Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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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 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
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 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.
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 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
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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 |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 13 June 2019
MikeP
10:06 PM
10:06 PM
David Corbett:
Thgousands of people around your area have no problems with the signal from the Wrekin transmitter. I suggest you check all your aerial cables and connections. Unplug all the coaxial plugs/sockets and then refit them.
Also check that you have a suitable wideband aerial.
Plus you are rathger close to the transmitter at a distance of only 3 km. That suggests you may actually have too much signal and that will cause all sorts of problems, including those you report. So check the reported signal strengths, ideally they should be between 60% and 85% (no more and no less), then search this website to 'Too much of a good thing...' and follow that advice.
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Thursday, 4 July 2019
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AlexB1:18 PM
Bridgnorth
I have recently moved house to SY2 6JF and have my aerial pointing at the Wrekin transmitter. My old house at WV16 6TW also pointed at the Wrekin transmitter. My old house used to get Channel 4+1 HD and all the others perfectly fine.
I have pointed our Aerial to the same transmitter and re-tuned our TV in our new property it does pick up Channel4+1 as an option on our TV's guide but then when you select the channel is says no signal?
I don't understand why we could get it at our last property and we where much further away but can't get it now and we're much closer? I installed both Aerials myself so I know they where both definitely pointing at the Wrekin.
Surely if there wasn't any signal for Channel4+1 HD our TV would remove the channel? Even upon a retune the channel remains as does all the other channels in COM7 but the TV shows no signal what's all that about?
Any help would be most appreciated :)
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AlexB's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln14:14 PM
AlexB: Channel 4 +1 HD is on the COM7 multiplex which has never been broadcast from The Wrekin. You must have been picking it up from another transmitter at your old house (probably Sutton Coldfield going by the Digital UK checker).
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Thursday, 18 July 2019
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MikeG12:44 PM
Bridgnorth
We have lost channels 48 and 61 (True Entertainment) from the Wrekin since the changeover in June. This is weird as channels on the same frequency are received okay. I have tried manual channel installations but no success. At first I thought this might be a problem with the signal, but have come up with exactly the same problem at another location. Both addresses are in Bridgnorth; WV16 4DW and WV16 4JB.
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MikeG's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE1:43 PM
MikeG:
Those programmes have now moved to local mixed. See the many poEsts on the True Entertainment pages on this site for details.
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Monday, 19 August 2019
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Chelsea4:19 PM
Hi there can you please tell me why have you taken true movies off the freeview please and how come I cant get it back on thanks please get back to me
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StevensOnln14:32 PM
Chelsea: True Movies and True Entertianment were moved to the local TV multiplex by Sony (who own the True channels) and are now only available in areas where there is a local TV station on Freeview channel 7 or 8. This has nothing to do with this website, which exists to provide technical help with TV & radio reception problems and has no connection with any broadcaster.
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Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Tony7:53 PM
We all pay the same licence fee but the Wrekin transmitter is the poor relative. Why can't we get channel 50?
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Chris.SE9:32 PM
Tony:
See the 3 or 4 posts before yours. As has been mentioned it's a commercial decision by Sony and has nothing to do with the licence. There are no Local multiplexes broadcast from The Wrekin (nor from many other main transmitters, they tend to be concentrated on larger urban areas.)
In particular see True Entertainment | free and easy Complain to Sony and see what they say.
Although there have been some further changes since those in the links in that post see Help | Freeview
Also see Channel listings | Freeview for which channels are broadcast on which multiplexes.
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Sunday, 3 May 2020
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Richard8:30 PM
Transmitter engineering: Really weak signal on channel 26 and 30. Have you lost the power output on these channels from the TELFORD and Wrekin transmitter?
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