Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter which serves 2,690,000 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 Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-2 16QAM 2K 3/4 18.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Winter Hill 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 | C32 (562.0MHz) | 726m | DTG- | 100,000W |
 1 BBC One (SD) North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | H max | C34 (578.0MHz) | 726m | DTG- | 100,000W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | H max | C35- (585.8MHz) | 726m | DTG- | 100,000W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
| COM4 SDN | H max | C29 (538.0MHz) | 726m | DTG-8 | 100,000W |
 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 max | C31 (554.0MHz) | 726m | DTG-8 | 100,000W |
 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 max | C37 (602.0MHz) | 726m | DTG-8 | 100,000W |
 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 | |||||
| LM | H -20dB | C40 (626.0MHz) | 572m | DTG-12 | 1,000W |
 from 1st October 2014: 7 That's Manchester, | |||||
| LL | H -17dB | C24 (498.0MHz) | 572m | DTG-12 | 2,000W |
 from 30th June 2014: 7 Bay TV Liverpool, | |||||
| LPR | H -20dB | C56 (754.0MHz) | 572m | DTG-12 | 1,000W |
 from 1st October 2014: 7 That's Lancashire, | |||||
| GIM | H -20dB | C57 (762.0MHz) | 572m | DTG-2 | 1,000W |
 Now 90s, Spotlight TV, Clubland TV, Country Music Entertainment , Classic Hits MCR, 77 That's 60s MCR, 78 TCC, 80 That's 80s, 86 That's 90s MCR, 88 TV Warehouse+1, | |||||
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-2 16QAM 2K 3/4 18.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Winter Hill transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 22km southeast (140°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 22km southeast (139°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 20 Feb 2020 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C12 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C24 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C40 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C54tv_off | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | ||
| C56tv_off | _local | _local | _local | LPR | |||||
| C57tv_off | GIM | GIM | GIM | GIM | |||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C61 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-12.9dB) 25.7kW | |
| com8 | (-13.4dB) 22.6kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-16dB) 12.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| LL | (-24dB) 2kW | |
| GIM, LM, LPR | (-27dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
Winter Hill Freeview Winter Hill DAB Winter Hill AM/FM Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Monday, 15 April 2013
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eddie5:08 PM
ok the best ive got so far.....
unplugged ariel from tv ...did auto tune ...put ariel back in did auto tune again...by the way this is with the box with the dvd player and hard drive switched off.
Then moved onto the box ...again unplugged ariel from box ...did auto tune ..then plugged ariel back into box and did auto tune...
BBC back at last dont know how long for ,at least i can record stuff at moment and set hard drive to record progs later on in the week
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Mazbar5:37 PM
Tom Linson: sorry if you have taken it the wrong way what I meant is sometimes you need help if you have a problem that you find hard to solve. Lots of people have done the retune ok some tv's are easier than others on this site people post who have problems if you have followed all the good advice offered by dave Lindsay and jb38 you might need to call someone out. Winter hill covers about 5000000 people if there was a problem with the transmitter trust me this site would be swamped. Once again sorry if I offended you.
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jb386:30 PM
Tony Jaques: What I was really getting at albeit not said in so many words, was that the only thing that changed on that date apart from the muxes operating frequency was the fact of you having carried out a retune, an action notorious for having an adverse effect in many of these boxes and all being related to software issues, an issue which was never really resolved, and why the policy usually adopted by retailers such as Argos or Aldi was to either change the box for another brand or give a refund on the purchase price, although in the case of the former they were offering an updated (or so called anyway) model of the same brand.
That said, the other problem of dropping channels is mostly (but not completely) connected to the tuners fitted in these boxes having a low memory capacity, this being the reason for the advice with regards to manually tuning in the mux channels required followed by deleting all the unwanted ones as this in most cases usually rectified the problem, of course with the channel deleting exercise having to be carried out "before" the box was switched off.
Just purely out of curiosity, what software number is your box using? as anything later than 1.8 or 1.9 was known to introduce further problems to those already in existence, and indeed was the reason for the advice given to many to backtrack on their software.
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michael byrd7:08 PM
Salford
Thanks for the info Dave Lindsay
il tell my flat tv engineer to sort the problem out once again thanks for the great info cheers mate!
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Ray7:28 PM
I retuned my Panasonic tx-l32et5b on 11th April. All seemed to go well but I've lost my freeview hd channels.
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jb389:36 PM
Ray: Its not really possible to give any advice on this without having knowledge of your location, e.g: a post code or one from nearby such as a post office etc, but you should try carrying out another auto-tune but stopping it immediately after it starts, as that will have wiped out anything stored in the memory, then once you have verified that the epg (programme guide) does NOT appear just carry out a normal auto-tune.
Should you have any problems with carrying out the aforementioned procedure, then first of all carry out an auto-tune but with the aerial removed, then when completed and the "no channels" message comes on, reconnect the aerial and carry out a final normal auto-tune.
If the problem remains, then a post code will be required to enable the details of the transmitter that covers you area to be checked out.
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Clamar11:23 PM
Sk9 Area
retuned my tv twice
bt vision updated its freezing and pixlating now my samsung tv keeps turning itself off and on
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
To all the above who have failed to leave their full postcodes or a nearby location as such.How could we on here be of any valuable assistance to you,if you dont want our help to assist you as such !
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I live in the North West, postcode WA6 7JY, and have re-tuned both of my TVs a number of times and I still have no BBC channels also I've done a factory reset and used a signal booster, to no avail.
Last night, following instructions from Digital UK, I manually re-tuned and channel 50 which is the 706 Frequency just says 'no signal'.
Can anybody help at all? I find it hard to believe that its my TV that is the problem, as I have 2 TVs, one is an LG and the other is an Eye TV digital receiver, plugged into my iMac, and both have had exactly the same problem, since 10th April.
Any help would be so much appreciated!!
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cake10:39 AM
Rochdale
My channel 50 says no signal as well on two LG TVs when I try the manual retune. Postcode is OL11 5HL. At best I can get 63 channels and 12 radio channels. No BBC whatsoever.
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