Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station

Kirk o'Shotts

Location	Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire
Mast height	183 metres (600 ft)
Coordinates	55°51′10″N 3°49′34″W / 55.8528°N 3.8261°W / 55.8528; -3.8261Coordinates: 55°51′10″N 3°49′34″W / 55.8528°N 3.8261°W / 55.8528; -3.8261
Grid reference	NS8569563679
Built	1952
BBC region	BBC Scotland (1952-1985)

The Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site at The Hirst which lies just outside the village of Salsburgh which is near the town of Shotts in North Lanarkshire central Scotland. (Kirk o'Shotts means 'Church of Shotts' and takes its name from nearby Kirk O' Shott's Parish Church and Kirk O' Shotts' Primary School both located as you enter the nearby village of Salsburgh.)

The BBC 405-line television service in Scotland started from Kirk o'Shotts on 14 March 1952 using low power reserve transmitters (Marconi). Full service began on 17 August 1952 using the main high power transmitters (Vision EMI Type 5704, Sound STC Type CTS-12). The station provided a service to a potential 4.1 million viewers and operated on Channel 3 (Vision 56.75 MHz, Sound 53.25 MHz) and transmissions were vertically polarised.

It subsequently became the main national FM transmitting station for the area, although that role is now filled by the nearby site at Black Hill.

Three DAB multiplexes are broadcast from the site: BBC (12B), Digital One (12A) and Switch Scotland (11D).^[1]

It has a 183 metres (600 ft) tall guyed mast, built in 1952. The mast was originally 228.6 metres (750 ft) tall.

The station is owned by Arqiva.

Services available

Digital radio

Frequency	Block	kW	Operator
222.064 MHz	11D	1.88	Switch Scotland
223.936 MHz	12A	4.6	Digital One
225.648 MHz	12B	10	BBC National DAB

Analogue television

VHF analogue television was transmitted from Kirk o'Shotts from its launch in 1952 until the nationwide shutdown of VHF signals in 1985.

Frequency	VHF	kW	Service
56.75 MHz	3	100	BBC Scotland

References

↑ "The Transmission Gallery: Kirk o'Shotts Transmitter photographs and information".

External links

Television transmitter and major relay sites in the United Kingdom

England

East	Mendlesham Sandy Heath Sudbury Tacolneston

East Midlands	Belmont Chesterfield Waltham

Greater London	Alexandra Palace Croydon Crystal Palace

North East	Berwick-upon-Tweed Burnhope Chatton Pontop Pike

North West	Caldbeck Sandale Storeton West Kirby Winter Hill

South East	Bluebell Hill Chillerton Down Dover Fremont Point (Channel Islands) Hannington Heathfield Membury Midhurst Oxford Rowridge Whitehawk Hill

South West	Beacon Hill Caradon Hill Huntshaw Cross Mendip North Hessary Tor Redruth Stockland Hill Washford

West Midlands	Lichfield Ridge Hill Sutton Coldfield The Wrekin

Yorkshire and the Humber	Bilsdale Emley Moor Halifax Holme Moss Oliver's Mount Sheffield

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Italics denotes a transmitter no longer used for transmitting television signals

Kirk o'Shotts VHF 405-line Transmitter Group

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