Full Freeview on the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 38,000 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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) mast?
Lark Stoke transmitter - Lark Stoke transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, 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 Lark Stoke 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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, 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 Lark Stoke transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 45km north-northwest (345°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 46km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | |||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C41 | +SDN | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 6.3kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 1.26kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-24dB) 25W |
Local transmitter maps
Lark Stoke Freeview Lark Stoke AM/FM Lark Stoke TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Lark Stoke transmitter area
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Syd Wall: There's more about that date and what changes on Switchover events September- December 2011 | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Thursday, 22 September 2011
Syd Wall: 28th September 2011 - see Switchover events September- December 2011 | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Thursday, 20 October 2011
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Andy Butcher8:58 PM
Moreton-in-marsh
I live in Blockley, south of Lark Stoke and we have always got TV from Lark Stoke. After switchover in April we had almost all Freeview channels, but since 28 Sep we have lost about 20 inc, ITV3, CITV,5*, 5USA.
This doesn't seem to be progress. Why would the service get worse? Andy
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Friday, 21 October 2011
Thursday, 28 June 2012
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Syd Wall7:46 AM
Shipston-on-stour
Hi - this morning (28th June 2012) I've started receiving a message telling me to retune. I can't find anything on UKFREE to say that a retune is due. Any ideas?
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Syd Wall: There were some retunes caused by changes made at a number of transmitter sites in the early hours of yesterday morning, but these were further east and affected some of Anglia and South East areas.
If you can get the message to go away (by pressing "OK" or similar), then you can probably ignore it.
I wonder if your receiver has, in addition to your native transmitter, found and stored signals from Sandy Heath which is an Anglia transmitter. Of the Anglia region, it was the Sudbury transmitter that was affected by the retune (not Sandy Heath). I wonder if the message you are seeing is one which was broadcast over the air from all Anglia transmitters, simply because it is not possible to have the message broadcast only from Sudbury (because perhaps they all have to carry the same message, as it were).
I'm not too familiar with how these things work; just a technical bod giving you my thoughts of what I would see as a possibility. If it continues, then you will have to look at a solution. The worst case solution is obviously to carry out a full retune, but I wouldn't do it at this stage. If it does continue, something to try before doing a full retune might be to add new services (or similar) if your receiver has such a function.
As I say, these are possibilities if the message doesn't go away. But what I can say for certain is that there were definately no changes to Lark Stone and Sutton Coldfield transmitters that would require a retune.
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Syd Wall8:26 PM
Shipston-on-stour
Syd Wall: Thanks Dave..I'm away for a few days now but would be surprised if we were able to get broadcasts from the Anglia region. I'll check that local BBC news is still Midlands when I get back.
But thanks for confirmation that there are no changes at Lark Stoke & Sutton C.
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Saturday, 20 October 2012
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Mike Lavender10:46 AM
Shipston-on-stour
My postcode is CV37 9JN
I get a zero signal strength on channel 30 from Lark Stoke whereas I get a good signal on the other 5 channels.
Is it working?
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Mike Lavender: UHF channel 30 (PSB3) from Lark Stone carries HD services and operates in DVB-T2 mode whereas the others carry standard definition services and use DVB-T mode.
The most reason for no signal being shown when tuning to PSB3/HD mux is because the tuner only works with standard definition (DVB-T) signals.
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