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The Angus transmitting station is a broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

and telecommunications facility, situated approximately five miles due north of the city of Dundee

Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It includes a guyed steel lattice mast which is 229.5 metres (753 ft) http://tx.mb21.co.uk/info/sitedata/index.asp in height. Mounted at the top are the UHF television antennas, contained within a GRP

Glass-reinforced plastic

Fiberglass , is a fiber reinforced polymer made of a plastic matrix reinforced by fine fibers of glass. It is also known as GFK ....

shroud. These antennas have an average height above Ordnance Datum of 547 metres (1,795 ft).http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/tv_trans/tv_oxford.shtml. It is owned and operated by Arqiva

Arqiva

Arqiva is a telecommunications company which provides infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The present company, with headquarters located at Crawley Court in the village of Crawley, Hampshire, was formed by National Grid Wireless...

History

It was constructed in 1966 by the ITA
Independent Television Authority
The Independent Television Authority was an agency created by the Television Act 1954 to supervise the creation of "Independent Television" , the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom...

, having been chosen as a suitable site for high power colour UHF transmissions.

Coverage area

It covers

Coverage map

Coverage maps are designed to indicate the service areas of radiocommunication transmitting stations. Typically these may be produced for radio or television stations, for mobile telephone networks and for satellite networks. Such maps are alternatively known as propagation maps...

parts of the City of Dundee, eastern Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of 32 council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre...

, southern Angus

Angus

Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

and north and east Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

. Reception is also possible in the coastal areas of East Lothian

East Lothian

East Lothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy Area. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and Midlothian. Its administrative centre is Haddington, although its largest town is Musselburgh....

, as far along as the town of Dunbar

Dunbar

Dunbar is a town in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland, approximately 28 miles east of Edinburgh and 28 miles from the English Border at Berwick-upon-Tweed....

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/mapsys/anatv/angus.asp.

Analogue radio (FM
Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...

VHF)

Frequency	kW	Service
100.1 MHz	2.125 (H) 8.5 (V)	Classic FM Classic FM (UK) Classic FM, one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations, broadcasts classical music in a popular and accessible style.-Overview:...
102.8 MHz	5†	Tay FM Tay FM Tay FM is an Independent Local Radio station commercial local radio station serving Dundee, Perth and the general Tayside area in Scotland. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations...

† Mixed polarisation.

Digital radio (DAB
Digital audio broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....

)

Frequency	Block	kW	Operator
218.640 MHz	11B	3	Score Dundee Score Dundee Score Digital ,as the name suggests, is the name of the DAB multiplex operator for the Dundee & Perth area. It stretches northwards to Pitlochry and southwards to Glenrothes in Fife and as far inland as Crieff and Aberfeldy....
222.064 MHz	11D	10	Digital One Digital One Digital One is a national commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, owned by Arqiva. , the multiplex covers more than 90% of the populationfrom a total of 137 transmitters...
225.648 MHz	12B	10	BBC National DAB

Analogue television

Analogue television was shut down from Angus in August 2010. BBC Two Scotland was closed on 4 August, and the remaining three services on 20 August.

Frequency	UHF	kW	Service
727.25 MHz	53	100	Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
759.25 MHz	57	100	BBC One Scotland
783.25 MHz	60	100	STV
807.25 MHz	63	100	BBC Two Scotland

Digital television

These have been broadcast since 18 August 2010, with the exception of BBC A which has been broadcast since 4 August.

Frequency	UHF	kW	Operator
730.0 MHz	53	20	Digital 3&4 Digital 3&4 Digital 3&4 is a consortium consisting of regional Channel 3 companies and Channel 4 Television Corporation, which operates a multiplex broadcasting from a number of transmitter sites in the UK, carrying television and radio channels from both ITV and Channel 4; however three per-cent of the...
738.0 MHz	54	10	SDN S4C Digital Networks SDN is a company that operates Multiplex A, one of the six groups of channels on digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom...
762.0 MHz	57	20	BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... B
770.0 MHz	58	10	Arqiva Arqiva Arqiva is a telecommunications company which provides infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The present company, with headquarters located at Crawley Court in the village of Crawley, Hampshire, was formed by National Grid Wireless... A
786.0 MHz	60	20	BBC A
794.0 MHz	61	10	Arqiva B

Before switchover

These ceased broadcasting on 18 August 2010, with the exception of Mux 1 which ceased broadcasting on 4 August.

Frequency	UHF	kW	Operator
753.8 MHz	56-	2	Arqiva Arqiva Arqiva is a telecommunications company which provides infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The present company, with headquarters located at Crawley Court in the village of Crawley, Hampshire, was formed by National Grid Wireless... (Mux C)
777.8 MHz	59-	4	SDN S4C Digital Networks SDN is a company that operates Multiplex A, one of the six groups of channels on digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom... (Mux A)
801.8 MHz	62-	4	BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... (Mux B)
825.8 MHz	65-	2	Arqiva (Mux D)
834.2 MHz	66+	4	Digital 3&4 Digital 3&4 Digital 3&4 is a consortium consisting of regional Channel 3 companies and Channel 4 Television Corporation, which operates a multiplex broadcasting from a number of transmitter sites in the UK, carrying television and radio channels from both ITV and Channel 4; however three per-cent of the... (Mux 2)
850.0 MHz	68	4	BBC (Mux 1)

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