Hannington transmitting station

Hannington
Transmission Mast, Cottington Hill
Hannington transmitting station is located in Hampshire
Hannington transmitting station
Hannington transmitting station (Hampshire)
Mast height151.9 metres (498 ft)
Coordinates51°18′29″N 1°14′41″W / 51.3080°N 1.2447°W / 51.3080; -1.2447
Built1970
BBC regionBBC South
ITV regionITV Meridian (Thames Valley)
Local TV serviceThat's Thames Valley

Hannington transmitting station is a television and radio transmitting station located on Cottington Hill near the village of Hannington, Hampshire. The transmitter is actually in the parish of Kingsclere. The station provides broadcast services to Berkshire, north Hampshire and parts of Surrey and Wiltshire, and includes a 131.4-metre (431 ft) guyed steel lattice mast. This includes cities and towns such as Basingstoke, Reading, Winchester, Andover, Newbury, Amesbury and Camberley. Surmounting the mast is a GRP aerial cylinder, which contains the UHF television transmitting antennas, which brings the overall height of the mast to 151.9 metres (498 ft).

Hannington's digital broadcasts were severely attenuated to the east before the digital switchover (DSO) so as not to cause co-channel interference with Guildford transmitter. Those restrictions were removed soon after DSO in 2012.


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