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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter._______
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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Thursday, 8 September 2011
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David S9:58 AM
Leicester
brian
thanks for that
yes - now i look more carefully, i see that programme 2 is no longer BBC2, but is in fact now ITV1
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
charles: No, that is not correct. If you had all of the Freeview services before yesterday, you should have them all today. If you had none, you should only have the BBCA multiplex.
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Wendy Wheeldon10:46 AM
Derby
Thanks jb 38. I may try manual tune but otherwise will wait until 21st and see what happens
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Wendy's: mapW's Freeview map terrainW's terrain plot wavesW's frequency data W's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick11:07 AM
Paul Kelly: The whole point of digital switch-over is that analogue has to be switched OFF in order to allow high-power digital. BBC Two is always the first channel to go, because that was the channel with the least viewing that was available at (nearly) all relays, and of course the BBC have two analogue channels.
Analogue BBC One should still be around on C46, but - along with ITV1 and C4, and C5 from Lichfield - will go on the 21st so that the remaining multiplexes can go high-power.
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Bec11:21 AM
In Tamworth we actually use the Hints transmitter, not Sutton Coalfield, so after the recent DSO there has been no difference. So I was wondering when Hints will be upgraded ... I phoned up the people who allegedly know, and they'd never even heard of the Hints transmitter.
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Bec: No, I have never heard of a "Hints transmitter" either, but I suspect you mean Lichfield.
If you mean Lichfield, this mast was was only used for Channel 5 on analogue and the pre-DSO Freeview HD service. There were no other channels on it.
If you could provide a postcode, it might be possible to assist further.
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Dennis11:44 AM
Bec,the HD service from Hints will not be upgaded,on full DSO on the 21st of this month,all services,incuding HD, will come from the Sutton Coldfield site.
Right now the transmitter power for HD service is 4KW from Hints,when it starts from Sutton this will go to 200KW,as will all the remaining MUXs.
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Dennis11:52 AM
Hints,it's the local name for the site Briantist,I am from Tamworth as well :) I can see how asking about Hints would confuse people though :)
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Gemma Haran1:43 PM
I'm not getting any channel 3 or 4 channels anybody help?
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