Spur Hill

Spur Hill
Location in Ireland
Highest point
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Coordinates
Geography
Location	County Cork, Ireland

Spur Hill transmitter
This broadcast transmission site is located to the south of the city of Cork, Ireland, just North West of Cork airport, it has a cable-stayed mast 60m tall on an elevation of 137m ASL. The transmitter was initially opened in 1965 as a VHF relay of the main Mullaghanish television transmitter in County Cork. Later, FM radio transmitters were also added providing a relay of the national radio channels, and more recently, digital radio broadcasting (DAB) was started from the site. On its conversion to UHF television transmission in 1996, it became the main transmitter serving Cork city, carrying the four Irish analogue channels, RTÉ One (Ch53), RTÉ Two (Ch57), TV3 (Ch60), and TG4 (Ch63) at an effective radiated power of 20 kW. On 24 October 2012 all analogue television transmission ended in Ireland, and the station now provides the Irish DTT service Saorview to Cork city and environs. It is owned and operated by 2RN, a subsidiary of the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ.

Current transmissions

Digital television

Frequency	UHF	kW	Multiplex	Pol
666 MHz	45	50	Saorview 1	H
698 MHz	49	50	Saorview 2	H

Digital Radio

Frequency	Block	kW	Multiplex
227.360 MHz	12C	10	DAB Ireland Mux 1

Analogue FM radio

Frequency	kW	Service
89.2 MHz	5	RTÉ Radio 1
91.4 MHz	5	RTÉ 2fm
93.6 MHz	5	RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
98.8 MHz	5	RTÉ lyric fm
101.0 MHz	5	Today FM

Spur Hill Digital TV relay transmitter

Relay transmitter	County	Mux 1	Mux 2	kW	Pol
Collins Barracks	Cork	50	40	0.08	V

External links

• www.rtenl.ie
• saorview.ie