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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) mast?
Brierley Hill transmitter - Brierley Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/09/2023 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
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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Sunday, 27 May 2018
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R John8:48 AM
Today 0800hrs 27 May 2018
What has happened to Yesterday, Talking pictures, 4 Seven etc. These are all channels on the ARQ B mux which after the spring frequency change were broadcast on CH37. Since early last week, after some night engineering work on several muxes, there has been no reception of ARQ B. Checking the signal condition for CH37 we see that the signal strength is present but reduced and the signal quality rating is neglegible. Some information as to what is going on would be appreciated.
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StevensOnln110:48 AM
R John: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? What signal strength and quality readings are you getting on the other multiplexes? Please provide a full postcode so that we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter and your predicted coverage etc.
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Monday, 28 May 2018
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Stuart 1:52 PM
Interesting that is is only the one MUX that you are having problems with.
I receive Brierley Hill and have checked and all my signals are fine on all MUX, although chaannel 37 seems slightly lower than the rest. For the following day after the overnight engineering work, some channels were pixilating but that now seems to have cured itself.
Certainly over the last few weeks when i have passed the transmitter, engineers can be seen working on it, about half way up on a series of panels that seem to go the whole way round the mast.
If you have no joy in restoring the signal to channel 37, would give the Freeview advice line a ring and explain to them the situation, especially the fact that this has only happened since the engineering work took place in the early hours of 23 May 2018.
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Saturday, 2 June 2018
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flowerpancakedetergent12:44 AM
How do we get this page updated or notify admin? The channel frequencies are now in band A #29-37 not #50-60.
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Monday, 5 November 2018
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John Dallow2:18 PM
Have been unable to get a signal for BBC 1-2-4 for 4 days from last Thursday (1/11/2018) Both the picture and sound completely fragmented . Today it has improved. Spent over 1.1/2 hrs on the telephone yesterday doing complete check on my equipment with my broadband supplier, my equipment was 100% ok so the problem obviously rested at your door. Although alright today it is still giving the odd breakdown in signal every few minutes
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Tuesday, 6 November 2018
MikeP
10:33 AM
10:33 AM
John Dallow:
Please provide a full posy code so that we can see the predicted reception at your location.
I presume you are talking about Freeview reception which is unrelated to the performance of your internet connection except when streaming using a 'smart' device. Freeview is broadcast over the air usin g UHF transmissions and it received by your aerial. So what equipment are you using?
Also check all your aerial connections to ensure the coaxial cables are in good condition and any coaxial plugs/sockets should be unplugged and then refitted to clear any possible corrosion/oxidation from the contacts.
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Thursday, 8 November 2018
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Dave Wood11:00 PM
Rowley Regis
John Dallow:
I have also had big problems with reception of all BBC and HD from Brierley Hill site.
Both my television and digital recorder show the same faults. Eventually after much realignment of the aerial, I have got the SD BBC channels back, but not the HD channels.
Although Channel group 32 (BBC A mux) showed a good signal the information seemed to be corrupt.
Channel group 35 (BBC B mux) now shows a good level of signal but the recievers both indicate the quality to be bad and no HD channels are recognised.
I am located at Rowley Regis and in line of site of Brierly Hill transmitter, however, I have found that Kidderminster is within a few degrees of Brierley Hill from my location and according to the digital uk coverage checker a "retune event" occoured on the 31st October. I can only assume that this has caused my problems.
The information I have is that both sites use the same Channels for the same programmes.
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 9 November 2018
MikeP
11:35 AM
11:35 AM
Dave Wood:
You are only 5km from the Kidderminster transmitter so it is possible that you m ay have too much signal. Please check what signal strengths are being shown on your TV set (it's usually in the manual tuning section but DO NOT RETUNE). It ideally needs to be between 60% and 85%, usually if it is more than that level you get severe problems.
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Dave Wood11:27 PM
Rowley Regis
MikeP: Hi Mike, my info. says 5K to Brierley Hill and 21K to Kidderminster.
I am sorry to say that I followed the official advise and have done auto and manual retunes on both recievers.
I appear to be getting "a clock full" on almost all channels. I can live without HD so I can get by for now.
I might try swinging the antenna further west to drop the levels a bit so that Kidderminster drops more onto the edge of the lobe so reducing the input relative to Brierley Hill.
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Saturday, 10 November 2018
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Stuart Harris10:23 AM
Just a reminder that Kidderminster is now an SFN with Brierley Hill.
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