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Freeview Light on the Hereford (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.024,-2.695 or 52°1'26"N 2°41'42"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Hereford (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Hereford (County of Herefordshire, England) mast?

Hereford transmitter - Hereford transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Hereford transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C44 (658.0MHz)	179m	DTG-	7W
	1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 19 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	179m	DTG-	7W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C47 (682.0MHz)	179m	DTG-	7W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Hereford (County of Herefordshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hereford transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 74km northeast (47°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 74km northeast (47°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Hereford (County of Herefordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1950s-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	1 Mar 2018-
	VHF	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T	B E K T
C2	BBCtv_waves
C41		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	+D3+4	D3+4
C44		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C47		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C51_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves

_{tv_off} Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
_waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	23W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-5.2dB) 7W

Local transmitter maps

Hereford Freeview Ridge Hill TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Ridge Hill transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hereford was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Comments

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

KNibz
10:07 AM

in (HR5, near the church) is rubbish even with a boostbox, it regularly drops out completely or registers as 'bad signal' - Any way to improve ? Will transmitters be improved?

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Dave Lindsay

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12:01 PM

KNibz: Which does your face? Have you confirmed that you are tuned to that transmitter and not another one?

There may be two possibilities at your location: the easiest being , which carries only PSB and is on the hill on Brickyard Road, and .

For each of the following, bring up the strength screen and ensure that it is tuned to the UHF channel of your chosen transmitter:

PSB1 | BBC One | Kington= | Sutton Coldfield=
PSB2 | ITV | Kington= | Sutton Coldfield=
PSB3 | BBC One HD | Kington= | Sutton Coldfield=
COM4 | ITV3 | Sutton Coldfield=
COM5 | Pick TV | Sutton Coldfield=
COM6 | Film4 | Sutton Coldfield=

See this page for a list of by (i.e. which ones belong to each PSB/COM):

DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex

If your aerial is vertical (elements up/down) and directed to Kington and you have COM channels tuned in, then they are coming from elsewhere and so expect to be poor.

If your aerial is horizontal (elements flat) and directed to Sutton Coldfield, but your TV has tuned in Kington (for PSBs), then you need to correct this.

If you put the on in an effort to improve matters and you find that your TV is tuned incorrectly, then it might be a good idea to remove the booster.

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Monday, 25 November 2024

Transmitter engineering

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10:48 AM

- Hereford transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 25/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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