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The symbol shows the location of the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Pendle Forest 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
C28+ (530.2MHz)323mDTG-100W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) North West, 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
C25+ (506.2MHz)323mDTG-100W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C22+ (482.2MHz)323mDTG-100W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North 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
C27- (521.8MHz)323mDTG-8100W
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
C21+ (474.2MHz)323mDTG-8100W
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
C24- (497.8MHz)323mDTG-8100W
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

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

The Pendle Forest (Lancashire, 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 Pendle Forest transmitter?

regional news image
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 41km south (184°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
regional news image
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 41km south (184°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.

How will the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1330 Mar 2018
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21+ArqAArqA
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C24-ArqBArqB
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves+D3+4D3+4
C27-SDNSDN
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves+BBCABBCA
C30_local_local
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.

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

Analogue 1-4 500W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100W
Mux A*(-10dB) 50W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area

May 1956-Jul 1968Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Granada 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. Pendle Forest 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
Sunday, 20 January 2019
MikeP
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12:00 PM

Mark Fletcher:

Further to that said by StevensOnln1, you would have to seek the permission of the property owner to mount a second aerial on the roof, even if it is on a different part of the property. If you do get that permission, you would do best to use a wideband aerial or a log-periodic as the current set of channels used are in Group C/D but next year (2020) they are due to change to be in the Group A range. A wideband type aerial will receive all so obviates the need for another change of aerial.



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Saturday, 6 July 2019
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Chris Clegg
8:56 AM

Please can you tell me why 'True Entertainment and 'True Movies' seem to have been deleted? I have re-scanned twice and although they appear on the channel list, they do not load to 48 and 49. Is this just a problem with the Pendle Forest transmitter? The signal itself is very patchy, constantly showing 'no signal' or freezing.

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MikeP
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9:31 AM

Chris Clegg:

It has been stated many times elsewhere on this website that True Entertainment is now only available on the local multiplexes where they are broadcast. Not every transmitter has a local service as there are no local TV station in all areas.

If you put your full post code and house name/number into the Digital UK Coverage Checker, select the Detailed View option and press Go you will see a listing of the transmissions available in your location. If there are no local services listed then you will not get True Entertainment. The change was decided by the broadcaster alone.



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Friday, 10 July 2020
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martin taylor
7:40 PM

The Signal Quality of the 5 HD Channels on my Panasonic BluRay Recorder hovers between 4 and 8 and as such I get pixelating and every now and then a No Signal message for a split second which gets much worse with the Weather. I've reset and retuned on it a few times but it seems to make no difference. The ordinary Standard Channels (or most of them) are all OK.

I get none of this problem on my TV -which is part of the same set up and the Signal Quality is excellent.

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Saturday, 11 July 2020
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Chris.SE
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5:34 AM

martin taylor:

You need to explain how your aerial is connected to your set up and what connecting leads/splitters etc you are using for a more specific suggestion, otherwise the only things you can do are check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them.
Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this may give an indication about aerial/downlead problems.
Also check that your downlead looks undamaged (especially if it is old) and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.

Also check your don't have any HDMI leads running close to any aerial leads/flyleads as they can sometimes cause interference.
It might be that your normal reception of the HD BBCB multiplex is not as good as the others or your transmitter currently has Planned Engineering if this is only a recent problem, but we'd need a full postcode to check those particular things without knowing which transmitter(s) you can/may receive.

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Tuesday, 15 September 2020
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Lawrence Hawkins
7:42 PM

My tv's (2 separate aerials) has kept going on and off (saying no signal) for the last 20 minutes.

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Wednesday, 16 September 2020
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Chris.SE
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11:45 AM

Lawrence Hawkins:

A lot of Granada relay transmitters are listed for Planned Engineering. If you provide a full postcode we may be able to check if there any specific reports on this transmitter.

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Monday, 13 May 2024
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Robin Heath
10:28 AM

Freeview is still down after the severe thunderstorm last night (12/05/24) . Channel search shows no signal.. Pendle Forest Transmitter. Thanks

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StevensOnln1
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10:57 AM

Robin Heath: There's no fault showing for the Pendle Forest transmitter, but it has been listed for planned engineering work for the last few weeks, which are due to continue this week.

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Chris.SE
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1:33 PM

Robin Heath:

One assumes that you were correctly tuned before you had no signal. You should not have done a "channel search" or "Retune" when you have no signal. You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded. The usual result is to clear your correct tuning and then you will receive nothing when signals return.
IF you did retune, you will have to do so again until your channels are returned.

As you haven't given a full postcode, we can't check your predicted reception and possibly make suggestions that may improve your situation when there is Planned Engineering if that is causing the current problem.

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