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The symbol shows the location of the Ambergate (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,800 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 Ambergate (Derbyshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Ambergate 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
C25 (506.0MHz)185mDTG-37W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 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
C28 (530.0MHz)185mDTG-37W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)185mDTG-37W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands 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
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the effected channels

The Ambergate (Derbyshire, 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 Ambergate transmitter?

regional news image
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 26km east-southeast (117°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 71km south-southwest (205°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)

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

1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Feb 2018-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesD3+4D3+4
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 17 Aug 11 and 31 Aug 11.

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

Analogue 1-4, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 37W

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

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent 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. Ambergate 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
Friday, 11 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
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10:28 AM

AMBERGATE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Sep 16:42 until 10 Sep 16:45. Off the air due to a fault from 10 Sep 16:10 until 10 Sep 16:12. . [BBC]

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Monday, 21 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
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10:28 PM

AMBERGATE transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 21 Sep 03:20 until 21 Sep 09:27. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 24 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
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10:28 AM

AMBERGATE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 23 Sep 00:10 until 23 Sep 05:30. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 21 Sep 03:20 until 21 Sep 09:27. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 30 September 2020
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4:33 AM

AMBERGATE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 23 Sep 00:10 until 23 Sep 05:30. . [BBC]

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Friday, 6 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
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6:27 PM

AMBERGATE transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 6 Nov 13:30 until 6 Nov 14:07. . [BBC]

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Friday, 15 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
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11:29 AM

Ambergate transmitter - Ambergate transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/10/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 18 October 2021
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8:36 AM

Ambergate transmitter - Ambergate transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/10/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Friday, 22 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
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11:43 AM

AMBERGATE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Oct 10:04 until 20 Oct 10:14. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 25 August 2022
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Scott Baker
8:56 AM

Are they working on the Ambergate transmitter because I have no ITV channels.

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Chris.SE
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10:43 AM

Scott Baker:

It's not currently listed for Planned Engineering and I can't find any listing of a fault BUT as it's a Relay of Waltham and Waltham is listed, work there could be having an effect.

Also, it might be Current weather conditions -
Tropospheric Ducting - causing interference from more distant transmitters in Europe or the UK. This can be very variable and is usually short term at any instant but conditions have been persisting for several days, different parts of the UK are being affected at different time. Not all multiplexes will be affected at any instant. Both Freeview and the BBC have issued warnings about short term interference to reception.

IF you were correctly tuned, Do NOT retune, whatever the cause, as this usually just clears your correct tuning if you have no signals or badly pixellated pictures. You'll then have to retune again when signals are normal and as you won't know when that is you may have to try several times.

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