Brougher Mountain transmitting station is a major transmitting station in Northern Ireland. It is located between County Tyrone and

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, on top of a high hill called Brougher Mountain. It has four other transmitter sites in its digital television transmitter group, at Ederny, Derrygonnelly,

Belcoo Belcoo ( ()Flanagan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 172. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. is a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, from Enniskillen. It is on the County Fermanagh/County Cavan border besid ...

, and Lisbellaw. Brougher Mountain came into service on 24 February 1964, transmitting the BBC Television Service on VHF

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. The ITV service provided by

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launched from the Strabane transmitter located 40 miles north of Brougher Mountain on 18 February 1963 and its coverage extended down to the area covered by Brougher Mountain. It became the main UHF transmitter for the area in July 1978, when BBC One,

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and UTV started transmitting in colour on the 625 line UHF service.

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started transmitting from the transmitter in December 1983. Due to its close proximity to the Republic of Ireland, since the transmitter went on air in 1964, many living in counties

Cavan Cavan ( ; ) is the county town of County Cavan in Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road that links Dublin (to the south) with Enniskillen, Bally ...

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, Leitrim,

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and

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could receive the UK channels via spill-over signals from Brougher Mountain, as well as the Strabane transmitter. The site was the location of an Provisional IRA bombing on the 9th February 1971, which left 5

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workers dead when their vehicle was destroyed by a landmine. The workers were travelling up the mountain to repair the transmitter when the landmine, which was detonated by a tripwire, detonated. It has been suggested that the booby trap was in fact set to target members of the

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, who regularly patrolled in the border area.

Services transmitted by frequency

Analogue radio

Digital radio

Digital television

Including Sept 2019 Frequency changes. *NImux contains

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and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and transmits from this and two other sites in Northern Ireland.

Before switchover

Analogue television (before 24 October 2012)

References

External links

Picture of Brougher Mountain from the air
Transmitter sites in Northern Ireland Buildings and structures in County Fermanagh 1964 establishments in Northern Ireland {{UK-bcast-stub