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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?

The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C26 (514.0MHz)455mDTG-20,000W
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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
 H max
C23 (490.0MHz)455mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C30- (545.8MHz)455mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C41+ (634.2MHz)455mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C44 (658.0MHz)455mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C47 (682.0MHz)455mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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
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
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?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-1327 Feb 2018
A K TA K TA K TW TK T
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C26BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCABBCA
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C30-BBCBBBCB
C33BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C35C5wavesC5waves
C41+SDNSDN
C44ArqAArqA
C47ArqBArqB
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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent 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. The Wrekin 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?

Radiation patterns withheld

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Thursday, 21 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick
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3:37 PM

Briantist: It may be opposite to the way Ofcom said a few weeks ago, but it's the way Digital UK are saying now.

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Briantist
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3:44 PM

Mike Dimmick: There was a problem with the code on this page, it should be now showing the correct allocation.

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Briantist
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3:56 PM

Steve: Sorry, there was also a problem with this page not displaying the changed information anyway. I have now fixed it.

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Vinny
4:37 PM
Shifnal

Thanks Mike.
It all worked fine before this latest DSO action. The previous 53 & 57 muxes had been a bit flakey in the past, especially 57, but had been good as gold for many months (I'd assumed some tweaking at the transmitter end had improved matters there). As I said, I tried hooking-up an already-retuned FV box in the same room - which involved adding even more coax cable to the same run - and it worked fine, even performed a full re-tune, no problem, with signal reported as good. I could try taking the TV off its wall bracket, and try it in another room, and/or try running a temporary coax from another room, in order to ascertain the problem. Hopefully, the September DSO will eventually sort it out, or maybe a magical transmitter tweak in the meantime will fix it!?

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Tony Dean
4:54 PM

hello there, can anybody help me
i have a phillips/pace hd recorder i retuned after the switchover and had 69 channels which included all the hd channels but because of getting that inherent problem with signal lost on the screen i decided to do a full factory restore and reset the box and now have no hd channels at all
i live in Weston Lullingfields would i be correct in assuming that i will not get the full signal until September

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Gary
6:22 PM

I am on the Wrekin transmitter and since switch over I have lost all channels and only get a blue screen. I have tried directly into the TV which is a Samsung with built in Freeview and re-tuned but to no avail. I was told that my aerial did not need changing but I am thinking this may be the case...Any thoughts?

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Steve
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7:23 PM
Wrexham

Tony Dean - Are you using a satellite dish as well as or instead of an aerial? AFAIK there was no Freeview HD before Wednesday?
Though I do not have a HD tuner, so may be wrong.

Gary - if you were getting Freeview before you should certainly be getting it now. Sounds like the aerial is not plugged in.

Or were you just getting analogue 1-5?

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Angelina Hadlington
9:32 PM
Brierley Hill

Have retuned several times. Set top box is Samsung DV3. I am in the DY5 area and it was fine on the 19th.

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Friday, 22 April 2011
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Steve
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1:54 AM
Wrexham

Angelina - I suspect you have not retuned successfully. You need a full retune/initial installation.

See the instructions in the yellow box where you post questions.

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Mike Dimmick
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3:22 AM

Angelina Hadlington: Samsung have never made a box called a DV3. I think this is the DVB project's logo. There should be another label on it somewhere with the model number - probably next to the serial number.

There's a Samsung box on the list of equipment that doesn't support the 8K mode. If it's an SIRU200i, I'm afraid you'll have to replace it.

8K mode was always in the DVB-T specification, but up until switchover the UK has used 2K mode. 8K mode is more robust, allows the use of Single Frequency Networks (e.g. The Wrekin, Bromsgrove and Lark Stoke work together as one, using the same channels), and every other country is using it.

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