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The symbol shows the location of the Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) transmitter which serves 34,000 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 Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) mast?

Fenham transmitter - Fenham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Fenham 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
C23 (490.0MHz)171mDTG-400W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) North East and Cumbria, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)171mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Tyne Tees), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Tyne Tees), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C30+ (546.2MHz)171mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North East and Cumbria, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North 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
C25 (506.0MHz)171mDTG-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
C22+ (482.2MHz)172mDTG-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
C28 (530.0MHz)172mDTG-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)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Fenham transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 3km east-southeast (108°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
regional news image
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 2km south-southwest (206°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border

How will the Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1313 Nov 2019
A K TW TW TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCB
C22+ArqAArqA
C23BBCA
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C25SDNSDN
C26D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C28ArqBArqB
C30_localBBCB
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4wavescom7
C36_local
C37com8
C56tv_offC5wavesC5waves

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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-5 2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, com7, com8, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-17dB) 40W
Mux C*, Mux D*(-20dB) 20W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Pontop Pike transmitter area

Jan 1959-Feb 2004Tyne Tees 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. Fenham 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
Monday, 8 August 2011
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Dave Stobbs
1:45 PM

Just further to this, we have a Samsung TV with inbuilt freeview digital TV. We live in South Shields and for the last 6 yrs plus have had no problems at all. Recently I noted a poor signal on some of the channels, esp ITV1, the picture pixelating. Now, it won't even pick these channels (itv1, channel 4, channel 5 up at all and when I scan it can't find them. I've reset to factory settings but still no joy.Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
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Dave Stobbs
9:45 AM

Briantist - thanks for getting back. I've been trying auto stores over the last few days and still no ITV1/channel4 etc, but I've just tried it again there and it's addedd them all back in! Can only think the signal for this MUX group was too weak to pick up on the auto scans.

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Friday, 12 August 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:43 AM

Dave Stobbs: I am pleased to hear that the signal is back and working for you.

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Monday, 12 September 2011
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Derek Ellerton
10:37 PM

Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Stoke on Trent including Newcastle under Lyme could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Fenham transmitter using C30.
And this one belongs on Fenton not Fenham

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Derek Ellerton's 2 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Briantist
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4:23 PM

Derek Ellerton: Sorry, copy and paste error.

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Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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karen whiteside
11:47 AM
Prudhoe

I have lost digtal freeview reception since yesterday, min 11th June.
Have retuned several times but it wont pick up any digital channels only the usual 4, with poor reception
Have switched over to Newton using a table top areiral.
We have no problems in receiving channels up to yesterday, TV is less than two years old.
Please help.


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Monday, 9 July 2012
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David
12:28 AM
Gateshead

sometimes we have Yesterday and film 4 for a couple of days and sometimes for a few minutes only but most of the times nothing. Is there a problem with the transmitter?

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Monday, 17 September 2012
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Mr M. T. Whittle
9:47 AM
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Having a problem with reception on Channel's 12. Yesterday,15. Film 4, 24. ITV4 which are breaking down and pixalateing, several of the other platform channels have intermittent picture freezing I've checked signal strength and it's showing Red and says poor signal strength. I have purchased a new free view box
(Tvonics)and it was fine before the change over on the 12th. I have retuned the box but it has made little difference? Can you Help please?

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Dave Lindsay
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10:11 AM

Mr M. T. Whittle: These services are carried on Mux D and it is presently on UHF channel 57 from Fenham and C53 from Pontop Pike. Check that it hasn't tuned to the other.

If it is tuned correctly, then hopefully when it goes to full power on 26th, it will come good.

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