Full Freeview on the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 30,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) mast?
Bromsgrove transmitter - Bromsgrove transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, 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 Bromsgrove 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 Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, 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 Bromsgrove transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 18km northeast (41°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 18km northeast (40°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | K T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C23 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C26 | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C29 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C41 | +SDN | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB |
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 | 2.8kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-8.5dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux D* | (-17.5dB) 50W | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-20.5dB) 25W |
Local transmitter maps
Bromsgrove Freeview Bromsgrove DAB Bromsgrove TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bromsgrove transmitter area
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
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Nick Cooper9:13 PM
Worcester
Hello - based in WR4 0DJ, with Bromsgrove signal. Aerial is in the loft (which I'd imagine is going to be prime culprit for attack!)
Before switchover today, we had the channels on (what is now) BBCA and ArqB; today, we have a net gain as we now have all the BBCA, D3+4, SDN and ArqA channels. However ArqB is totally gone in its new position. Is this something expected, based on the new multiplex channels? It's only a pity because we used to like having ITV4 and Yesterday!
Apart from that, the signal isn't too shoddy considering; though it seems to go "blocky" every half an hour or so, which seems oddly like a pattern. Nothing that could cause interference in the house, though, so can't quite work out why.
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Paul B.10:02 PM
Droitwich
Hello, we are in Droitwich using the Bromsgrove transmitter and have lost many channels today on retuning. The only station we had problems with before the first retune the other week was BBC4. After which BBC4 was then fine but there was then some break up on ITV3, 5* & 5USA.
Now, I have gone through the manual retune procedure given in tvretune.co.uk. Incidentally TVRetune indicates we should have good reception all round at the moment. Groups 1,2&4 seem fine but we have no reception on Groups 3 & 5 -channels 33 & 34, with no signal for most stations such as ITV3, 5* or Film4 ITV4.
This applies to both set top boxes served by one roof aerial with boosters as previously was the case. I would appreciate any advice, cheers.
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mike fisher10:37 PM
have you tried a manual retune of channels 33 and 34. I live in Droitwich and have done a factory default reset on all my boxes and digital tvs and am getting all channels without break up.
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Nick Cooper11:32 PM
Worcester
I know something I forgot to mention: our set top box is a cheap one, and just to be irritating doesn't have a manual retune option; only automatic.
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
Nick Cooper: You may have to wait until September 2011, but otherwise see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help.
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AWED6:59 PM
Hi, I have an LG 37LE4500 TV and a Humax HDR Fox T2 Freeview+ PVR. Aerial is in the loft, with boosters, feeding through PVR into TV.
Baffled by what has happened since the switchover on transmitter yesterday. The PVR has retuned well, has BBC HD now (didn't before), found over 80 channels. The TV can find only 27 channels in total, no BBC channels at all - none. I have followed instructions on doing a full re-tune, repeated a dozen times. Prior to transmitter change both devices had all the same channels.
How come? How can the two devices have such different sensitivity - and only now, when, supposedly, the digital signal is 12 times stronger? None of this makes sense.
In Worcester WR4 district.
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AWED7:45 PM
Following my previous post: I have discovered that my PVR can see channel 26 and rates it as 75% signal strength 100% quality. The TV says "no signal" for channel 26.
Eh? The two devices are on the same aerial. How can this be?
Did a factory reset on the TV but same result.
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Friday, 22 April 2011
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LRC1:08 AM
Bromsgrove
Since part two of the DSO we have lost all ArqB channels ? Checking various web sites there seems to be confusion as to where this should be... 47, 34, 29 etc.. according to my TV 29 is ArqA.
Is ArqB being transmitted from Bromsgrove ? if so where is it !!
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Mike Dimmick2:23 AM
LRC: ArqA is on C29, ArqB is on C34. SDN is on C33. Before switchover started, Mux 1 was on C34, but the post-switchover ArqB requires twice as much signal as Mux 1 did.
The definitive source is Digital UK's postcode checker. The broadcasters have been making some very late changes and the regulator (Ofcom) isn't keeping up with the official licence documents.
This website can't cope with the multiple post-switchover changes. It generally shows the final state that the transmitter will be in when all the changes are complete, with a note below indicating any temporary channels. This note comes from Ofcom's documents, which are now out of date.
The postcode checker shows 99-100% chance, which usually indicates high signal levels. If you have a booster or amplifier, you should remove it - too much signal causes signal from one channel to bleed into another, and adjacent channels are the worst affected.
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Mike Dimmick2:37 AM
AWED: Try without the boosters. You shouldn't need them any more.
The loop-through RF output on the PVR usually has slightly more gain than is lost by the PVR itself, so you can end up with more level, going over the TV's limits. Or it could simply be that the TV can't handle as much signal as the PVR can.
The meters can often be deceptive. On my Humax PVR-9200T, the Confederation of Aerial Installers' recommended range of signal levels (before switchover) appeared as 35% to 50%.
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