Les Platons

Les Platons
Highest point
Elevation	136 m (446 ft)
Prominence	136 m (446 ft)
Listing	Hardy
Coordinates	49°14′52.05″N2°06′17.43″W
Geography
Les Platons Jersey

Les Platonsis the highest point ofJersey,aBritishCrown dependency,with an elevation of 136 metres (446 ft). It is located in theVingtaine de la Ville-à-l'Évêquein the parish ofTrinity.

There areradio transmitters,and aradar stationlocated at Les Platons.

In October 1955, Les Platons was used as a site for a television transmitter to bring BBC Television (later renamedBBC One) transmissions to theChannel Islands.It transmitted BBC Television on the VHF405 line serviceon channel 4 from Monday 3 October 1955.From 1955, the site was also used to bring the BBC national radio stations to the Channel Islands. Before 1955 the Channel Islands had no transmitters, and received radio transmissions of the BBC national radio stations from mainland England.

The BBC started FM transmissions on 16 October 1961 from Les Platons, of theHome,LightandThirdProgrammes (had started in the UK in the mid-to-late 1950s). Later this became 91.1 as Radio 2 (with occasional Radio 1), 94.75 as Radio 3 (later rounded up to 94.8), and 97.1 as Radio 4.

TheFremont Point transmitterabout 2 km west of Les Platons would go on the air in September 1962 bringing Independent Television (ITV) to the Channel Islands for the first time in the form of the ITV franchise Channel Television. In due course Fremont Point became the main television transmitter site for the Channel Islands. It started broadcasting UHF625 televisionin 1976 along with the introduction for the first time of BBC2 and colour television to the Channel Islands.

Les Platons television transmissions ceased in 1985 when the old VHF 405 line transmissions ceased in the UK. From 1985 onwards, Les Platons has been a radio transmitter site only.

See also

• Arqiva
• Geography of Jersey

External links

• (in English)Les Platons, Jersey, Channel Islands,Planet Ware.
• Les Platons Transmitter at thebigtower