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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Malvern 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
 V max
C41 (634.0MHz)204mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)204mDTG-400W
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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47- (681.8MHz)204mDTG-400W
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
 V max
C29 (538.0MHz)204mDTG-8400W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C31- (553.8MHz)203mDTG-8400W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C37 (602.0MHz)204mDTG-8400W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 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 Malvern (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 Malvern transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Mar 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TW T
C29SDN
C31ArqA
C37ArqB
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C47BBCB
C50tv_offSDN
C51tv_off_local_local
C53tv_offBBCA
C55tv_offArqB
C56tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C57tv_offD3+4
C59tv_off-ArqA
C60tv_off-BBCB
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C66ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C68C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-10dB) 200W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield 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. Malvern 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.

Comments
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

2:39 PM

matt: Your signal may be too strong. If you have a booster or amplifier, remove it from your system. If you don't, you may have to fit an attenuator.

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Sunday, 7 August 2011
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M Wainwright
9:45 AM
Worcester

Hi all, Postcode WR5 1QU, communal ariel facing malvern, built in freeview in samsung tv, all channels being recieved BUT having checked signal strength via the tv channels broadcast from transmitter I.D. 3064 are all fine running at 92% BUT channels with I.D. 3084 are only running at 21% so are breaking up. the ariel is set at vertical and at 249 degrees west. can anyone help please?

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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
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Aaron
1:50 AM
Worcester

previous post explains why my freeview has cut out then, luckily freesat built into tv so not so bad

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Monday, 15 August 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:05 AM

M Wainwright: You should probably just hang on until 7th/14th September 2011 when switchover on the Malvern transmitter is complete: All six multiplexes will operate at 400W and in the same mode (well, except the HD one) and should provide the same signal quality to you for all services.

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Sunday, 21 August 2011
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m Wainwright
10:38 AM

Briantist. Many thanks for your comments, after the community housing ariel engineer tried just about everything possiblle, he arrived at the same conclusion as you did, however there may be more problems after the signal is boosted to full power, mainly caused by a signal being picked up through the back of the ariel from the more powerful sutton transmitter. But it seems to be a case of wait and see. Thanks again.

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Thursday, 25 August 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:46 AM

m Wainwright: Thanks. Can you please let me know how you get on next month?

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Mike Dimmick
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:20 PM

m Wainwright: If you have two different transmitter IDs showing up, it's likely that you have a case of Digital Region Overlap. A couple of threads on avforums.com suggest that transmitter ID 3064 is Sutton Coldfield while 3084 is The Wrekin, though the 'name' is set to West Midlands for both. Malvern might be using the same multiplex data as Sutton Coldfield, though.
In the screen that's showing the transmitter IDs, can you check that the UHF channels/frequencies it's tuned into match those that Malvern transmits on? To calculate the frequency for a channel number, subtract 21 from the channel number, multiply by 8000 kHz, and add 474000 kHz. If there is a + after the channel number, add 167 kHz and if a -, subtract 167 kHz.
If the frequencies indicate that other transmitters are being used, try clearing all channels and doing a manual retune on the frequencies used by Malvern. If that produces worse results than what you have now, or it won't tune in at all, the communal system engineer will need to figure out why.
If this is a channelized system - where each channel desired is filtered and amplified separately, all undesired channels being unamplified or even dropped - it will need to be retuned at switchover. Make sure that the engineer is using the *current* list of channel numbers (middle row above) rather than the after DSO list (bottom row): unusually, Malvern will use *none* of the current channels, either analogue or digital, after DSO. (The local service on C51 won't start until at least 2013.).

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Monday, 29 August 2011
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luke horwat
8:49 PM

hi my 85 year old mother living in penhill swindon had a very unusual incident; she had a phonecall from someone who asked her what make of tv she had. she put the phone down as she thought it was a salesman. then the tv lost all its reception. what is going on!!! are these two incidents related? is it to do with the chabgeover? we thought the tv had been sorted for the changeover. any answers please.

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Monday, 5 September 2011
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Matt
sentiment_satisfiedSilver

5:19 PM
Godalming

M.Wainwright: If it really is a problem, a stacked pair could be fitted. What type/brand aerial is it?

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