Full Freeview on the Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) transmitter which serves 34,000 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 Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) mast?
Fenham transmitter - Fenham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Fenham 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Fenham transmitter?
BBC Look North (Newcastle) 1.6m homes 6.0%
from Newcastle NE99 2NE, 3km east-southeast (108°)
to BBC North East and Cumbria region - 70 masts.
ITV Tyne Tees News 1.4m homes 5.4%
from Gateshead NE11 9SZ, 2km south-southwest (206°)
to ITV Tyne Tees region - 47 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Border
How will the Fenham (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 13 Nov 2019 | |||||
| A K T | W T | W T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | |||||
| C22 | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C28 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C30 | _local | BBCB | |||||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
| C36 | _local | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | C5waves | C5waves |
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 12 Sep 12 and 26 Sep 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, com7, com8, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 40W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
Fenham Freeview Fenham DAB Fenham AM/FM Pontop Pike TV region BBC North East and Cumbria Tyne TeesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Pontop Pike transmitter area
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Tuesday, 26 April 2016
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Carl Kalland8:23 AM
Dave has dropped out today on channel 12 de ja but still available on channel 84
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Friday, 9 June 2017
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Deborah 1:55 PM
Your site currently states that there is no work on the Fenham transmitter, but on another site there are reported problems breaks in service & engineering works. All our free view channels are breaking up , but not our internet channels. Who is correct. I have tried all cables, switched off the box etc but still unwatchable & signal weak message. Please help p.s. Weather is fine not windy or stormy.
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StevensOnln14:56 PM
Deborah : Which website are you seeing these reports on? The transmitter engineering posts on this site are taken from a feed provided by BBC engineering. What signal strength and quality readings are you seeing?
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Sunday, 25 June 2017
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ANDY KUIPERS7:22 PM
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Hi, been having terrible problems with reception at NE13 9NT. Constant interference, channels not working at all(BBC1+BBC2 eg0. Blocks appear on the screen and freeze the picture, then the whole screen disappears and is black. Message of " wek signal" etc. Been going on for 6 weeks now all of a sudden. Have lived in this house since 2001 and never experienced any of this. CAN YOU HELP PLEASE.
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ANDY's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln18:04 PM
ANDY KUIPERS: Your only 6km away from the Fenham transmitter so start by checking behind your TV for any loose/damaged cables or connections. Although further away, Pontop Pike is also predicted to give a good signal at your location so it would be worth checking which you are using and that your TV is tuned to the correct transmitter. For Fenham, your aerial will be pointing roughly south with the little rods in the vertical position (pointing up and down) whereas for Pontop Pike it will be pointing more to the west of south with the little rods horizontal (pointing side to side).
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Monday, 18 December 2017
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Paul McDonnell3:43 PM
I'm having problem with my Panasonic PVRs (I have three). Certain channels won't record or pause, specifically on HD, 106-113, 115 and 205. Looking at your transmitter info for Fenham, Mux Com 7 looked to be the culprit, so I tested some of the SD channels, and had the same problem. On trying to pause live TV I get a message saying "No signal for operation". On trying to record, the recording never starts. This has been going on for a few weeks now. As far as I am aware, other channels not on Mux Com 7 are all fine.
On advice from Panasonic, I did a "dry" retune. It made no difference. I've lost count of how many times I've reset the unit. My postcode is NE82EE if needed.
Any suggestions what I should do about this?
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MikeB9:30 PM
Paul McDonnell: Have you checked the strength/quality of the various muxes?
The machine is telling you that its not getting enough of a signal, so you need to check if you are getting the correct transmitter. My old Sony PVR, which had, like Panasonics, a pretty sensitive tuner, would bring in other transmitters just enough to fool the PVR, but not enough to actually record anything.
If its locked into another transmitter, you can kill the signal a bit. or retune if it s just a one off.
The second possibility is that the transmitter is spot on, but your system is not. If your losing muxes, thats a classic sign of a system problem, perhaps via lose connections, dodgy cable, etc.
Since you have 3 Panasonics (I assume the 7/8 series), it sounds like the latter problem - so I'd start looking at the point where the signal splits.
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Monday, 13 May 2019
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Jim Robson10:06 AM
I live in Longbenton I have never had more than a small number of HD channels. I am sick of returning my set to try and get more .
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MikeP
10:16 AM
10:16 AM
Jim Robson:
Fenham deos transmitter all the possible multioplexes, including the COM7 and COM8 services which carry several HD channels. Check that you are actually tuned to the Fenham transmitter by putting your posy code and house number into the Digitla UK Coverage Checker at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…er/, selecting the Dey=tailed View option and pressing Go. Then scroll down to the listing for the Fenham transmitter, that will show you the current channel numbers to use for checking.
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Wednesday, 13 November 2019
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C. Hindle6:58 AM
No signal or weak signal now.. Sandyford area, newcastle
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