Tay Bridge is located on the south side of the Tay Estuary. It's a medium power relay of Angus which also transmitted Channel 5 to the Dundee area.
Originally an IBA landlord site, Tay Bridge entered service with 3 UHF TV channels on the 28-Nov-1974 to serve 33,000 people. Channel 4 was added in September 1983 with Channel 5 available from the 30-Mar-1997 launch. Tay bridge also transmitted local TV named Channel 6 on ch49 from 31-May-2001 until July 2002. DSO was on the 4th and 18th August 2010.
Together with the other principle Angus relay at Perth, Tay Bridge had ITU frequency clearance to transmit interim DTT (OnDigital), but this was never implemented. The cleared UHF channels were 40, 43, 46, 48, 50 & 52 at 50W ERP.
ILR Dundee (Radio Tay) launched on 17-Oct-1980 on 95.8 MHz. The frequency was then changed to 102.8 MHz on 27-May-1987 as part of the European reallocation project. On 10-Feb-1994 transmissions were moved to Angus and the power increased from 1.3 kW to 4.0 kW. However, when Ofcom relaxed their rules allowing stations to re-use one of their existing frequencies within the service area, a low power relay was opened at Tay Bridge on the same frequency as Perth, 96.4 MHz at 50 W.
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