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 25/11/2024 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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Monday, 16 May 2011
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K W Cartwright10:47 AM
living in Redditch I am having problems with
pigeons using my ariel with the resultant mess. previously took transmissions from lark stoke but have had a Higher ariel installed so as to get channel 5.from sutton
coldfield/lichfield. If I change my ariel to pick up from lark stoke will I be able to get
1 2 3 4 5 &freeview chanels?
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K W Cartwright4:37 PM
Redditch
To Briantist. My postcode is B98 7UN.
From K Cartwright.
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K's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
K W Cartwright: You will get, today, a better sevice from the Lark Stoke transmitter.
However, you won't get the commercial multiplexes until 28th September 2011.
If you wait until the week before this, the high power service from Sutton Coldfield will provide the full set of Freeviwe services.
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Hi: I'm in Stratford at CV37 9SQ. Aerial upgraded a while back and all retuning done during April. I've noticed that Sky News (not HD) has been low power over the past week and unwatchable. Will it be like this until September?
Thanks...
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
John Darkin: Yes, as above "Following switchover at Lark Stoke, Arqiva A .. will remain on their existing frequencies and powers ... will adopt their final frequencies and powers during September 2011."
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PmJ11:03 PM
Warwick
Hi, please could you clarify if the first line saying 'Some channels on the Lark Stoke transmitter have lower transmission power' is the current situation & if so will the power be increased later (sept?)or is Lark Stoke now at the powers it will always be?
The problem I have is that I can't get MUXs C&D shown in your graphics but the rest are ok. Would my aerial need looking at? (Mux A is ok & I've done the full reset procedure). Thanks
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PmJ's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 19 May 2011
PmJ: As above " Following switchover at Lark Stoke, Arqiva A and Arqiva B will remain on their existing frequencies and powers, and the SDN multiplex will use a temporary frequency. All three multiplexes will adopt their final frequencies and powers during September 2011. During this transition period following frequencies will be used: SDN ch31 (50W), Arqiva A ch57 (25/50W), Arqiva B ch60 (25W)"
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Paul Mullen7:40 AM
On the digital coverage map from Lark Stoke the transmission/radiation area in yellow seems to be incorrect, as the transmission area also covers the vale Evesham and Stratford Upon Avon areas.
Are there plans to update this?
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Syd Wall3:26 PM
Shipston-on-stour
Update to my Channel 60/ITV4 problem. I had JT Aerials out a couple of weeks ago. He found that the coax from the aerial went through a splitter to go to the conservatory TV as well as the lounge TV. The conservatory bloke hadn't done it very well so he fixed that and replaced coax from the wall to lounge TV, all for very reasonable small charge. Still can't get Ch60/ITV4 on the LG TV receiver, but it's excellent through the Topfield PVR. So at long last, I'm happy. LG TV should be fine in September when Lark Stoke transmits Ch60 on full power. Thanks to John at JT Aerials.
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