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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. Copy of the original phone of Graham Bell at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ...
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In telecommunications, transmission is the act of transmitting electrical messages (and the associated phenomena of radiant energy that passes through media). ...
Masts of the Rugby VLF transmitter in England Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials in the UK) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. ...
History
Crown Castle UK was formed from the transmitter network of the BBC, which was privatised in 1997. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion...
It was a subsidiary of Crown Castle, but since 31 August 2004 it has been owned by National Grid plc. On 11 October 2005 the company was renamed National Grid Wireless. It is planned to be sold and separated from its parent company National Grid, for between £1.3bn and £1.7bn. Private equity firms have shown interest. Crown Castle International Corp. ...
August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ...
National Grid plc is a United Kingdom based utilities company which also operates in other countries, principally in the United States. ...
October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Notable National Grid Wireless transmitting stations The transmission mast above the BBC wing of Alexandra Palace, photographed in 2001. ...
Bressay ( From Old Norse meaning Broad Sound Island) is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of around 400 people. ...
The Brookmans Park transmitter is a facility for medium wave broadcasting north of London (national grid reference: TL259050). ...
The Burghead transmitting station is a broadcasting facility near Burghead (grid reference NJ125685) in Scotland for long- and medium-wave radio transmission that started service on 12th October 1936. ...
The Crystal Palace transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site in the Crystal Palace area of the London Borough of Bromley, England (grid reference TQ339712). ...
Droitwich Transmitting Station, Wychbold The Droitwich transmitting station is a large broadcasting facility for longwave and mediumwave transmissions, established in 1934 close to the village of Wychbold, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, England (grid reference SO929663). ...
The Haverfordwest transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located 9 miles to the north east of the town of Haverfordwest, in Pembrokeshire, Wales (grid reference SN028261). ...
Holme Moss is a moor in the south Pennines of England, on the border between Derbyshire and the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire (Grid reference SE095041). ...
The Kirk oShotts transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site between Glasgow and Edinburgh in central Scotland. ...
The Llanddona transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated at Llanddona, near Beaumaris, on the isle of Anglesey, Wales (grid reference SH583810). ...
The Mendip UHF Television Mast The Mendip UHF Television Mast The Mendip transmitting station (grid reference ST564488) is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated on the summit of Pen Hill, part of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, at 1002 feet (305 metres) above sea level. ...
Moorside Edge is one of the most powerful mediumwave radio transmitters in Britain at 200 kW erp. ...
The North Hessary Tor is an hill 517 metres high just above Dartmoor Prison, in Princetown, Devon, England (grid reference SX578742). ...
The Oxford transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated on land 129. ...
Morbone hill site from west The Peterborough transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility at Morborne Hill, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, (grid reference TL127913). ...
Pontop Pike mast, left, with dish aerial array to the right Pontop Pike Television Transmitter, grid reference NZ148526, is a British transmitter situated between Stanley and Consett, County Durham, near the village of Dipton, providing UHF television transmissions to Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Cleveland, most of Northumberland and parts...
The Redruth transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility in West Cornwall (grid reference 690395) situated in the Fourlanes area. ...
Rowridge Transmitter is a facility for FM- and television- transmission at Rowridge, Isle of Wight, England. ...
The Sutton Coldfield transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located just north of Sutton Coldfield, in Birmingham, England (grid reference SK113003). ...
The Tacolneston transmitting station is a facility for both analogue & digital VHF/FM radio & UHF television transmission near Tacolneston, 11 miles South-West of Norwich, Norfolk, England. ...
The Tapton Hill transmitting station (grid reference SK324870) is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility which serves Sheffield in Yorkshire and is located on a hill to the west of the city. ...
The Waltham transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility at Waltham-on-the-Wolds, 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK. It comprises a 315 metre high (1033 ft) guyed steel tubular mast. ...
Wenvoe Transmitter The transmitter seen in the distance from Barry The Wenvoe transmitting station is a facility for broadcasting and telecommunications situated at Culverhouse Cross, Wenvoe in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in the UK. It comprises a 225 metre (738 ft) guyed mast with antennas attached at various heights...
The four masts at the Westerglen transmitting station The Westerglen transmitting station is a facility for longwave and mediumwave broadcasting established in 1932 at Westerglen Farm, 3 km south west of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland (grid reference NS868773). ...
The Wrotham Transmitting Station is located on the North Downs, close to the village of Wrotham in Kent, England and just north of the M20 motorway. ...
See also Arqiva Logo Arqiva is one of the two main transmitter and broadcast companies in the United Kingdom. ...
Freeviews retro logo Freeview is a brand name, owned by DTV Services Ltd. ...
VT Communications is a part of VT Group plc. ...
The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world. ...
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References - Pawley, Edward (1972). BBC Engineering 1922-1972. London, BBC. ISBN 0-563-12127-0
- Shacklady, Norman and Ellen, Martin (2003). On Air: A History of BBC Transmission. Wavechange Books. ISBN 0-9544077-1-7 (paperback) ISBN 0-9544077-0-9 (hardback).
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