Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast?
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 18 Dec 22:44 until 18 Dec 22:47. . 
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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 Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 Malvern transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 1-4 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016
I agree, no ITV sd or ITV4, no signal on both my tv tuner and PC USB tuner, I am 1/2 a mile from the transmitter
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Phil Goodall2:07 PM
Thanks for confirming Paul, I too have two tuners, both the same. Question is will someone who see's these posts be able to provide status on the fix?
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Paul4:53 PM
Good question !!
I can't find any way of directly reporting a fault to the TX operators.
I've just tried the channels again and did briefly receive ITV SD but then it froze so is obviously a very weak signal.
So please, if someone technical sees this can they investigate please.
I use these channels becaust the tuner in my TV is nod HD.
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StevensOnln16:03 PM
Paul: If you've ruled out any faults with your aerial system and TV or set top box, you should contact the broadcaster (i.e. ITV in this case) to report the fault. This is an unofficial website for technical help and is unlikely to be monitored by transmitter engineers.
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Paul8:04 PM
Just called ITV and there is a problem with the Malvern transmitter and they are working on it.
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016
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Phil Goodall3:01 PM
Thanks Paul, looks like they fixed it last night
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Monday, 12 September 2016
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Richard Cooper9:53 AM
Paul: The BBC runs a department called the 'Radio & Television Investigation Service' (RTIS) and they will investigate any transmitter faults on your behalf, whether the channels you're missing or not receiving are BBC or non-BBC, it doesn't matter; they'll investigate anyway. The difficulty most people have is making contact with a 'human being' at the BBC RTIS department. It's probably easiest to use the 'contact us' facility on the BBC reception website because they don't publicly advertise a phone number. Someone will get back to you, as I myself have used this service. The transmitter operating company is called Arqiva, but it doesn't like members of the public contacting it by email or phone. Hope all this info helps you, Richard. People at BBC RTIS and Arqiva don't have time to sit around reading these posts on the UKFREE.TV website, unfortunately. More's the pity! Richard, Norwich.
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Paul9:15 PM
Many Thanks for the info Richard. Have bookmarked this website for future reference !!
Cheers
Paul
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Sunday, 30 October 2016
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