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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Storeton (Wirral, England) transmitter._______
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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Thursday, 19 September 2013
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jb389:35 PM
Maggie: I suspected that this might be the case, the problem with your same room aerial being that the signal from Winter Hill is being received from the right hand side of your location, i.e: from where Arnside Road joins the main B5143 meaning that the properties directly on your the right are blocking the signal.
This being the case, then about only one thing that you could try is to once again carry out the manual tune signal test exactly as before entering BBC mux on Ch50 then whilst observing the strength / quality and move the aerial around to try and get a position where the quality exceeds the strength, because as it presently stands its the reverse of what is required.
If you do manage to obtain a good position then scan the channel storing the results, once completed then use exactly the same procedure except this time enter Ch59 (ITV1) scanning same and likewise storing the results.
These are really the main channels that will provide you with the regional news services you require, the other muxes not being and are : Ch58 (ITV3) - Ch49 (Pick TV etc) - Ch55 (4 Music etc) and picked up by using the same manual tuning procedure as before, unless that is your TV offers an update channel list facility, but caution! on some sets this facility acts like an auto-tune whereby possibly replacing the BBC and ITV mux you have already stored with the Welsh channels from Moel-Y-Parc transmitter.
If though those measures are not successful then unfortunately you do not really have any option but to have an outside (or loft) aerial installed.
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Sunday, 1 December 2013
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TONY9:07 PM
live on the Wirral; storeton transmitter gone off on all itv channels says no signal .went of 8,30
what's going on?PLEASE
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JohnD9:17 PM
TONY: Our Youview box is in for repair and we have no HD.
Granada ITV SD went off air for the last quarter of XFactor. Fortunately in West Wirral can get ITV Wales, so we saw the final sing off and Gary chickening out.
As I write, Granada SD is back on air.
What happened, Granada?
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Friday, 14 March 2014
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Michael Plevin2:53 AM
Will Bay TV on this be broadcast directionally towards Liverpool? I am to the west of Storeton and wouldn't mind picking this up when it starts?
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Saturday, 15 March 2014
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Jim3:29 AM
Michael Plevin:
To give you some idea of the coverage of Bay tv from the Storeton transmitter, click on the 'LL' box shown on the map above. You will see that it is quite a limited area directed towards L'pool itself.
Try a manual retune on channel 30 and if you can receive 'BonanzaBonanza' on EPG 64, then you should be able to receive Bay tv when it starts.
You could also look at the page for Winter Hill and click the 'LLH' box on the map; that will show the approx. coverage for Bay tv from that mast.
Again, do a manual retune of channel 56 to see if you can receive anything there. You never know!
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Monday, 30 June 2014
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Corin12:10 PM
Bay TV will NOT be available from June 30th, 2014.
The on-air launch is delayed until the Fall of 2014.
Hyperlocal channels sign sales deal but Bay TV delays launch - Prolific North
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The reason for the delayed launch of Bay TV Liverpool is due to a relay transmitter in Wirral, which won't be operational until August.
It's taken a little longer than we had hoped, said Johnson.
It means we have had to revise our plans and we are now working towards a launch in October, depending on the speed with which the Storeton relay can be commissioned and we can get through testing our equipment.
UNQUOTE
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014
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Bill Parsons7:30 PM
I live in South Liverpool and my main transmitter is Storeton, I also pull in Moel-Y-Parc.
My local BBC1 HD is for the North West but when it goes to local news the HD channel tells you to retune to the SD channel version to watch while the HD plays music and puts up an information screen.
When you go to the SD channel the TV automatically brings up a notice that an HD version is available and do I want to go to it.
Is it not possible for the HD channel to show the local news even if it is in SD.
It is being broadcast from a North West transmitter so why not put the North West news on it.
It becomes very annoying to have to keep changing channels.
BillyBits
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Dave Lindsay
7:34 PM
7:34 PM
Bill Parsons: Yes, it is possible, but would mean that the cost of regional news would be even higher than it is now.
At the present time there is only one BBC One HD feed and to have one for each SD region would mean duplication of the equipment that produces the multiplex stream, and this would be required even if regional news were in SD. There is only about one hour of regional news on weekdays so the additional accounted "cost per minute" for the equipment would be very high!
I don't think it's a responsible use of Licence Fee payers' money.
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Thursday, 31 July 2014
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Roger Lane9:26 PM
Holywell
Why is there frequent loss of signal at Holywell Community Hospital, CH8 7TZ?
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Roger's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 4 September 2014
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Corin1:41 PM
Following the re-tune yesterday afternoon, Bay TV appeared on the EPG, being transmitted on the "Local" multiplex on UHF channel 30 at 546 MHz from the Storeton transmitter.
It is currently broadcasting a continuous test loop of scenes of everyday life from Liverpool.
Please update the start date to "Fall 2014" (not June 30th, 2014) and correct the typographical error for the transmission mode of the local multiplex QPSK", not "QSPK".
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