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The symbol shows the location of the Rugeley (Staffordshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,000 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 Rugeley (Staffordshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Rugeley 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
C41 (634.0MHz)110mDTG-8W
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1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 19 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)110mDTG-8W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (West 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
C47 (682.0MHz)110mDTG-8W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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The Rugeley (Staffordshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Rugeley transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 32km south (174°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 32km south (174°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Rugeley (Staffordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Mar 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C47BBCB
C48BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCB
C52tv_offD3+4
C56tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C66BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C68C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 8W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield 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. Rugeley 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, 1 July 2012
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Richard
3:01 PM
Rugeley

I am thinking of a Freeview antenna and secondary telly. We are 1km from Rugeley TX and I would prefer a log periodic antenna.

So few around -- anywhere. Yet professionals are keen on them.

Anyone using one in this part of the world ?

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Dave Lindsay
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3:42 PM

Richard: For information and a source for logs, see Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial

Rugeley transmitter only carries the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) multiplexes. For a list of the six multiplexes, see:

DMOL Post-DSO Multiplex Channel Allocations

To receive the COMs as well, you will probably have to pick-up from Sutton Coldfield. You mention a secondary television; if the primary one is terrestrial, then why not use the existing aerial for both?

Television Aerial Boosters / Amplifiers, Splitters, Diplexers & Triplexers


See the page on the mb21 Transmission Gallery for Rugeley:

mb21 - The Transmission Gallery

There is a comment on that page about an issue in the area with reflections of Sutton Coldfield's signals caused by the local power station's cooling towers. The relay itself uses a four-log array to receive from Sutton Coldfield for this reason.

Digital is more tolerable of reflections, so to what degree it will be an issue in your location, I don't know.

I'm not an aerial installer, but I understand that when you are talking such a low powered transmitter, line of sight is almost imperative.

Obviously the cooling towers aren't likely to be causing any reflections of the low powered signal from the school!

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Monday, 23 July 2012
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sparky
1:55 AM

Hi Guys,

The Rugeley TV relay was switched on in 1991.

Regards

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Tuesday, 8 January 2013
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Robert Giles
6:27 PM

I live in Stafford ST16. Since around 1st Jan 2013 I have been experiencing a certain amount of defragmentation of picture and audio reception. Not enough to blank out the picture entirely, but on some stations it is becoming an irritation. I had my cabling and digital booster upgraded last year (2012) and the guy checked everything over with his meters and from the 'digital changeover' I had a very good digital reception throughout the house. So what is happening here at this moment in time?

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