Castlebar transmitter
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The Castlebar transmitter is a relay station used to broadcast television and radio to County Mayo, Ireland, located at Croaghmoyle. The site is part of the RTÉ Network Limited transmission network.
The transmitter currently provides FM radio on VHF and a number of television stations on UHF. TV3 doesn't broadcast on its allocated frequency from this transmitter (or indeed any relay transmitters).
A separate, close by site at Tawnycullawee is a television deflector station operated by Dropvale Limited, which carries channels from Northern Ireland as well as TV3
In the past Eurosport (Channel 39 615.25 MHz) and Sky News (Channel 42 639.25 MHz) were available from this location however they have since been closed down. The transmitter was originally a VHF television transmitter carrying RTÉ One (Channel D 175.25 MHz) and RTÉ Two (Channel F 191.25 MHz); these ceased transmission on VHF in 1999, after UHF began from the transmitter in 1998.
UTV has moved frequencies (from UHF channel 50 to 42) in 2000 occupies a channel previously used for Sky News
[edit] Channels listed by frequency
- Analogue Radio (FM VHF)
- 89.3 MHz - RTÉ Radio 1 Croaghmoyle
- 91.5 MHz - RTÉ 2fm Croaghmoyle
- 93.7 MHz - Raidió na Gaeltachta
- 98.9 MHz - RTÉ Lyric FM Croaghmoyle
- 101.1 MHz - Today FM Croaghmoyle
- 102.9 MHz - Community Radio Castlebar Tawnycullawee
- Analogue Television (PAL-I UHF)
- UHF 23 (487.25 MHz) - TG4 Croaghmoyle (RTE site)
- UHF 26 (511.25 MHz) - TV3 (Not yet broadcasting)
- UHF 29 (535.25 MHz) - RTÉ One Croaghmoyle (RTE site)
- UHF 33 (567.25 MHz) - RTÉ Two Croaghmoyle (RTE site)
- UHF 39 (615.25 MHz) - TV3 (previously Eurosport)
- UHF 42 (639.25 MHz) - UTV (previously Sky News)
- UHF 47 (679.25 MHz) - BBC One Tawnycullawee (deflector site)
- UHF 53 (727.25 MHz) - BBC Two Tawnycullawee (deflector site)
- UHF 56 (751.25 MHz) - Channel 4 Tawnycullawee (deflector site)
