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.
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 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 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?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
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 |
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 withheldThursday, 21 April 2011
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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Vinny4:37 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 Dean4:54 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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Gary6:22 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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Steve7:23 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 Hadlington9:32 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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Steve1:54 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 Dimmick3:22 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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Steve11:15 AM
Wrexham
What are they 2k and 8k of?
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jordan12:43 PM
Wolverhampton
at night i pick up bbc one wales and all the channels that are on that multiplex but the signal gets weaker and then it has gone
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