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.
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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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-midlands-today.jpg)
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-central.jpg)
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?
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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, 9 July 2016
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Norman9:37 PM
I have interference on free view channels for bbc1 etc only during last few days. Picture break up Post code b782lw Thank You.
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Sunday, 10 July 2016
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jb3812:06 AM
Norman: Your problem could be caused by two separate reasons.
(1) The fact of Sutton Coldfield having been listed on the engineering page since Monday 4th with the status of "possible weak signal".
(2) Problems related to a band of high atmospheric pressure which has been sweeping from West to East across Southern areas of the UK for the last day or so, this not really clearing away until around Monday lunchtime.
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Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
12:09 AM
12:09 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Tuesday, 23 August 2016
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Peter Dennis3:17 PM
I receive Freeview from Sutton Coldfield. I have just done the retune to return BBC4 to mux 35 from 40 where it was during the Olympics. They have retuned the channel to mux35 but it is listed after then retune as channel 790. channel 106 is still on mux 40 but is now of course dead! Is this a mistake or do I have to be patient a little longer & retune again?
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Peter Dennis3:52 PM
Addition to my last post. I have just done a complete retune from blank no program conditions. BBC 4 HD is now being broadcast from Sutton Coldfield on mux 35 & freeview channel 790. BIG MISTAKE ?
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Peter Dennis4:33 PM
Situation on my last 2 posts above has just been corrected in the last few minutes . Someone must have noticed!!
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jb386:47 PM
Peter Dennis: Yes, it certainly was an error, and one which was even made by / www.terrestrialtv.uk. / as they also had BBC4HD (106) listed as moving to COM8, this having now been corrected to COM7.
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Sunday, 4 September 2016
Transmitter engineering
8:31 PM
8:31 PM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Monday, 12 September 2016
Transmitter engineering
12:09 AM
12:09 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Transmitter engineering
12:09 AM
12:09 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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