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Freeview Light on the Halesowen (Dudley, England) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Halesowen (Dudley, England) transmitter which serves 2,700 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 Halesowen (Dudley, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Halesowen 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)165mDTG-3W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 19 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)165mDTG-3W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C28 (530.0MHz)165mDTG-3W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Halesowen (Dudley, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Halesowen transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 10km east-northeast (67°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 10km east-northeast (66°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Halesowen (Dudley, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-1727 Feb 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TA K T
C22BBCA
C25D3+4
C28BBCB
C49tv_off D3+4D3+4
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCABBCABBCA
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 12W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-6.8dB) 2.5W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Halesowen was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Sunday, 1 May 2011
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Steve
8:26 AM
Halesowen

Missing channels - Halesowen

I now have great Freeview and Freeview HD from PSB1, PSB2, PSB3 from the Halesowen transmitter but do not get any channels from COM4, COM5 or COM6.

Am I right in assuming that the missing channels will be available using my existing aerial after 28th September 2011 ? I read this date from a posting on this website.

Great informative website by the way !

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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:03 AM

Steve: This is a public service (or Freeview Lite) transmitter, and will only ever carry the services listed above.

You can move your aerial to point at Sutton Coldfield to receive all the services, should you want them.

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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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eric beasley
10:28 AM
Halesowen

since the switch over i have not been able to receive BBC 2 and still cant after re tuning.

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Thursday, 22 September 2011
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eric beasley
2:14 PM
Halesowen

i have a new outside arial only fitted 2 months ago. my television has freeview and HD included. its only BBC 2 I cannot recieve.

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

2:41 PM

eric beasley : and you have done as I suggested?

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Monday, 4 February 2013
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Nick
9:35 PM

ARQB transmission is terrible in Halesowen B62 area. All the channels broadcast on channel 39 keep stopping. Signal strength is 10 and quality gets up to max 36.
TV finds the channels but on very weak signal. Channels are 4film, 4music etc..

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Monday, 9 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

5:21 PM

HALESOWEN transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 9 Dec 14:03 until 9 Dec 15:13. . [BBC]

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