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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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Thursday, 8 September 2011
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Peter7:51 AM
Malvern
Just done retune, everything fine but now no red button service. Any thoughts?
Postcode WR14 1LN. Aerial in loft
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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BWogan12:39 PM
Any help on this one? My TV reception from the malvern transmitter has always been great, however in the last few days my DVD Recorder has been unable to pick up ITV C4 C4+1 etc yet the TV remains crystal clear. Panasonic helpline guy said the recorders can be a touch sensitive, doesn't really help when I want to record The Killing tonight. Any help greatly appreciated.
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BWogan: It does sound like a post-switchover too much power problem. If you have an amplifier or booster you may have to remove it from your system.
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BWogan2:36 PM
Thanks Brianist but the problem occured a few days before the switchover, and there is no booster on the system. Very frustrating.
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BWogan: You might find Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice useful.
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Sunday, 11 September 2011
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Dave Adams4:33 PM
I live in the WR14 2FD area of Malvern. Can not get BBC 1, 2, 3, News, but can get BBC4 on my Humax 9150 PVR. I have a Sony Bravia KDL32 Tv, which picks all channels, but are blocky on BBC's channels. I have done a fresh retune on the Humax, about 10 times over the past few days since switchover. Sometimes BBC's channels are found up in the 800's, but no picture or no signal. Is there too much power or not enough from transmitter.
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Dave Adams: I would start by doing this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice to the box.
However, the 9150 PVR has been known to have problems during the "mixed mode" situation between the first and second dates of switchover.
So, either wait until the morning of Wednesday 21st September 2011 or clear the channels out by scanning with the aerial out and then do a manual add for:
C39, C41, C44, C47, C51 and C59.
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Richard Worthington8:46 PM
Malvern
Briantist,
First a thanks for all your previous advice - sure much appreciated by all !
I have a media center and following the 7th Sept switch-over a few of the channels (BBC1, Channel 5 etc) have been dropping out/blocky especially in the morning. I've a couple of questions ...
1) During the 7th-21st period will the transmitter be having work done on it/reduced power for any reason ?
2) Did read previously the power at Malvern was going to be increased in this switchover - is this still the case ?
Many thanks in advance,
Richard
WR14 1QJ, Aerial in Loft, Windows Media Center, Windows 7, Dual Black Gold BGT3620 DVB-T cards
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