Freeview Light on the Skipton Town (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Skipton Town (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter which serves 8,400 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 Skipton Town (North Yorkshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)




The Skipton Town (North Yorkshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 Freeview channels does the Skipton Town 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.
Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
PSB1 BBCA | V max | C24 (498.0MHz) | 191m | DTG- | 3W |
1 BBC One (SD) Yorkshire, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C27 (522.0MHz) | 191m | DTG- | 3W |
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)), 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, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C21 (474.0MHz) | 191m | DTG- | 3W |
56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others |
Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?
The Skipton Town (North Yorkshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 Skipton Town transmitter?

BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 36km east-southeast (119°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.

ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 33km east-southeast (120°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Skipton Town (North Yorkshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 31 Dec 2019- | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 13W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2.6W |
Local transmitter maps
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Friday, 14 February 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:34 AM
4:34 AM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Feb 11:50 until 12 Feb 14:36. Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Feb 02:05 until 12 Feb 12:50. Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Feb 00:01 until 12 Feb 02:05. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:28 PM
1:28 PM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 17 Feb 21:50 until 17 Feb 21:52. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Feb 19:24 until 17 Feb 19:26. Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Feb 11:50 until 12 Feb 14:36. Off the air due to essential eng [BBC]
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Friday, 21 February 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 AM
10:28 AM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 17 Feb 21:50 until 17 Feb 21:52. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Feb 19:24 until 17 Feb 19:26. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 18 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:34 AM
4:34 AM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 17 Jun 00:02 until 17 Jun 02:15. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 5 July 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Reduced quality due to a fault from 4 Jul 08:52 until 4 Jul 08:56. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 27 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
10:43 PM
10:43 PM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Nov 19:01. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 28 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
6:09 AM
6:09 AM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 28 Nov 02:21 until 28 Nov 03:43. Off the air due to a fault from 27 Nov 19:01. . [BBC]
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Monday, 29 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:13 PM
3:13 PM
SKIPTON TOWN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 28 Nov 02:21 until 28 Nov 03:43. Off the air due to a fault from 27 Nov 19:01 until 27 Nov 20:51. . [BBC]
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