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The symbol shows the location of the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter which serves 74,000 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Nottingham 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)175mDTG-400W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C24 (498.0MHz)175mDTG-400W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C21+ (474.2MHz)175mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD East Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 V max
C33 (570.0MHz)175mDTG-8400W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C36 (594.0MHz)175mDTG-8400W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C48 (690.0MHz)175mDTG-8400W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LNG
 V -6dB
C44 (658.0MHz)175mDTG-12100W
Channel icons
from 27th May 2014: 7 Notts TV,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham transmitter?

regional news image
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 9km east-southeast (117°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 72km southwest (218°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)

How will the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-134 Mar 2020
A K TA K TA K TW TW T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C33SDN
C34C5wavesC5waves
C36ArqA
C44_local
C48ArqBArqB
C50tv_offLNG
C51tv_offSDN
C52tv_offArqA

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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-5 2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W
LNG(-13dB) 100W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-17dB) 40W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Nottingham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Nottingham was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Stewart Crowe
3:54 PM

Well, well-I to got an e-mail-this despite their telephone service assuring me there WAS a know problem-talk about a waste of time and space-content follows-
Dear Mr Crowe

Reference CAS-726037-378F30

Thanks for contacting the BBC.

I understand you've encountered problems with your HD reception recently.

The Digital UK postcode checker suggest HD is only available from the Nottingham transmitter so is entirely possible that you are now tuned into a site which doesn't carry the service such as Belmont. If so, I'd try manually retuning your receiver. The following links should prove helpful if you are unsure of the process:

Postcode Checker - Trade View

TV Re-tune uploads

Although it is worth noting that atmospheric pressure may have weakened your signal from Nottingham, causing you to temporarily lose it.

Another possibility is an issue with some aspect of your equipment. If this is the case, I'd suggest having a professional aerial installer, ideally registered with the Confederation of Aerial Industries (CAI) to assess the situation:

Aerial installers and satellite engineers - Confederation of Aerial Industries

Our reception advice website also provides details of how to identify and troubleshoot commonly encountered issues:

BBC - Help receiving TV and radio

(Please note we are not responsible for the content of any non-BBC websites.)

I hope this information helps to clarify the situation and I'm grateful to you for taking the time to raise your concerns with us and I'd like to assure you that we value your feedback highly.

Kind Regards

James Kelly
BBC Audience Services
www.bbc.co.uk/reception

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Left hand, right hand-so nw we know-we are ALL tuned in to the wrong transmitter and/or our equipment is faulty.No signal yet-15.54pm

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Tom Howes
4:04 PM

Have just spoken to a very helpful man at Arqiva (who incidentally said don't believe everything that you read on this forum but the guy who runs it - Briantist - his advice is 'pretty sound'!).

Anyway, the man from Arqiva is looking into it. He admitted it sounded a little odd as I've got 2 independent freeview hd sources, both of which stopped working at the same time. He certainly didn't seen to be aware of a problem and said that nothing was changed over the bank holiday, but he did accept that it wouldn't affect many people at this stage and that might explain why they hadn't heard. He also suggested that I retune my decoder without the aerial in, then retune it again with it back in to completely wipe the memory, which I've done to no avail.

He said he'd ring me back in a bit so I'll let you know how I get on!

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Tom Howes
4:39 PM

Update! Very helpful man from arqiva has contacted their control room who are aware of what's been happening, but aren't sure why. They're in touch with a local retailer who told then hd channels were working ok on saturday when they'd switched to a reserve transmitter but weren't aware things had changed back since then.

If I hear any more I'll let you know!

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Briantist
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4:51 PM

Tom Howes: Very nice of Arqiva to say that. I'm glad to hear we have some progress, or at least an acknowledgement of the problem.

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Stewart Crowe
5:13 PM

I'm impressed that Tom Howes managed to track down a contact at arquiva. I'm bound to observe that this isn't the only site which is bombarded with the exact same scenario, though it is the most helpful. What is so galling is that they don't have a simple monitoring system to alert them to problems-a man in a room in the region watching HD would suffice. It's taken Tom and others-not least myself-this long to get half an acknowledgement that there IS a transmission problem-it is NOT our sets, our aerials etc. Postcodes from NG 1 to NG20 are affected, yet they seem to have been in in denial at the various bodies-it is NOT us not picking up the signal-there is NO signal, and no-one wants to suggest when and if it will return. Really shoddy service overall.Thanks for the updates, SC.

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Briantist
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5:32 PM

Stewart Crowe: There is, in fact, lots of monitoring equipment, and these automatically create the error logs that you see from the BBC and Digital UK.

However, from time to time, there is an error that is not caught by the system, and because everyone relies on the information from the automatic monitoring being correct, you get the situation where people in the call centre can't see it so they ask you to retune.

As I said above, the reports seem to suggest that the DVB-S2 carrier signal and multiplex are being broadcast, but the multiplex contains either no data, or corrupted data.

I rather suspect that this is an exceptional fault, and thus the problems experienced getting it acknowledged.

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Stewart Crowe
5:59 PM

Thanks to Briantist for keeping a cool technical head and explaining things simply. My point was that monitoring equipment is all very well until you get an anomaly where the monitors say all is OK-but the lack of picture on the set says the opposite, and to that end, a less sophisticated method such " man with a set" might be advised! The multiple agencies involved "passing the buck" doesn't help either, and it has been reminiscent of "The IT Crowd"-"have you tried switching it off and back on?" from every helpdesk! I get frustrated by technology that does not work, and situations where common sense says that if everyone in the area has got no HD channels, it's not the sets or aerials!!!!!! OK, it's unusual-let's hope they get their fingers IN getting it put back to rights. Good Luck All! SC.

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Briantist
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6:07 PM

Stewart Crowe: It is simply not possible to employ people to manually watch all the channels from all the transmitters, and much less efficient.

The monitoring equipment in use at the moment can detect and correct problems within milliseconds. You often won't even notice that the fault has occurred, been detected and a backup instigated.

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Stewart Crowe
6:28 PM

All Hail to ME! I found the number for the Arqiva Control Room via a Security number-They DID NOT KNOW about the problem. The VERY HELPFUL ANDY took me through tuning-no effect. He then reconfigured their system-and and as I watched-BACK CAME THE HD CHANNELS!!
However-a word of caution-this is the " fix they used on Monday-they did not know it had since "locked up" was their expression!
He gave me a 24 hour helpline-08001386959, so hopefully this may be of assistance. He was a really nice guy-apologetic, cheerful and helpful. They DON'T understand why it happened, so fingers crossed! Good Luck ALl! SC.

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Briantist
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7:46 PM

Stewart Crowe: Oh, look, it's appeared in the BBC log.

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