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.
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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)
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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-midlands-today.jpg)
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km east (86°)
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 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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Monday, 26 February 2018
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Stuart2:50 PM
Take 2, I would try and record from CBS Drama now, its been mentioned on another website that CBS Drama had EPG problems over the last week, without EPG data, I doubt if your box would record.
From what I read the fault is now cleared.
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Monday, 5 March 2018
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Paul Brookes9:43 AM
Thank you to Stuart for the info on CBS drama EPG faults. Things are fine now. Now, can anyone tell me why, having retuned my box last Thursday, I now have to do it again, according to info on the TV, on Wednesday of this week?
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StevensOnln110:37 AM
Paul Brookes: According to Digital UK there are frequency changes taking place at the Brierley Hill transmitter on 7th March which will see all multiplexes except COM6 move to new frequencies.
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Paul Brookes4:33 PM
Thanks, Stevens. Still seems a bit crazy to have to retune twice in 6 days. I thought digital was going to "solve all"
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StevensOnln14:58 PM
Paul Brookes: Frequency changes have nothing to do with being digital. It is down to the dates set by the frequency planners for changes to take place, which have to be co-ordinated across the entire transmitter network as well as with the availability of enough engineers to make the required changes at each transmitter.
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Tuesday, 6 March 2018
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Stuart12:40 PM
I think also the double retune stems back to the DSO switchover.
If you remember, the BBC2 analogue signal was turned off before the rest of the other signals.
To me the current double retune, one week after the other has two reasons, firstly it warns people that something is going to happen and they need to make sure they know how to retune there boxes / tv, secondly when the other MUX's change frequency tomorrow morning, people have an idea when the transmitter is switched back on and it is safe to retune.
It will be interesting to see how much disruption is caused by this, many people shouldn't need a new aerial as a good c/d aerial should work on the new Brierley Hill frequencies, but communal aerials or older aerials may suffer a little more.
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Wednesday, 7 March 2018
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BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today. [BBC]
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7:29 AM
BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today to 02:29 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today to 03:04 today. [BBC]
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Mine still off air. Do I wait for it to come back or do a retune please?
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Stuart10:57 AM
You need to do a retune, all services are back on line now.
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