Full Freeview on the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter which serves 83,000 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 Brierley Hill (Dudley, 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 Brierley Hill (Dudley, 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 Brierley Hill 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 Brierley Hill (Dudley, 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 Brierley Hill transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km east (86°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km east (86°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | A K T | |||||
| C29 | LB | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | _local | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | |||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 | 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux B*, LB | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux C* | (-20dB) 100W | |
| Mux D* | (-21dB) 80W |
Local transmitter maps
Brierley Hill Freeview Sutton Coldfield TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Wednesday, 6 September 2017
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Stuart Haaris2:10 PM
It way be worth contacting someone regarding this, i know from another forum that Brierley Hill have had reception issues and complaints have been made regarding this. A period of off air a couple of weeks ago was for this to be inverstigated but I don't know whether the problem was solved. From what I have heard the reception problems were only in one direction from the transmitter.
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Thursday, 14 September 2017
Stuart Haaris: I have a good signal on all other tv channels except channel 7 - Made in Birmingham (Big Centre TV) I believe this is transmitted on channel 29) which pixelates occasionally but is better than it used to be. It is only the HD channels which i believe are transmitted on channel 53 that have disappeared since the august 3rd retune. Who would i contact to find out about this and the directional issue? What are the other forums you mentioned?
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Friday, 15 September 2017
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Stuart Harris1:00 PM
David, channel 7 is broadcast from a little side aerial at a much lower rate, 200W as opposed to the main MUXes which are broadcast at 2000W.
The other website was Digital Spy, I was asking about the engineering work going on at the transmitter concerning next years frequency changes. On the 22/08/17, Brierley Hill was off air between 10:40 and 11:59 and I asked was this shut down connected with this work, I received the following reply
"The Brierley Hill work today was unplanned - hence why the work wasn't listed as part of this weeks planned engineering works. This has nothing to do with 700MHz clearance though. It's been done so that they can investigate reports of poor reception in some areas served by the transmitter. PSB 1-3 and COM 4-6 were shut down for up to two hours but were left on air in the afternoon to avoid a loss of lunch time news bulletins."
Whether they corrected the problem I am unsure, being as it is BBCB MUX you are having problems with, would speak to the BBC about it,
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Monday, 18 September 2017
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David Mullett2:05 PM
Stuart Harris: Have you any idea what the contact email / website or telephone number is for the correct BBC department.?
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StevensOnln12:16 PM
David Mullett: Try the number listed on the BBC's reception advice pages - BBC - About us - Help Receiving TV and Radio
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Friday, 13 October 2017
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David Mullett4:36 PM
MikeB:
I have done all of the things to check my equipment, auto and manual retunes, bypassed my amplifier/splitter etc to no avail. I have since spoken to 3 of my neighbours and also my brother who lives about 0.5 miles away. We have all got the same problem and it started about the time work was being carried out on the transmitter and the August 3rd channel retune. We all have good tv pictures on the MUX channels 50, 55, 57, 59 & 60. But we have all lost the HD channels on BBC-B MUX channel 53. And we have also lost the programs transmitted on MUX channel 29 but to be fair the picture was good on this channel before. As Stuart Harris above reported he had heard on a forum other people in one direction from the transmitter were also reporting the same problems. I have just contacted the BBC to report this for the third time.
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Monday, 23 October 2017
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David Dunn3:31 PM
When will Amblecote transmit ch 96 Forces TV
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Wednesday, 25 October 2017
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Stuart Harris3:38 PM
Daly it's broadcast on COM8 which relay transmitters don't carry, so unfortunately no chance.
You could try Sutton Coldfield, try a manual tune on channel 35.
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Wednesday, 15 November 2017
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