Full Freeview on the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, England) transmitter which serves 130,000 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 Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Fenton 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 Fenton transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 61km south-southeast (164°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 61km south-southeast (164°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, 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 | A K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C22 | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 1-5 | 10kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| com7, com8 | (-18.5dB) 140W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-20dB) 100W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-23dB) 50W |
Local transmitter maps
Fenton 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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Saturday, 28 April 2018
MikeP
12:38 PM
12:38 PM
Dan T:
Highly unlikely as COM 7 and COM 8 are temporary service transmissions. Sometime in the next few years when all transmissions use the DVB-T2 encoding they will be removed as the newer HD system can carry more channels.
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Sunday, 29 April 2018
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Harry Hackney 11:50 PM
I used to be able to watch all Freeview channels off Fenton transmitter I've had a brand new Ariel fitted on the roof retuned several times to no avail keeps showing on tv screen no signal or channel not available
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Monday, 30 April 2018
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MikeB9:30 AM
Harry Hackney : check all the connections. If you are not getting a signal, then either the connections are at fault or there is a problem with the installation with the new aerial. Or you tv has tuned into the entirely wrong transmitter, but that's surprising.
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Tuesday, 1 May 2018
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Dan T8:22 AM
@MikeP
Hmm, mildly annoying - though I'd never even look at most of the channels in those muxes, with the occasional programme missed available through catch-up. I imagine people paying for the BT channel will be more annoyed.
Broadcasting at such low power, barely receivable from more than a couple of miles away, seems like a token effort - "yep, we're carrying those channels!" - to appease broadcasters and advertisers.
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MikeB11:16 AM
Dan T: Those muss are temp ones, but there is no way that you should be getting such low power from such a short distance away. Check your system as well - a main transmitter from 4.5km away should be often, if anything, far too powerful.
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Sunday, 27 May 2018
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Dan T9:02 PM
MikeB: Apologies for the very late reply.
This is what tvheadend reports for me right now (Sunday 27th May, 20:50, a bit stormy outside).
For the ones that are ok for me - they have no issues at all, even the 'data heavy' ones eg Channel 4 HD being around 2.5GiB/hour (1080p + AC3).
These work ok:
474.2MHz
67% signal strength
24.1 db
482.2MHz
62% signal strength
23.1 dB SNR
498MHz
67% signal strength
25.2 dB SNR
506MHz
65% signal strength
24.6 db SNR
522MHz
71% signal strength
30 dB SNR
530MHz
68% signal strength
27.6 dB SNR
The two muxes I can't pick up:
746MHz
58% signal strength
17.9 dB SNR
754MHz
56% signal strength
15.2 dB SNR
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Dan T9:42 PM
Mike B: Argh... I accidentally had the low noise amplifier turned on for both tuners! The strong signal overcame this before, and was only an issue until those two new muxes being broadcast at only 140w.
A TV or regular STB would probably toggle that automatically as required. The problems with 'rolling your own'.
Those two muxes come through at 70% signal, but are clear. No non-correctable errors within a few minutes of viewing.
474.2MHz
82% signal strength
29.8 db
482.2MHz
80% signal strength
31.9 dB SNR
498MHz
83% signal strength
34.1 dB SNR
506MHz
81% signal strength
32.2 db SNR
522MHz
83% signal strength
34 dB SNR
530MHz
81% signal strength
32.5 dB SNR
746MHz
70% signal strength
26.1 dB SNR
754MHz
70% signal strength
25.9 dB SNR
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Thursday, 19 July 2018
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Harry Hackney 3:36 PM
Freeview Samsung smart tv why have some channels gone missing was working fine on all channels until the change over a short time ago yet my friend is on the same transmitter and his are working fine the actual channels I've lost but my friend is still receiving them excact set up apart from a mile in between us both 103 channels is all I receive must be at least TEN stations adrift according to my postcode TRIPLE checked all set up fine only have ONE connection and that is the AERIAL from the roof directly to the tv AND nothing else is connected to the tv or aerial all brand new fitted by the aerial engineer who has triple checked every aspect of why I do not receive all the channels Fenton transmit got them all before so why do I not now NOTHING as been altered all excatly the same can't even get a phone number to speak to anyone who would more than likely be able to sort the problem out for me. THANKS
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MikeP
4:42 PM
4:42 PM
Harry Hackney :
Put your post code into the Digital UK Coverage Checker, Digital UK - Coverage checker and look at which transmitter you are using. Then ensure that you are tuned correctly to those channels and that you have the correct aerial, some recent changes have often required a change of aerial to get all the channels.
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Thursday, 16 May 2019
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Geoffrey Davies11:56 AM
Hi,
why is it that BBC 4 & BBC News channels are not available in HD from the Fenton Transmitter unlike the Winter Hill Transmitter 30 miles away?
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