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Sandy Heath

TV: BBC A: 27 - D3&4: 24 - BBC B: 21 - SDN: 33 - Arq A: 36 - Arq B: 48

Mux 7: 55

BBC Three Counties Radio: 95.5

Heart FM (Four Counties): 96.9

Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A - Cambridgeshire: 11C Herts/Beds/Bucks: 10D

The transmitter is located between Sandy, Bedfordshire and Potton near the B1042. It is owned by Arqiva, formerly NTL Broadcast.

It was built in 1965, originally broadcasting Anglia Television on VHF 405-lines, UHF with 625-line services of BBC2, BBC1, and Anglia Television being added by January 1971. It carried Channel 4 and Channel 5 from
their launch days, Channel 5 at lower power than the other four services. Today it broadcasts digital
television on the DTT platform.

Sandy Heath mainly covers Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and north Hertfordshire
as well as North West Essex, bringing the nearby area Look East and Anglia Tonight. Coverage extends to
parts of Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, Leicestershire, Peterborough, and South Lincolnshire.

It also broadcasts the BBC local radio station BBC Three Counties Radio and the independent radio station

Heart Bedford, formerly Chiltern.

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Anchor 1

Norwich Central

TV: BBC A: 23 - D3&4: 26 - BBC B: 30

Digital Radio: Norfolk: 10B

This is a Freeview Light transmitter fed from the Tacolneston Main station.

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Anchor 2

Gorleston

TV: BBC A: 26 - D3&4: 23 - BBC B: 30

This is a Freeview Light transmitter fed, I presume from the Tacolneston Transmitter.

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Anchor 3

West Runton

TV: BBC A: 31 - D3&4: 37 - BBC B: 29

Radio Norfolk: 95.6

Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Norfolk: 10B

This is a Freeview Light Relay Transmitter.

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Tacolneston

TV: BBC A: 40 - D3&4: 43 - BBC B: 46 - SDN: 42 - Arq A: 45 - Arq B: 39

Local Mux: 32 - Mux 7: 55

Radio 1: 99.3 - Radio 2: 89.7 - Radio 3: 91.9 - Radio 4: 94.1

Classic FM: 101.5

Digital Radio: BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D

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Belmont

TV: BBC A: 22 - D3&4: 25 - BBC B: 28 - SDN: 30 - Arq A: 23 - Arq B: 26 - Mux 7: 55 - Local Mux: 32

BBC Radio: Radio 1: 98.3 - Radio 2: 88.8 - Radio 3: 90.9 - Radio 4: 93.1

BBC Radio Lincolnshire: 94.9 - Classic FM: 100.5 - Lincs FM: 102.2

Digital Radio:BBC National: 12B - Digital One: 11D - Sound Digital: 11A - Lincolnshire: 12A

The Belmont transmitting station is situated one mile west of the village of Donington near
Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire. It is owned and operated by Arqiva.

It has a guyed tubular steel mast, with a lattice upper section. The mast is now 1,154 feet (351.7 m) high
although it was originally higher.

It was built in 1965 and it began transmissions on 20 December of that year.

Between October 2009 and April 2010, the mast was shortened as part of the Digital Switchover works,
most of the top section above the fifth stay level was removed.

The transmitter broadcasts digital television and both analogue and digital radio to Lincolnshire,
eastern Yorkshire, northern parts of Norfolk and some parts of Nottinghamshire.

When it was first operated it transmitted (amongst others) ITV station Anglia Television. Following a re-organisation of ITV coverage in 1972, from 1974 it started transmitting neighbouring station
Yorkshire Television instead, which it continues to do to this day. Due to most of the region being flat,
Belmont has few relay stations although there is a main relay station at Oliver's Mount covering the
Scarborough area.

Belmont's digital transmitting power - 50 kW for SDN (previously Mux A), 100 kW for Arqiva A & B (Mux C, D)
and 150 kW for BBC A, D3&4 and BBC B (Mux 1, 2, B).

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