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.
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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