Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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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._______
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 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 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.
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?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
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?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 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
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Saturday, 17 September 2011
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Phil4:08 PM
I have a new Humax PVR-9150T. I re-tuned on the 7th. All stations working fine. But reception on commercial channels this afternoon (17th) is rubbish. Reminiscent of Spain where any adverse weather causes signal to break up or fail altogether.
I was under the impression that switching completely to digital would improve the signal.
Why is this not the case?
I am in a WR5 postcode area.
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jb385:24 PM
Phil: WR5 indicates that you can be receiving from a few stations, this making it impossible to advise as reception possibilities cannot be carried out with any element of accuracy, as only a full post code can enable this to be done.
Digital does not automatically mean improved reception, this due to its "digital cliff" cut off effect whereby if the signal drops under a certain level it disappears, or if its continually hovering just above this level the picture can suffer from frequent spells of breaking up etc.
Digital scores over analogue because the picture quality remains constant over a wide range of reception strengths, unlike analogue where speckles start to develop as the signal gets weaker, albeit though that it doesn't cut off, this being its plus point!
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Phil8:31 PM
Worcester
Jb38:
Surely the signal can be strengthened though. I thought that was the idea once the analogue signal was switched off?
And why is the BBC signal so much stronger?
My aerial is digital and currently aimed at the Malvern transmitter. Would re-aligning it to Sutton Coldfield be a better bet?
My full postcode is WR5 3RA.
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Monday, 19 September 2011
Phil: As switchover completes on Wednesday, when the final signal levels are introduced, you would be best advised to wait until then. Only BBCA is on full power at the moment (see the top of the page).
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Phil: The usual reason for rain effecting Freeview reception is that water is leaking into the cables, but for other reasons see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Some earlier models of the Humax PVR can function badly between the first and second stages of switchover, but - given a memory wipe - they will work perfectly from the second stage.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Simon Trant12:49 AM
Wednesday 21st Sept 00.07
Freeview crashed and on retuning only 21 BBC channels are currently available. As I was watching the final few moments of a very good film this was very annoying!!
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Jon-G2:15 AM
Aylesbury
My recording of 'True Blood' on Channel 4 failed at 00:06 on the 21st, they didn't waste any time getting started on the process of switchover!
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Jon-G5:19 AM
Aylesbury
Malvern transmitter at 05-20 approx, checking the frequencies the were due to become active according to the above info
C50 dead
C51 dead
C53 C55 C57 C59 Working, one of them started
up at about 04-40
C60 dead
All of the stations that I watch seem to be covered by the 4 multiplexes currently working, maybe there's a Colin missing if so I wouldn't know, Dave is there OK
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Jon-G5:48 AM
Aylesbury
05:43 or earlier, C50 lives!
I think it said somewhere that it should all be over by 06:00, though a neighbour said he had heard on some form of news outlet to expect disruptions up to 'lunchtime'
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David Adams7:20 AM
Update. Getting BBC Channels on Sony now, but on Humax the signal is up and down. Can not manage to get channel 60, (sky news or hd channels on Sony HDTv. Nor non hd channels on the Humax. Very disppointed. Tv can pick up HD as l lived in the Ridge Hill area, when switchover happened there.
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