Bala Transmitting Station

The Bala transmitting station is a facility for television transmission sited about 6 km east of the town of Bala in Gwynedd, north Wales. It consists of a self-supporting 45 m lattice steel mast standing on high ground about 310 m above sea level. It is owned and operated by Arqiva. Currently the site provides digital TV to the area. HistoryThe station was built by the ITA in 1967 to provide a 405-line ITV Band III (VHF) TV service for the area, and was officially classed as a relay of Preseli. In December 1974 the site became a low power UHF analogue colour television relay of Moel y Parc; at that time carrying BBC One, BBC Two and ITV. S4C was added in 1982. The 405-line TV system was finally discontinued in the UK in 1985, but Bala's VHF transmitters were decommissioned a year early: in 1984. Digital switchover at Bala happened between 28 October 2009 and 25 November 2009, mirroring events at the Moel y Parc parent station.

The Bala transmitting station is a facility for television transmission sited about 6 km east of the town of Bala in Gwynedd, north Wales. It consists of a self-supporting 45 m lattice steel mast standing on high ground about 310 m above sea level. It is owned and operated by Arqiva. Currently the site provides digital TV to the area. HistoryThe station was built by the ITA in 1967 to provide a 405-line ITV Band III (VHF) TV service for the area, and was officially classed as a relay of Preseli. In December 1974 the site became a low power UHF analogue colour television relay of Moel y Parc; at that time carrying BBC One, BBC Two and ITV. S4C was added in 1982. The 405-line TV system was finally discontinued in the UK in 1985, but Bala's VHF transmitters were decommissioned a year early: in 1984. Digital switchover at Bala happened between 28 October 2009 and 25 November 2009, mirroring events at the Moel y Parc parent station.