Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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 Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?
Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sutton Coldfield 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
| Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
| Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C48 | _local | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
| com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
| LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
jane clamp: Yes, as per "18 May and 19 May 2011: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 00:01 to 06:00 on 18 May and 19 May 2011. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2 and ITV will be subject to periods of shutdown between 00:01 and 06:00 Digital services Mux A, Mux 2 and Mux C will be subject to service interruptions between 00:01 and 06:00"
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multi-perplexed12:49 PM
this all makes me laugh for a couple of reasons:
1) how none of you seem to be able to or can't be arsed with reading the warning that the service is liable to interruption that is posted quite clearly all over this site
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2) how none of you can cope with losing TV for a few hours. There isn't anything decent on TV the best of times let alone 0100 - 0600 in the morning! Get a life people! You not have partners that you can have entertainment with? :P
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AB6:42 PM
For the record - the specific time and date periods of transmitter work WERE NOT MENTIONED at the time the majority of comments were posted. I'll spell it out, they were added after, Hence the comments! "D'oh!"
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
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Andy In Leamington12:05 AM
Leamington Spa
AB is correct, there were no warnings of this at the time of the above posts, and all google searches stated that the transmitter was working fully with no problem. So thanks, but I can read and I can be arsed, and I have better things to do than hang around sites posting snidey comments.
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Andy's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Andy In Leamington12:09 AM
Leamington Spa
Midlands Today warned this evening off possible interruptions, bit there was no such warning on Tuesday evening. Perhaps this would explain why those of us who posted went on google and found this page?
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Andy's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Carl Amari1:23 AM
@ multi perplexed.
You make me laugh for a couple of reasons:
1) The fact that you are too stupid to consider that the message detailing the times of the maintenance could be posted AFTER a lot of posts.
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2) You criticise people for not having a life and yet you took the time to find and post on this thread. I would suggest you get a life yourself, mine is just fine.
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Jacktar10:08 AM
Up until one month ago I could get DTV Freeview channels 12 15 24 but now there's no signal .......can anyone explain please.
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Linda Titley10:00 PM
Dudley
We live in Dudley. Since yesterday, our freeview signals have deteriorated, to the point of the "No signal" message. Do you know why? We have retuned, as your site instructed, and lost a lot of channels. Does anybody know what is going on? Where can we get any information?
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