Full Freeview on the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Storeton (Wirral, England) mast?
Storeton transmitter - Storeton transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Screen may go black 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton 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)
The Storeton (Wirral, 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 Storeton transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 51km east-northeast (74°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
| A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | W T | A K T | |||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C29 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | LL | LL | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C53tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | --BBCB | --BBCB |
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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2.8kW | |
| PSB1 wa≡, PSB2 wa≡, PSB3 wa≡ | (-1.5dB) 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 560W | |
| LL | (-16.7dB) 60W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 56W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Friday, 11 March 2011
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KMJ,Derby8:31 PM
Mike Dimmick: Storeton Wales is, as you mentioned horizontally polarised. It is intended as a "regional correction" transmitter for viewers living in the North Wales coastal area who would otherwise only be able to view English services from Winter Hill. The COM muxes are received direct from Winter Hill. A similar arrangement exists in Derby where a relay transmitter sited in Littleover transmits East Midlands BBC1 and ITV1 to viewers in the Allestree and Chaddesden areas who have to receive their tv signals from Sutton Coldfield. The line of site to S/C from the target area is similar to that to the Littleover relay which uses horizontal polarisation, enabling reception on aerials beamed on S/C.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
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Chris12:51 PM
this transmitter seems to be the reason why we get tuning problems with winter hill. Sorry but we don't want regional Welsh channels in England, especially foreign language
C Jones
Preston Lancashire
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
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Steve P5:51 PM
Incidentally, Chris bach, it is probably Meol-y-parc you get, not Storeton Wales - check the channels.
S4C is great - live rugby; cricket, lots of singing
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012
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Robert Lee3:13 PM
The above Welsh Freeview information implies that the 3 multiplexes on C57, C53 and C60 all put out the same programming. This is definitely NOT the case, as, for example, I receive HD programming on C60, ITV, etc on C53 and BBC1, etc on C53.
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Sunday, 26 February 2012
Robert Lee: Yes, I have to recode the site to make it show the different Welsh options as this is only one of two transmitters like this. Will sort soon.
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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
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Corin8:46 PM
The ERP for Storeton Wales multiplexes is stated as being 2 kW.
Is not this figure incorrect, and should only be 500 W?
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Corin: This is correct. Wales transmission are 2kW horizontal. Granada's are 560W vertical.
As the photographs of the mast shows, each Wales transmissions are directed towards Wales and similarly Granada's are in the opposite direction:
mb21 - The Transmission Gallery
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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Corin5:22 PM
Dave Lindsay:
What then is the source for this figure or 2 kW ERP?
Are you claiming that OfCon are incorrect on page 7 of their document at
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
which states an ERP of 500 W and that Digital UK are also incorrect on page 4 of their document at
http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
which also states an ERP of 500 W?
2 kW is high power and is the ERP of the main transmitter, Moel-y-Parc, not Storeton Wales.
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Corin5:40 PM
"2 kW is high power and is the ERP of the main transmitter, Moel-y-Parc, not Storeton Wales."
Correction -- ERP of Moel-y-Parc is 20 kW,
not 2 kW.
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