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Freeview Light on the Whittingslow (Shropshire, England) transmitter

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

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52.492,-2.842 or 52°29'32"N 2°50'33"W

SY6 6QA

The symbol shows the location of the Whittingslow (Shropshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,400 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 Whittingslow (Shropshire, England) mast?

WHITTINGSLOW transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 28 Dec 09:13 until 28 Dec 09:33. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 27 Dec 22:14 until 27 Dec 22:37. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 1

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

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Which Freeview channels does the Whittingslow 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	C33- (569.8MHz)	283m	DTG-	11W
	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	C36 (594.0MHz)	283m	DTG-	11W
	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	C48 (690.0MHz)	283m	DTG-	11W
	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 Whittingslow (Shropshire, 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 Whittingslow transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 64km east (91°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 63km east (91°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Whittingslow (Shropshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	7 Mar 2018
	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E T	K T
C33					BBCA
C36					D3+4
C48					BBCB
C53_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C57_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4
C60_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-BBCA
C63	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.

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

Analogue 1-4	56W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7.1dB) 11W

Local transmitter maps

Whittingslow Freeview Sutton Coldfield TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield 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. Whittingslow 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?

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5:09 AM

transmitter - : Weather conditions may be affecting your from 27 Dec 22:14. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 10:44 until 26 Dec 22:44. . [BBC]

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8:20 AM

transmitter - : Weather conditions may be affecting your from 27 Dec 22:14 until 27 Dec 22:37. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 10:44 until 26 Dec 22:44. . [BBC]

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11:20 AM

transmitter - : Weather conditions may be affecting your from 28 Dec 09:13 until 28 Dec 09:33. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 27 Dec 22:14 until 27 Dec 22:37. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 25 Dec 1 [BBC]

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