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, 7 July 2021
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Paul6:21 PM
Hi still getting intermittent problems since June after a period that was ok. Do you know if engineering works are still going on please
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Saturday, 10 July 2021
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Paul4:21 PM
Paul: just as an update, without me doing anything (apart from only watching SD channels since) the HD channels have Returned and I've been working perfectly since so I suspect they have been messing about with the transmitter and just not telling anybody
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Thursday, 15 July 2021
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Chris.SE6:02 AM
Paul:
If your reception is back to normal then it's quite possible there was unlisted engineering, sometimes the lists aren't 100% accurate. The other possibility could have been weather conditions causing interference from other transmitters. If problems reoccur, post back with some more detail including a full postcode so we can look at predicted reception in your locale.
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Tuesday, 3 August 2021
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Paul Robinson12:05 PM
Thank for the info. I'm having pixilation issues. Wish they'd hurry up and sort this transmitter out
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Chris.SE11:12 PM
Paul Robinson:
Hmm, either they have had some significant problems or there's a possibility (all my guesswork) that it's because of quite a few changes needed that'll result in the BBC HD channels (& maybe ITV) being regionalised by the end of 2022 (as announced by the BBC a while ago). I've no idea exactly what work is needed at transmitters (I know there's got to be some major equipment changes), I'll have to try and find out.
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Wednesday, 4 August 2021
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StevensOnln19:50 AM
Chris.SE: Most of the changes for PSB3 regionalisation will be at the coding and muxing centre where an additional set of coders will be setup for each new region, rather than any major changes at the transmitters, so the work taking place at Brierly Hill is extremely unlikely to be anything to do with regionalisation. Viewers might need to retune on the day the change takes place, but that should be publicised in advance.
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Chris.SE2:27 PM
StevensOnln1:
Whilst I realise that's obviously the case, at present there are at least two separate lots of feeds to the transmitters and that is obviously costly. What we don't know is what changes are needed to rationalise all that and it could vary from transmitter to transmitter depending on what was installed (or even already there) at DSO. (Freeview Light transmitters could be a different kettle of fish as well depending on how they are fed, not all are off-air from the main transmitter).
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Sunday, 8 August 2021
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Chris.SE12:10 AM
Chris.SE:
If I'm not mistaken that "update" is actually going to become part of next week's list (although it carries the last week's date atm). I've seen these changes several times now in recent months, totally confusing for the uninitiated!
What they are actually doing at Brierley Hill is anyone's' guess.
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Monday, 16 August 2021
Well, i realised I've probably jinxed it now, but the strength on the signal has increased today by 10-11% so same as the SD channels, and the picture is now stable.
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