Full Freeview on the Lark Stoke (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter
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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 18/11/2024 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)
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 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.
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 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | 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
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Friday, 24 February 2017
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StevensOnln110:15 AM
Peter Wineman: If you mean the transmitter, there are no faults showing. This website is independent and has no connection with any broadcaster or the company that operates the transmitter.
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Monday, 10 September 2018
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Steve10:16 PM
My TV is not detecting some of the newer HD channels like Quest HD. Are they transmitted from Lark Stoke? If not, when will they be?
Thank you
Regards
Steve
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StevensOnln110:54 PM
Steve: Quest HD is broadcast on the COM8 multiplex, which (along with COM7) is a temporary service broadcast from 30 transmitters covering around 70% of UK households. There are no plans for COM7/COM8 to be broadcast from any further transmitters and both multiplexes are expected to close by 2022.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2018
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Peter Gilbert9:21 AM
We have no freeserve channels at all this morning in cv37 area. Checked second tv - same. Aerial seems ok. Not seen it before when there are no channels. Is anyone else seeing this, please?
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StevensOnln110:34 AM
Peter Gilbert: Presumable you mean Freeview (Freeserve used to be an internet service provider which had nothing to do with TV). There are no reported problems with the Lark Stoke transmitter. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Please provide a full postcode so that we cans ee predicted coverage at your location. Do not attempt to retune.
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Thursday, 27 September 2018
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Peter Gilbert10:09 AM
Sorry StevenOnln1, you are correct! Not sure what happened, but had no freeview at all, but without any input from me it came back later in the day. Not seen it before when no channels available. Thanks for your reply. Peter PS I had a freeserve email....so I think it was an auto correct.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2018
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Mr S.N.Ayres3:24 PM
I have had interference, brief loss of picture and part picture loss, via my Youview box and Larkstoke transmitter. I am in Warwick and have the problem only at times between 5 and 7 pm. A 4G filter does not make any difference and all the other checks were made. There is a stronger high definition signal received compared to standard definition. The worst is local BBC news after 6 pm.
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018
MikeP
11:33 AM
11:33 AM
Mrs S N Ayres:
That looks very likely to be local interference caused by something operated on a timer. Please ask your neighbours who use Freeview whether they get the same problem at the same time. If they do, then you all need to report the problem. If they don't then you need to investigate in your own house what is being controlled by a timer.
Many years ago I had a customer who had similar interference problems between 6 PM and 7 PM. It turned out to be a near neighbour who had their own diathermy machine that they used every day between 6 and 7 PM!
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Wednesday, 28 August 2019
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Gordon Ferguson2:09 PM
Evesham
Hi
I live in a 2 story block of flats with a communal aerial mounted on our flat roof. This is currently aligned to Ridge Hill, your website tells me it should be aligned to Larkstoke. I've contacted a local installer who has confirmed that I should get better reception from Larkstoke, but only if I have line of sight to the transmitter, this is the part I'm not sure of, there is a taller building (3 stories with a pitched roof) a couple of hundred yards away on an easterly (approximately 100 degrees) bearing from me. Could you please advise whether I would have line of sight from my location? Most of the surrounding buildings also have their aerials aligned to Ridge Hill, a couple point to Larkstoke & there's even one that appears to point to Sutton Coldfield. Just to confirm my address is Bewdley Court, Evesham WR11 4AH
Kind Regards
Gordon
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