Editing Belmont transmitting station (section)

===Analogue television===

====20 December 1965 – 19 November 1966====
First transmissions from the site: ITV's 405-line television service was fed by off-air reception of Mendlesham at Great Massingham in Norfolk, with an onward microwave link to Belmont via an intermediate point at Winceby in Lincolnshire.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency
!{{no2}}VHF
!{{no2}}kW
!{{no2}}Service
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=7}}
|7V
|20
|[[Anglia Television|Anglia]]
|}

====19 November 1966 – 24 May 1971====
The BBC's services came online on both VHF and UHF. BBC1 was initially fed by means of an off-air rebroadcast of [[Holme Moss transmitting station|Holme Moss]] but this was plagued by co-channel interference from the continent. BBC2 was an off-air rebroadcast from [[Emley Moor transmitting station|Emley Moor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1967-06.pdf |title=U.H.F. TRANSMITTING AERIAL FOR THE BELMONT TELEVISION STATION |date=1967 |website=downloads.bbc.co.uk |access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref> On 19 March 1969, the Emley Moor mast collapsed, taking Belmont's BBC2 transmissions off-air for several days.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.thebigtower.com/live/Belmont/131P24000403071.htm|title=TheBigTower Belmont Dates|work=thebigtower.com}}</ref>

Despite the programme sources on VHF and UHF being (for many years) off-air rebroadcasts of other transmitters in the vicinity, Belmont was always regarded by the BBC as being a "main station" both on VHF and UHF. The IBA initially regarded it as a relay of [[Mendlesham transmitting station|Mendlesham]] (and numbered it 14.2 in their numbering of VHF stations) but from 1974 it became a "main station" for Yorkshire Television (renumbered as 20.0 in the IBA's numbering of VHF stations)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wolfbane.com/uk405.htm|title=Former U.K. Television Stations|work=wolfbane.com}}</ref> after changes in the minor franchise areas.

It was always number 120.0 in the BBC/IBA numbering scheme for UHF stations<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wolfbane.com/articles/uktv2.htm|title=Former U.K. Television Stations (UHF Analogue System)|work=wolfbane.com}}</ref>).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency
!{{no2}}VHF
!{{no2}}UHF
!{{no2}}kW
!{{no2}}Service
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=7}}
|7V
|—
|20
|Anglia
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=13}}
|13V
|—
|20
|[[BBC1|BBC1 North]]
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=28}}
|—
|28
|500
|[[BBC2|BBC2 North]]
|}

====24 May 1971 – 30 July 1974====
ITV's UHF service began.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://txlib.mb21.co.uk/main.php?g2_itemId=2209&g2_imageViewsIndex=3|title=ITV75p146w|work=mb21.co.uk|access-date=7 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531170842/http://txlib.mb21.co.uk/main.php?g2_itemId=2209&g2_imageViewsIndex=3|archive-date=31 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency
!{{no2}}VHF
!{{no2}}UHF
!{{no2}}kW
!{{no2}}Service
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=7}}
|7V
|—
|20
|Anglia
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=13}}
|13V
|—
|20
|BBC1 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=22}}
|—
|22
|500
|BBC1 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=25}}
|—
|25
|500
|Anglia
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=28}}
|—
|28
|500
|BBC2 North
|}

====30 July 1974 – 2 November 1982====
After changes to the regional structure of ITV in 1972, Belmont stopped being a relay of [[Mendlesham transmitting station|Mendlesham]] and became a main station for Yorkshire TV.<ref name="timeline" />   It was fed by a Post Office (later BT) microwave link from Leeds, allowing Yorkshire TV to supply Belmont with a separate 7-minute segment of their regional news magazine programme "Calendar", a Belmont titled version of Anglia's weather forecast, as well as having the ability to sell advertising separately in the Belmont and Emley Moor areas.     The microwave link from Leeds to Belmont apparently ran via Emley Moor, where the IBA could insert test transmissions, such as Test Card "F"

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency
!{{no2}}VHF
!{{no2}}UHF
!{{no2}}kW
!{{no2}}Service
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=7}}
|7V
|—
|20
|[[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]
|-
|{{UK System A|ch=13}}
|13V
|—
|20
|BBC1 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=22}}
|—
|22
|500
|BBC1 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=25}}
|—
|25
|500
|Yorkshire
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=28}}
|—
|28
|500
|BBC2 North
|}

====2 November 1982 – 30 March 1997====
Both the BBC and ITV 405-line VHF TV services from Belmont were discontinued early<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/EngInf_4.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=7 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106011307/http://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/EngInf_4.pdf |archive-date=6 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in mid-1982, and when Channel 4 began formal transmissions in November that year it was radiated on UHF from the site:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency
!{{no2}}UHF
!{{no2}}kW
!{{no2}}Service
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=22}}
|22
|500
|BBC1 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=25}}
|25
|500
|Yorkshire
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=28}}
|28
|500
|BBC2 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=32}}
|32
|500
|[[Channel 4]]
|}

====30 March 1997 – 15 November 1998====
Belmont started transmitting the UK's final terrestrial analogue UHF TV service: Channel 5. This was done well out-of-band and at reduced power compared with the main group.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency
!{{no2}}UHF
!{{no2}}kW
!{{no2}}Service
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=22}}
|22
|500
|BBC1 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=25}}
|25
|500
|Yorkshire
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=28}}
|28
|500
|BBC2 North
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=32}}
|32
|500
|Channel 4
|-
|{{UK System I|ch=56}}
|56
|50
|[[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]]
|}