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Sept 2021
TV signal in Harrogate district could return early October
TV signal could return by next month as works on the Bilsdale replacement mast are set to be complete by October 5, says telecommunications company Arqiva.
The temporary mast is replacing the Bilsdale mast after it was damaged in a fire in August.
Since then residents across the Harrogate district have been without TV signal or had a reduced channel list. Some have also experienced channels come and go.
But now Arqiva has told residents the temporary mast should be complete by October 5, three weeks after work began.
The temporary mast will be 80 metres high and provides Freeview TV signals to 90% of homes which were covered the Bilsdale mast. It has been built in a quarry near to the original mast.
Adrian Twyning, chief of operations at Arqiva, said:
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