Full Freeview on the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter

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

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52.082,-1.729 or 52°4'53"N 1°43'43"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 38,000 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 Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) mast?

Lark Stoke transmitter - Lark Stoke transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Lark Stoke 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)	281m	DTG-	1,260W
	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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 18 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C23 (490.0MHz)	281m	DTG-	1,260W
	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)	281m	DTG-	1,260W
	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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C33+ (570.2MHz)	276m	DTG-8	1,260W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 Great! Movies Action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 69 HorrorXtra, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 203 CITV, 208 Pop Player, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 16 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C36 (594.0MHz)	276m	DTG-8	1,260W
	Smithsonian Channel, 11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 71 That's 60s, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 70s, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C48 (690.0MHz)	276m	DTG-8	1,260W
	Quest Red +1, Classic Hits, 12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 73 HobbyMaker, 76 That's 80s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 83 Together TV, 84 PBS America, 90 Together TV +1, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 19 others

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

The Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, 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 Lark Stoke transmitter?

BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 45km north-northwest (345°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 46km north-northwest (345°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, 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
C23	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C26	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C29	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C30				-BBCB	BBCB
C33	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		SDN
C36					ArqA
C41				+SDN
C44				ArqA
C47				ArqB
C48				_local	_local

_{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	6.3kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 1.26kW
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C, Mux D	(-24dB) 25W

Local transmitter maps

Lark Stoke Freeview Lark Stoke AM/FM Lark Stoke TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Lark Stoke transmitter area

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. Lark Stoke 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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5:32 AM

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- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 11:50 on 27 May to 12:02 on 27 May. [BBC]

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Peter Gilbert
9:39 AM

Is there a problem with Larkstoke , please? Tried 2 different tv's, tried re-tuning. Now 1-9 don't show on programme guide and many others missing. Itv channels showing on channels 800 upwards.

Thanks
Peter

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Richard Cooper

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11:05 AM
Norwich

Peter Gilbert: Hi Peter G. There are no faults or work at the this morning of Monday 6th. June, 2016. There are, however, high atmospheric pressure conditions which can cause co-channel with other transmitters using the same that Lark Stoke uses. Unfortunately, this is down to the vagaries of our climate and weather, so all you can do is to wait until lower pressure conditions prevail, view tv online or invest in a '' tv setup. You are entitled to contact programme providers to inform them that you cannot view via the 'Freeview' platform, but I doubt they will say any more than I've said here. Sorry I couldn't have been of more, Richard, Norwich, 11:00 a.m.

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Peter Gilbert
11:10 AM

Thanks for the info Richard. I've just tried re-tuning again and all is back to normal.

At least I know what to do next time.

Best Regards

Peter

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5:32 PM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:25 today to 16:27 today. [BBC]

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- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:25 yesterday to 16:27 yesterday. [BBC]

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- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:25 on 25 Jun to 16:27 on 25 Jun. [BBC]

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- Freeview: BBC TV Reduced from 16:47 today to 17:08 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 16:25 on 25 Jun to 16:27 on 25 Jun. [BBC]

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