Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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 Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?
Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sutton Coldfield 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
| Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
| Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C48 | _local | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
| com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
| LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Saturday, 31 October 2015
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John10:42 PM
Malvern
Is anyone else reporting issues with the Sutton Coldfield Tx? We are at WR 14 4NA and usually get a good signal on all channels but now have nothing showing on PSB3 or LB multiplexes. TV and radio channels on other frequencies seem good. No engineering work seems to be reported but something has changed since earlier today. (Annoyingly just after the Rugbymatch started!)
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Monday, 2 November 2015
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P Clark10:34 PM
We are in a good reception area CV 130ND but we keep losing reception no picture or sound only the message no signal or weak reception
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Tuesday, 3 November 2015
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MikeP12:20 PM
Trowbridge
It has been suggested that the recent warm days have given rise to atmospheric conditions that can disrupt TV reception. As there are many similar reports from around the southern part of England, that would seem to be quite likely. Do NOT retune your TV set under such situation.
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Sunday, 22 November 2015
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Stewart5:29 PM
why is channel 82 not transmitted from Sutton Coldfield (one of the largest transmitters)
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Monday, 23 November 2015
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MikeP3:42 PM
Trowbridge
Stewart:
LCN (logical channel number) 82 was Sky News but is being changed over to be True Christmas, see
True Christmas | Freeview There is a link provided on that page to check coverage in your area. Not all tranmitters will carry the service, they say only 'major towns and cities' will get it.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2015
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peter dennis3:59 PM
Coventry
hello FREEVIEW help desk
We live in Kenilworth cv8 1ap and have a roof aerial and a booster [I think some years ago for channel 5]
We have a 2yrs old humaxFreeview digital recorder HDR-FOXT2 - we have tried a RESET and manually setting the channels as per HUMAX intructions'
Generally this cures ALL but as of now we are not receiving any BBC channels as the signal was too low to download
The 3yr old LED HD TV has been working fine for several years but in the last 6 months or so there has been severe pixalating ; however this is some times the BBS channels/ sometime the ITV channels and sometime NO SIGNAL for the remaining channels
I read on your UKFREE TV transmitter SUTTON COLDFIELD WEBSITE that we should do a reset/update
CAN YOU HELP PLEASE
PETER
0926854972
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Wednesday, 25 November 2015
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MikeP2:51 PM
Trowbridge
Peter Dennis:
This website offers assistance with reception problems, but it is not the Freeview Help service. That can be found at
Further support | Freeview I suspect many of the regular contributors to this independent website may well have some ideas about your problem.
According to the dta given via the 'digitaluk trade' link you are just 1 km from the Kenilworth transmitter and 33 km from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. At those distances it is probable that you do not need a booster and that could be the cause of your problems, try using it without the booster in circuit by replacing it with a simple 'straight through' coupler. Also check which transmitter you are actually tune into by checking the channel numbers of the multiplexes being received - it is possible that it has picked up the wrong transmitter, Sutton Coldfield being at 328 degrees and Kenilworth at 90 degrees. You can check where your aerial is pointing with the aid of a compass.
Let us know the results of these checks and if needed we may have more ideas to offer.
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Sunday, 3 January 2016
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hayley rogers9:12 AM
Nuneaton
Is there any issues with the Sutton coalfield transmitter as I have
completely lost all signal my post code is cv10 8bb please could you let me know thanks hayley rogers.
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Thursday, 14 January 2016
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Angela Hall8:52 AM
Coventry
CV4 7EJ
Transmitter engineering: on about Monday reception on on free view became sporadic. We have no new electrical devices in the house to cause interference and all 3 televisions are affected but to varying severity. The worst affected tv makes even watching Bbc 1 difficult with constant sticking/juddering. Our main TV and the other in our sons bedroom are OK for the main 5 channels but channels like Dave ja vu and Spike and a few others are pixelating severely and have become totally unwatchable. I tried to retune but it makes little difference. The problems all started at the same time on all TVs so is it something we can fix or is it there a problem with the transmitter (I think we are connected to the Sutton Coldfield transmitter). We have an aerial on the roof and appears undamaged and still facing the usual way.
Angela
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jb3811:54 PM
Angela Hall: Sutton Coldfield is listed on the engineering page under the status of "possible weak signal", therefore its most inadvisable to carry out a retune on any of your Freeview devices whilst the station is operating in this state as programme channels already stored might be lost, as the level required to store a channel is generally higher than that required to view it if already stored, a peculiarity of digital reception.
As far as some of your devices receiving OK and others not is concerned, Freeview receivers vary in sensitivity between different brands / models etc, and so I wouldn't place to much importance to this "if" said devices are all fed from a powered distribution amplifier.
Needless to say, the problem will be rectified in due course on completion of the engineering work being carried out.
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