland 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
C29 (538.0MHz)105mDTG-6W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) North East and Cumbria, 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
C31 (554.0MHz)105mDTG-6W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Tyne Tees), 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 (Tyne Tees),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C37 (602.0MHz)105mDTG-6W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North East and Cumbria, 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?

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the effected channels

The Sunderland (Sunderland, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Sunderland transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 17km west-northwest (303°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
regional news image
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 20km west-northwest (296°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border

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

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1313 Nov 2019
B E TB E TB E TB C/D E TA K T
C29BBCA
C31D3+4
C37BBCB
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C48BBCB
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C51tv_offD3+4
C52tv_offBBCA

tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
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Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.

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

Analogue 1-4 13W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-3.4dB) 6W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Pontop Pike transmitter area

Jan 1959-Feb 2004Tyne Tees 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. Sunderland 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, 1 November 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:52 PM

SUNDERLAND transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 09:01 today to 15:16 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 09:01 today to 15:16 today [BBC] Over the next week Sunderland relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:55 AM

SUNDERLAND transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 09:01 yesterday to 15:16 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 09:01 yesterday to 15:16 yesterday [BBC] Over the next week Sunderland relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Thursday, 3 November 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:27 AM

SUNDERLAND transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 09:01 on 01 Nov to 15:16 on 01 Nov BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 09:01 on 01 Nov to 15:16 on 01 Nov [BBC] Over the next week Sunderland relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]

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Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

12:34 PM

SUNDERLAND transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 11:00 today to 11:10 today BBC TWO Off Air from 11:00 today to 11:10 today [BBC]

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Thursday, 1 December 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:51 AM

SUNDERLAND transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 11:00 yesterday to 11:10 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air from 11:00 yesterday to 11:10 yesterday [BBC]

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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
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Mrs Jean Thompson
8:20 PM

at the moment I use an ordinary aerial facing tunstall relay but on monday my tv said no signal and it is still the same today
are there any works going on at the moment, I understand the change over is on 12 sept

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June Benson
9:01 PM
Sunderland

Like the lady above my analogue TV went off yesterday (monday). Today I have retuned only to find that the picture is really bad and not worth watching. Could you please inform me what is going on as the date for the switchover is 12 Sep and I have searched everywhere for information as to why this is happening now and can't find anything

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jb38
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9:40 PM

June Benson: Just for information purposes, although Sunderland is maybe your local transmitter that will be changing over the Freeview on September 12th, but on a quick check of the area I see that there are quite a few aerials in Grindon Terrace pointing towards Pontop Pike and which is already transmitting a full Freeview service albeit on low power until September 12th.

I mention this as come September 12th when the switchover takes place the Sunderland transmitter will only be what's commonly known as a Freeview "light" PSB only station with a limited number of channels, whereas Pontop Pike is a full service station with considerably more channels, and so you should take this into consideration come the 12th, although your aerial "would" require to be altered to suit Pontop.

By the way if you look up Grindon Terrace from the General Graham street end its the aerials facing to the left across the rooftops that are pointing towards Pontop Pike.

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jb38
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9:46 PM

June Benson: Just a small addition, although changes are taking place on September 12th its basically only as far as the BBC is concerned, as its the 26th before the remainder fall in place, this applying to both Sunderland and Pontop Pike.

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Monday, 2 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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10:33 AM

SUNDERLAND transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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