Rosemarkie entered service with 405-line BBC TV on VHF channel 2, on 16-Aug-1957. In October 1963 the TV service was transferred to a larger aerial, with an increase in ERP. See the 1963 BBC RD report linked at the foot of this page. 405-line BBC 1 closed in January 1985.
UHF TV transmissions commenced with BBC 2 on 11-Jul-1970, serving around 107,000 people. BBC 1 was added in December 1972, ITV from 8-Oct-1973 and Channel 4 from 24-Jun-1983. Channel 5 was transmitted from nearby Mounteagle. Interim DTT was added early 1999. DSO was on 6th and 20th October 2010.
Rosemarkie was also the starting point for the SHF link to Eitshal and Skriaig. See link a foot of this page.
BBC FM radio entered service on 12-Oct-1958. Conversion to stereo was in 1981. Radio's 1 & 4 were added on 1-Jul-1991 and re-engineering to mixed polarisation was completed in March 1992. Radio nan Gaidheal was added in 1994.
INR 3 (Talk Sport) launched on 14th February 1995 and closed in February 2020. |
