Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?

The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the The Wrekin 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C26 (514.0MHz)	455m	DTG-	20,000W
	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	H max	C23 (490.0MHz)	455m	DTG-	20,000W
	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	H max	C30- (545.8MHz)	455m	DTG-	20,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C41+ (634.2MHz)	455m	DTG-8	10,000W
	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	H -3dB	C44 (658.0MHz)	455m	DTG-8	10,000W
	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	H -3dB	C47 (682.0MHz)	455m	DTG-8	10,000W
	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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	27 Feb 2018
	A K T	A K T	A K T	W T	K T
C23	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C26	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C29	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C30				-BBCB	BBCB
C33	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C35		C5_waves	C5_waves
C41				+SDN	SDN
C44				ArqA	ArqA
C47				ArqB	ArqB
C48				_local	_local
C51_{tv_off}				_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 1-5	100kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 20kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB	(-10dB) 10kW
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B	(-17dB) 2kW
Mux C, Mux D	(-20dB) 1000W

Local transmitter maps

The Wrekin Freeview The Wrekin DAB The Wrekin AM/FM The Wrekin TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. The Wrekin 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

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Mike Dimmick

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5:49 PM

JORDAN: ArqB's capacity increase should have occurred on 21 November last year. If your box handled that, it should handle the upcoming changes to SDN and ArqA. Those are scheduled for 1 May, next Tuesday.

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JORDAN

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12:13 AM
Wolverhampton

mike dimmick: i thought that the 3 muxes change capacity on 1st may

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JORDAN

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12:14 AM
Wolverhampton

DAVE LINDSAY: won't need to do a retune :)

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Dave
10:24 PM
Oswestry

hi, yesterday night i did a random retune and managed to pick up ArqA again with 50% , now tonight its 0 with showing 10 bit level error.

any advice or reason why? thanks

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leslierainer

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9:51 AM
Skegness

Dave: it dont always work properly but u can keep trying

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nicholas greenwood
3:24 PM

i live in oswestry shropshire and i can only
get 31 channals way is that

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nicholas greenwood
3:26 PM

i live in oswestry shropshire but i am only
getting 31 way is that

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Mark Fletcher

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5:53 PM
Halifax

Nicholas Greenwood.Unless you leave a full postcode or a nearby location as such,we cannot be of valuable assistance to you !

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Stephen P

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6:01 PM

ng - no idea unless you give your postcode and say what you are using and if it worked ok previously.

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Dave Lindsay

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6:23 PM

nicholas greenwood: Which are you missing and which can you get?

See under the heading "After configuration" on this page (you may have to press F5 to refresh to see the graphic):

Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

Which groups are you missing? Has it been like this since switchover last April?

Is is the three Commercial ones which are SDN, ArqA and ArqB?

Roughly how old is your ?

Did you get any channels before switchover, and if so, which ones (refer to "Before switchover configuration" and identify which rows you didn't get and which you did)?

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