Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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.
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Freeview channels does the The Wrekin 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 The Wrekin transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-midlands-today.jpg)
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-central.jpg)
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
C51tv_off | _local |
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 1-5 | 100kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
The Wrekin Freeview The Wrekin DAB The Wrekin TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 17 April 2011
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Dennis9:03 AM
Just bought a dion reciever twin recorder.I am based in Stoke and receive signal from the Wrekin. have done auto tune but can only receive all BBC channels, nothing else. However, I can still receive itv, Ch4 and 5 on normaal tv but not via set top box. After 20th April will i be able to pick up all chnnels???
or does anyone have ideas on tune in, although it does tune in automatically. Thanks
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steve3:11 PM
Nottingham
Dennis - At the moment the Digital BBC signals are 10 times stronger than the others, which will get stronger next Wednesday, when the "normal" TV signal is switched off.
Thew Digital BBC has taken over the old BBC1 slot. Presumably you now get "normal" BBC1 where BBC2 used to be?
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steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
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Jiles1:11 AM
Since the switchover has begun has anyone noticed a loss of all digital channels I've restored my tv to factory settings and scanned about five times no signal at all and same for my living room tv.
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THE WREKIN transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:38 today [BBC]
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THE WREKIN transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:38 today [BBC]
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THE WREKIN transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:38 today to 04:09 today [BBC]
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THE WREKIN transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:38 today to 04:09 today [BBC]
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