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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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Syd Wall: ITV4 is not a public service channel. Rabbit and Gay Rabbit (owned by Teletext Ltd) are on the PSB as teletext provider has allocation, and they are only low-bitrate text services, not full-capacity TV services.
If there was no Rabbit and Gay Rabbit there would be no room for even 10% of a TV channel.
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rich greenslade: You should check your non working device is not on this list TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Syd Wall2:44 PM
Shipston-on-stour
OK Brian - understand that now. thanks
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Syd's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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bob plant3:55 PM
Thanks to this site I ignored various aerial suppliers who told me I needed " NEW AERIAL "
This morning I retuned my TV and now receive most channels I was receiving before switchover with far better reception. Some of the minor chanels ITV3, QVC etc only 30% signal. I assume that Sept should bring further improvement. LARK STOKE transmitter
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bob plant: Glad we saved you getting an aerial you didn't need. Yes, you will get the SDN multiplex when the signal goes to full power in September.
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bob plant7:51 PM
Evesham
Thanks again BRIANTIST lets hope this will save some others the expense of a new aerial,there are several of my friends who have been conned even though they have used reputable installers who carried out a full surey. ?????
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bob's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Ruski8:37 PM
Syd - I live in Bidford so not overly far from you and have just retuned. ITV4 from Larkstoke is fine on all 3 tele's - may it be that you have too strong a signal and need to attenuate??
All I can report is that things have gone smoothly with the switchover, signal strength and quality have increased so I (and swmbo) are happy!!
Russ
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Monday, 25 April 2011
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rich greenslade4:41 PM
still no joy from my philips HDT8520. I have logged a support call with them. I have tried using the scart instead of HDMI, no difference. It was working fine before switchover of lark stoke. In the interim april period I lost bbc channels and now I can't get anything at all. When I scan I get 65 channels but I can't view any of them. On the TV it is attached to (Finlux) I get everything but that doesn't record things. Hopefully philips will come up with something. Am I the only one with this problem....?
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rich greenslade5:40 PM
fixed it, had to reset to factory settings (did the 'reset' procedure first but that didn't work....) then rescan. Now getting over 80 channels.
Rich
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rich greenslade: Glad to hear you fix it.
You might have to do the same thing again when the commercial multiplexes change channel and power later in the year.
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