Freeview HD channels Rollout Schedule and Dates

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Freeview HD is not going live in all parts of thew UK at the same time. This page shows the proposed rollout schedule. It shows when Frrview HD will go live near you. It won't be until the end of 2012 that all five of the proposed Freeview HD channels become available across the whole of the UK.

The first HD Freeview channels went live in December 2009 in the Granada TV region and in some parts of London. The rest of the UK getting Freeview HD gradually at some point between 2010 and 2012. HD Freeview is being turned on in parallel with the Digital Switchover rollout.

At present, not all of the Freeview HD release dates have been announced, but based on the information we have so far we are able to give you a rough idea, as we get more information this will be updated:

Region / Area Transmitter HD Date
Granada region & Manchester Winter Hill 2 December 2009
London area Crystal Palace 2 December 2009
Newcastle and Tyneside Pontop Pike February 2010
Glasgow, central Scotland Black Hill February 2010
Leeds and Bradford Emley Moor March 2010
Birmingham Lichfield March 2010
Liverpool, central Lancashire, Cheshire, North Staffordshire Winter Hill Relays March 2010
Cardiff and Newport Wenvoe March 2010
Swansea Kilvey Hill March 2010
West and central Wales Blaenplwyf March 2010
Carmarthenshire Carmel April 2010
Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset Stockland Hill April 2010
Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire Mendip April 2010
Shetland Bressay May 2010
Orkney Keelylang Hill May 2010
Caithness, North Sutherland Rumster Forest mid-June 2010
Rest of Wales Long Mountain, Moel y Parc, Presely Mid-June 2010
Anglesey Llanddona July 2010
Lewis, Wester Ross, North West Sutherland, Western Isles Eitshal Skriaig July 2010
Angus, Dundee, Perth, and parts of Fife Angus August 2010
Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly Beacon Hill, Caradon Hill, Huntshaw Cross, Redruth August 2010
Aberdeenshire Durris September 2010
Morayshire, Strathspey, and parts of Easter Ross Knockmore October 2010
South West Scotland Caldbeck Scotland October 2010
Inverness and the Great Glen Rosemarkie October 2010
South West Highlands and Islands Torosay October 2010
Cumbria and the Lake District Caldbeck October 2010
Isle of Man Douglas October 2010
Scottish Borders Selkirk November 2010
Channel Islands Fremont Point End 2010
Bedfordshire, Berkshire (parts), Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, East Midlands, East Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Humberside, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire (parts), Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands (remainder), and West Yorkshire (remainder) Various 2011
Berkshire (remainder), County Durham, Greater London (remainder), Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Teesside, Tyneside Various 2012
Northern Ireland Various 2012