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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, England) mast?
Fenton transmitter - Fenton transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/11/2023 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
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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Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
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FENTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 today to 01:58 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 today to 01:58 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 8 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:29 AM
4:29 AM
FENTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 yesterday to 01:58 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 yesterday to 01:58 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 9 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:29 AM
4:29 AM
FENTON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 on 07 Mar to 01:58 on 07 Mar, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 on 07 Mar to 01:58 on 07 Mar. [BBC]
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Sunday, 11 March 2018
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Mervyn Tonge8:46 AM
11th March 2018.
I have lost C32 and C34 on Fenton. All other channels are excellent. Any suggestions?
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Mervyn's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
MikeP
11:29 AM
11:29 AM
Mervyn Tongue:
Some engineering work was done on the Fenton transmitter on Friday relating to changes to channel usage. So it could be that COMs 7 & 8 have been moved from Channels 32 and 34. So a check of what channels your equipment is tuned to is required. If you look at Coverage Checker - Detailed View you will see that they are now on channels 55 and 56 instead of 32 and 34.
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Hi Mike,
No joy on re-tuning on 55 and 56 despite one of my aerials being a mattress array. Freeview sent engineers round who said" wrong aerial2 and nothing they could do. My local aerial engineer assures me that 55 and 56 should be in range of my existing aerial. I have complained to Freeview who are investigating. Occasional images 0n 56 but very weak single. This appears to be a right mess.
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Many people in the Fenton transmitter area must have lost the 19 channels that were on channel 32 and 34 until Thursday the 8th of March 2018. Why have these channels been moved to frequencies which are closer to the top of the TV band which are going to suffer with interference from the cellular transmissions above the TV channels ?.
According to the information they are being transmitted with a power of only 140 watts, is this correct ?, if it is why is the power so low compared with the 2000 or 1000 watts from Fenton on the lower frequencies ?.
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StevensOnln111:51 PM
Chris bryan: COM7 & COM8 are in the process of becoming single frequency networks (SFNs) which will be broadcast on UHF channels 55 & 56 for all 30 transmitters which carry COM7/8 until these two temporary multiplexes close at some point between mid 2020 and 2022. This then frees up UHF channels 31-37 for muxes which need to be relocated from the 700MHz band, so without this change COM7/8 would have likely had to close much earlier whereas by moving to the 700MHz centre gap they are able to continue broadcasting for longer.
Digital UK are currently reporting that COM7 is running at 268W and COM8 at 280W from Fenton, with the power levels needing to be lower than the main PSB1-3 & COM4-6 muxes in order to prevent interference with other transmitters.
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Monday, 12 March 2018
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Kevin Amesbury1:54 AM
Newcastle
We are at postcode ST5 2LG, house number 8.
Until a few days ago we could get all eight Mux, but then we lost com7 and com8.
No detectable signal for com7 (ch32, 562.0MHz) or com8 (ch34, 578.0MHz).
This change coincides with recent work on Fenton transmitter,.
It also coincides with strong winds but everything looks ok with our roof aerial and no apparent disturbance to wiring.
Will com7 and com8 signal strength be returning soon?
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Kevin Amesbury2:11 AM
ok I have now seen the other messages posted by people during Sunday 11th March 2018.
No current detectable signal for ch55 (746MHz) or ch56 (754MHz) either
...and maybe that was also previously true for our postcode,
but we did not know cos we did not previously use those channels.
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