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
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
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Peter Smith10:29 AM
Will normal signal level be returned on the Fenton transmitter and when is it likely to be.
Experiencing bad or no picture since 8th October, and bad pixilation prior to that
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Chris.SE3:36 PM
Peter Smith:
Apart from the Planned Engineering which will not help (and they never provide details of the work or duration) I'm afraid it's down to current weather conditions -
They have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia, now currently affecting Wales and England. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you'd be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter, as detailed in the top section of this page.
The BBC and Freeview have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - from 07 October | Help receiving TV and radio
High pressure could affect reception across parts of the UK this week | Freeview
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