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Arqiva is one of the two main transmitter and broadcast companies in the United Kingdom. Formerly owned by NTL as NTL Broadcast it was sold to a consortium led by Macquarie Bank in 2004. Image File history File links Arqiva. ...
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NTL Incorporated, a U.S.-listed British company, provides cable services (Internet, telephone and television). ...
Macquarie Bank Limited is an Australian merchant bank and financial services group, providing a broad range of products and services to investors, corporations and government. ...
Notable Arqiva transmitting stations
The Angus transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated approximately five miles due north of the city of Dundee, in Tayside, Scotland (grid reference NO394407). ...
The Arfon transmitting station is a facility for FM radio and television transmission at Arfon near Nasareth, Caernarfon, Gwynedd in northwestern Wales. ...
The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the village of Donington on Bain, near Market Rasen and Louth in Lincolnshire, England (grid reference TF217837). ...
Black Hill Transmitter The Black Hill transmitting station is a facility for FM and TV broadcasting on Black Hill (grid reference NS828647), North Lanarkshire, Scotland near the town of Airdrie on the eastern outskirts of the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area. ...
The Caldbeck transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the village of Caldbeck, in Cumbria, England (Grid Reference: NY299425). ...
Caradon Hill transmitter towers Caradon Hill Transmitter is a 228 metre high guyed mast on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. ...
The Chillerton Down transmitter is a broadcasting facility for FM and DAB radio at Chillerton Down on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England (grid reference SZ475835). ...
The Croydon transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located in Upper Norwood, London, England (grid reference TQ332696), in the London Borough of Croydon, owned by Arqiva. ...
The Dover transmitting station is a facility for broadcasting and telecommunications, located near Dover, Kent (grid reference TR274397). ...
The Emley Moor tower Emley Moor (located at ) is an area of moorland near the village of Emley, near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England (national grid reference: SE222128). ...
Heathfield Transmitter is a facility for FM- and television- transmissionat Heathfield, UK. It uses as its antenna mast a 135 metre tall guyed mast. ...
The Lichfield transmitting station is situated close to Tamworth in Staffordshire in the West Midlands between the A5 and A51. ...
The Moel-y-Parc transmitting station is situated on Moel-y-Parc, a hill in north-east Wales at the northern end of the Clwydian range, close to the town of Caerwys and several kilometres north-east of Denbigh. ...
The Presely transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the town of Narberth, in Pembrokeshire, Wales (grid reference SN172306). ...
The Ridge Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located 20 miles SW of Worcester and is a 100 kW (analogue TV power) main transmitter. ...
The Strabane transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the town of Strabane, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (Grid Reference: H393947). ...
Click to view the hi-res version and see the supporting cables The Winter Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site situated on Winter Hill between Chorley and Bolton, in Lancashire, England. ...
History
Independent Television Authority (ITA) The organisation's roots date back to the earliest dates of commercial television (ITV) in the UK. The Television Act 1954 gave birth to the Independent Television Authority (ITA). The ITA appointed and regulated a number regional programme contractors, and built and operated a network of transmitters. ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of...
The Television Act 1954 was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV. Royal Assent was given to the Act on 30 July 1954. ...
The Independent Television Authority (ITA) was a body created by the Television Act 1954 to supervise the creation of Independent Television (ITV), the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom. ...
Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) The Sound Broadcasting Act 1972 created legal commercial radio in the UK for the first time. It was modelled on ITV, in that programmes were made by local contractors while the regulator, renamed the Independent Broadcasting Authority, owned the transmitters. The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 - cable and satellite television were the responsibility of the Cable Authority) and radio broadcasts. ...
ITC, RA and Transcom The Broadcasting Act 1990 split the IBA into three bodies. The Independent Television Commission (ITC) regulated commercial TV and the Radio Authority (RA) regulated commercial radio. The IBA's engineering division, which operated the transmitters as well as doing research and development, became a company called National Transcommunications Limited (also known as Transcom). The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament, often regarded by both its supporters and its critics as a quintessential example of Thatcherism. ...
The ITC has been superseded as the British commercial television regulator by Ofcom (the Office of Communications). ...
The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ...
CableTel and NTL Transcom was acquired by International CableTel Inc., which subsequently built its brand around the NTL name. It ran up huge debts during the dot-com boom which crippled the company for many years. In 2004, NTL sold its 'broadcast unit' to Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group. Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ...
Macquarie In January 2005, Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group renamed its new subsidiary Arqiva.
Inmedia Arqiva acquired Inmedia Communications from the Carlyle Group in July 2005 to form the new Satellite Media Solutions business unit. Inmedia was owned by Kingston Communications and known as Kingston inmedia before being bought by the Carlyle Group in 2004. Kingston Communications PLC is a telecommunications provider based in Kingston upon Hull serving primarily the East Yorkshire area. ...
The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than USD$40 billion of equity capital under management. ...
See also National Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle UK) is a company which provides telecommunications infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the UK. Its main customers are broadcasters and mobile phone network operators, and its main asset is a network of over 1,000 radio masts and towers. ...
Digital One is a national commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, owned by GCap Media and transmitted on frequency block 11D. It broadcasts the following channels receivable on any digital-equipped radio: Classic FM - national commercial classical music station, also on FM Core - semi-automated pop music station...
GCap Media plc is a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. ...
Digital Audio Broadcasting or DAB is a technology for broadcasting audio programming in digital form that was designed in the late 1980s but which is now being introduced in many countries. ...
External links - Arqiva
- Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group
- NTL
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