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    The Pontop Pike transmitting station is a facility for telecommunications and broadcasting situated on a 312-metre (1,024-ft) high hill of the same name...
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    North. With the advent of UHF with its 625-lines, the adjacent Pontop Pike transmitting station carried these services to the Newcastle and County Durham area...
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    added UHF TV to the existing VHF TV stations at Pontop Pike and Emley Moor, it was quickly established that a new station would be required to cover County...
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    Peterborough able to receive these broadcasts. This was the same month that Pontop Pike also began transmissions. Tacolneston went into full service on 9 September...
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    reduce unwanted coverage to the south. It was built by BICC, alongside Pontop Pike (also 500ft) and North Hessary Tor in Devon (a taller mast). The service...
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  • (16 km) between the BBC studios in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Pontop Pike transmitting station. However, these cables had other impairments besides Gaussian...
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    Ireland. It superseded the temporary station at Glencairn, which was one of two transmitters (the other being Pontop Pike) to be rushed into operation on 1...
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    The Peterborough transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility at Morborne Hill, near Peterborough, England (grid reference TL127913)...
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    to introduce 405 line television into Devon, alongside Rowridge and Pontop Pike (both 500ft). It now carries a small UHF TV transmitter which serves...
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    ITV Tyne Tees (category Television channels and stations established in 1959)
    signature tune "Three Rivers Fantasy". The BBC transmitted their programmes from the Pontop Pike transmitting station in County Durham. The ITA built a new transmitter...
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  • Tyne Tees Television starts broadcasting in colour from the Pontop Pike transmitting station. 3 August – The UK's final 405-lines television transmitter...
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  • 2017/early 2018, new transmitters started at Pontop Pike and Ely, which widened the listening area of stations broadcasting via the Sound Digital ensemble...
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  • Pontop Pike transmitting station. It continues to radiate 405-lines transmissions to the northern part of its region from the Burnhope transmitting station...
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  • Edinburgh. The stations were at: Manchester Telephone House Windy Hill, Lancashire Tinshill, Yorkshire Arncliffe Wood, Yorkshire Pontop Pike, County Durham...
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    transmitters in England to complete this operation, the others being Pontop Pike and Chatton in the same region. List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest...
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  • and digital terrestrial from the Bilsdale, Caldbeck, Chatton and the Pontop Pike transmitters. The latest edition of Look North is also available to watch...
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  • Green YPLC Pimlico YPPK Portpatrick Coastal Radio Station YPRE Preseli YPRH Proctor Heights YPTP Pontop Pike YPUR Purdown YQNR Quernmore YRID Riddings Hill...
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  • (Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Northern County Durham), broadcast from the Pontop Pike and Chatton transmitters. South: (North Yorkshire, Tees Valley and Southern...
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    relay transmitter which is transmitted via the Pontop Pike transmitter, it is situated north east of the town. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Cumbria,...
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  • Service. 1 May – The BBC brings into service television transmitters at Pontop Pike (County Durham) and Glencairn (Belfast) to improve coverage prior to...
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  • the name of the north of the region programme for those served by the Pontop Pike and Chatton transmitters. 1994 28 February – Wales at Six is replaced...
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