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The symbol shows the location of the Whitworth (Rochdale, England) transmitter which serves 3,200 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 Whitworth (Rochdale, England) mast?

WHITWORTH transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 19 Dec 11:00 until 19 Dec 13:38. . DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 19 Dec 11:00 until 19 Dec 13:53. . BBC


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Which Freeview channels does the Whitworth 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C28 (530.0MHz)392mDTG-50W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)392mDTG-50W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)392mDTG-50W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Whitworth (Rochdale, 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 Whitworth transmitter?

regional news image
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 24km south-southwest (201°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
regional news image
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 24km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.

How will the Whitworth (Rochdale, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1331 Mar 2018-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.

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

Analogue 1-4 250W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50W

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

May 1956-Jul 1968Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Granada Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Whitworth 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.

Comments
Friday, 21 January 2011
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Diana McGowan
10:23 AM

My television is still not working (says "no signal"). Do you know when the Whitworth transmitter is likely to be back in action?

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Monday, 24 January 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:23 AM

Diana McGowan: It was back on air at 15:09.

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Friday, 10 February 2012
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Steve Nicholls
10:30 PM
Rochdale

Greetings to you . I was installing tv aerials & satellite dishes down south , prior to moving to whitworth . I would however be most great full for any information on the procedure to set-up the correct direction using postcodes & or Gps settings ? I currently have a 6ft mast on a bungalow for the Whitworth booster station , & a 16ft pole ( on end of house )New aerial & ct100 cable with a 22db amp which i would like to pick up the best transmiter with the full range of free view channels.
( Naturally i have satellite as well ! )
Many thanks for your helpfull site :)


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Sunday, 26 February 2012
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
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m robinson
2:01 PM

Whitworth transmitter is off, confirmed by local TV shop

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Monday, 7 December 2015
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mal
12:40 AM

Whitworth transmitter gone off. Confirmed by other residents. OL12

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Sunday, 28 November 2021
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Karen Johnson
5:27 PM

Transmiitter engineering: I am so frustrated that I can't watch my TV, and all my programs that I tape wont be be tapeing, I am OL128EP, I believe it's a transmitter problems, but u have had a long time to sought this out for years, it's not good enough someone ,needs to put money in and sought this permanently, I bet the person that's in charge as a great reception, please get this sorted

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Monday, 29 November 2021
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Chris.SE
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3:29 AM

Karen Johnson:

There is nothing for us to sort.

1) This is an independent free helpsite for people with reception problems, we don't maintain the transmitters or the electricity network or National grid or control the weather.

2) You may have noticed from the post following yours that the BBC reported the "fault".
The "fault" was actually due to one of the many power outages cause by severe damage in many places as a result of Storm Arwen! Had you referred to Electricity NorthWest's website, you might have been aware of it!

3) Did you not experience any power outages yourself? If not, you were lucky because some others in your postcode did!

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Monday, 7 October 2024
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11:20 AM

WHITWORTH transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 7 Oct 09:00. . [BBC]

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2:20 PM

WHITWORTH transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 7 Oct 09:00 until 7 Oct 11:31. . [BBC]

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