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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
Friday, 30 September 2011
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Jon Musselwhite
9:07 AM
Worcester

Well I have tried following your advice, I have disconnected all other devices and turned them of, I have unplugged all cables except aerial from tv reset and re scanned and still no HD channels. I have a new 'wideband' aerial and it is now connected straight to the tv and i have a very good signal 9/10 and a quality of 10 on all streams except 60 where the quality strength is zero but signal strength is 9! Everything was working fine from the switchover to a couple of days ago so logically the only thing that seems to have changed is the transmitter?

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Jon Musselwhite
9:18 AM
Worcester

Yes I have a Freeview HD tuner built into the tv, as I said, I was getting the HD channels just fine and for no reason when I switched on the tv it said 'no signal' when one of the HD channels was selected. So it seems like they just stopped transmitting!

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RobL
9:31 AM
Worcester

WR3 7DJ
No HD channels when I checked last night and none this morning - either LG TV or Humax Fox T2. Despite what is being detailed, it would appear to be a transmitter problem on channel 60; everything else is good.

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Brian WR5
10:15 AM

I finally got around to trying taking out my booster to see if my quality issue in media centre was down to too much signal - and it made not a scrap of difference.

I therefore tried executing the ScanChannelsBDA_UK utility both with and without the booster and got the following results :

Ch# - Freq - Strength/Quality w/o booster - Strength/Quality with booster

C50 - 706.000 - 61% / 100% - 79% / 99%
C53 - 730.000 - 59% / 96% - 75% / 100%
C55 - 746.000 - 57% / 100% - 73% / 100%
C57 - 762.000 - 60% / 100% - 76% / 100%
C59 - 777.833 - 57% / 100% - 74% / 100%

Since I am more interested in the TV channels available on C53 than on C50 I plan to continue using the booster.

The Win 7 Media Centre "Edit sources" screen reports quality as anything between 0% and 60% on these five frequencies (plus, interesingly, 44%/99% on 738.000 which is not broadcast by Malvern!). I manually set the Malvern frequencies at the top of the list regardless of MC-reported quality and the picture on all TV channels is pretty much OK although I do get some picture break-up (not pixellation) which I didn't get before.

I still don't understand why my WMC quality is low given that I used to get 100% pre-DSO so if anyone has any more thoughts I would be happy to try any other suggestions.

Brian

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Brian G
1:58 PM
Worcester

I have tried several TVs that were receiving the HD channels on 785.8MHz, none of which are now seeing a signal. What on earth is going on?

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

2:13 PM

Brian G: Can you please follow the BBC - Reception problems link and report the problem to the BBC via that method?

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Brian G
2:30 PM
Worcester

Hi Briantist

Thankyou for your tireless efforts to help myself and others here. I am pleased to report that Channel 60 (785.8MHz) is, as of 14:20, now on air from Malvern and I am getting a good signal.

I have wasted most of a day trying to get a signal that I am now pretty confident was not being transmitted. We desperately need _accurate_ real-time information on what each transmitter is doing. Do you know if this is available anywhere?




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Mike Dimmick
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2:48 PM

Brian G: At the link that Briantist provided, the BBC's Reception Problems page. If you're having a problem that isn't shown there, say 'No' to 'Does this answer your question?', click Continue, then keep going through the wizard until you get to the problem report form.

The BBC use a mixture of direct off-air monitoring, reports from a small group of viewers, and reports from the general public. The direct off-air monitoring is typically only at major transmitters.

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Pedro B
2:53 PM
Worcester

I fully endorse Brian G's comment. We need a reliable up to date information service on Tansmitter status. I have also wasted time trying to receive a faulty channel.

All the status services I could find were reporting no problems at Malvern. The BBC faq service on reception problems does not include HD serices in the drop down menu on "which channel(s) are affected.

While I agree that Briantist has been attentive to our problems, he did state unreservedly yeterday at 6.42pm "the transmitter is just fine" I assume he has the same problems as the rest of us with the inadequate information services.

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