Full Freeview on the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.355,-2.078 or 52°21'18"N 2°4'40"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 30,000 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 Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) mast?

Bromsgrove transmitter - Bromsgrove transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

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Which Freeview channels does the Bromsgrove 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C26 (514.0MHz)	200m	DTG-	400W
	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	C23 (490.0MHz)	200m	DTG-	400W
	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),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C30- (545.8MHz)	200m	DTG-	400W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C33+ (570.2MHz)	195m	DTG-8	400W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 35 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C36 (594.0MHz)	198m	DTG-8	400W
	Smithsonian Channel, 11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's Christmas, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C48 (690.0MHz)	198m	DTG-8	400W
	Quest Red +1, Classic Hits, 12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! christmas mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 83 Together TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 20 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, 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 Bromsgrove transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 18km northeast (41°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 18km northeast (40°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	7 Mar 2018
	A K T	A K T	A K T	K T	K T
C21	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C23				D3+4	D3+4
C24	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves
C26				BBCA	BBCA
C27	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C29				_local	_local
C30				-BBCB	BBCB
C31	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C33					SDN
C36					ArqA
C41				+SDN
C44				ArqA
C47				ArqB
C48					ArqB

_{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	2.8kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-8.5dB) 400W
Mux 1, Mux D	(-17.5dB) 50W
Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C	(-20.5dB) 25W

Local transmitter maps

Bromsgrove Freeview Bromsgrove DAB Bromsgrove TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bromsgrove transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Bromsgrove 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Marc Sterland
11:36 AM

Its signals are down. Pepper wood close b619nd.
Please let me know when they are up and working.
Mr sterland at aerials and satellites.

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MikeB

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3:17 PM

Marc Sterland: The website says their not - why do you think they are?

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Gemma
2:07 PM

Problems from affecting ITV 23. Affecting hundreds of people.

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Mark Cowmeadow
8:27 PM
Droitwich

This does not work as well as it did(no ITV3 of Drama and others, think its 44),since the M5 Highways England improvement works to convert to all lanes running commenced last year, it maybe coincidence but the erection of new gantries and signals over a 16 mile stretch of carriageway cant be helping the transmission with the M5 proximity to the transmitter structure. If however they are working on it why has it not been publicised

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StevensOnln1

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11:33 PM

Mark Cowmeadow: Motorway gantries aren't going to affect unless they are directly in line between your and the . It is far more likely that your aerial system has deteriorated rather than there being anything wrong with the transmitter. The last notification for transmitter was back in October so there hasn't been any work taking place since then.

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