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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Pendle Forest (Lancashire, England) mast?

PENDLE FOREST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Nov 09:00 until 20 Nov 14:37. . FM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 20 Nov 09:00 until 20 Nov 14:37. . BBC


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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

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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
Thursday, 27 October 2011
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Di
12:49 AM
Burnley

Two digital TVs both lost signal tonight; both on different aerials yet old analogue TVs using digi boes are fine on both aerials. What's going on? We are on Pendle Forest

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Briantist
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8:05 AM

Diana: There were no transmitter faults last night - I am unclear as to what the cause of the problem would be, for general information please can you look at the Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?

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Thursday, 21 June 2012
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Craig
8:02 PM

I live in Trawden (BB8) Is it possible to switch the transmitter than my house uses from Winter Hill to Pendle Forest?

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Mark Fletcher
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8:29 PM
Barnsley

Craig,Trawden.If your horizontally polarised aerial that faces Winter Hill is a group C/D type tipped green then the answer is no because Pendle Forest major relay is an all group A mast and group C/D aerials (coloured green at its tips) will fail to pick up anything on an all group A mast let alone Pendle Forest relay itself.

If it is a group W wideband aerial currently facing Winter Hill that you have (coloured black at its tips) then you can use it for Pendle Forest but you will have to change the polarity from horizontal to vertical as Pendle Forest is polarised vertically.
However you may find that group W wideband aerials have a poor response on group A frequencies,more so on an all group A mast like Pendle Forest itself which is only a 100w (0.1kw) relay mast.You're best bet if you decide to change from Winter Hill to Pendle Forest is to purchase a group A (red coloured tips) aerial preferably a Yagi 18A vertically polarised for Pendle Forest.



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Dave Lindsay
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8:47 PM

Craig: Look at www.aerialsandtv.com for information.

As Mark says, if you have a C/D aerial, then it will be unsuitable for Pendle Forest.

What aerial you need probably depends on what sort of signal you have. In the best areas, use a log which are naturally wideband, but have a flatter response than yagis.

If it's not so good, then a Group A yagi aerial as suggested by Mark might be what you're looking for.

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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
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Michael Howe
8:11 PM

Since the re-tune on 10 April we seem to have lost all HD brodcasts (from Pendle Forest I think). I retuned the PVR and it doesn't find the programmes, I left the TV with original tunings but there is "no signal". Not sure if others are experiencing this problem, waiting an answer from the BBC but it's not that easy to find who to report to !

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Dave Lindsay
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8:18 PM

Michael Howe: There was no retune required for Pendle Forest as no channels have changed.

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Sunday, 20 March 2016
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Kay Flannagan
10:21 AM

I live on Venab

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Friday, 16 December 2016
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Christopher Holden
11:12 PM
Burnley

My area is BB12 7HA - should I be able to receive True Christmas?


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Saturday, 17 December 2016
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StevensOnln1
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11:01 AM

Christopher Holden: There aren't any transmitter broadcasting True Christmas that cover your postcode.

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