A Dundee councillor has described the city’s digital TV output as a postcode lottery.
Thousands of households in the city receive fewer TV channels from digital terrestrial TV than others served by a different TV transmitter.
Lib Dem councillor Fraser MacPherson has written to Maria Miller MP, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, calling for the government to review the multiplex arrangements on Freeview.
He said: “It is postcode lottery for many of my constituents as the majority of them particularly in the southern part of the West End ward can only get TV signals from the Tay Bridge relay transmitter that carries a reduced number of TV and radio channels.”
He continued: “Here in Dundee, those who are served by the main Angus main transmitter get all Freeview TV and radio channels, but in the case of Tay Bridge transmitter, its 35,000 viewers do not get access to Freeview, including most residents of the West End and City Centre and much of Craigiebank and Broughty Ferry, as well as parts of north Fife.”
