Full Freeview on the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter which serves 11,000 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.
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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 Saddleworth (Oldham, 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 Saddleworth 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 Saddleworth (Oldham, 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 Saddleworth transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-north-west-tonight.jpg)
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 20km west-southwest (248°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-granada-reports.jpg)
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 20km west-southwest (248°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | |||
C39 | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
C41 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
C48 | -ArqB | -ArqB | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||
C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | |||||
C51tv_off | -SDN | -SDN | -SDN | SDN | |||||
C52tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +ArqA | +ArqA | +ArqA |
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 | 2kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 40W |
Local transmitter maps
Saddleworth Freeview Saddleworth DAB Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 7 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
12:09 AM
12:09 AM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Friday, 15 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
12:09 AM
12:09 AM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:38 PM
5:38 PM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 today to 14:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
8:37 PM
8:37 PM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 today to 14:21 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 today to 14:21 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 25 May 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:33 AM
5:33 AM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 yesterday to 14:21 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 yesterday to 14:21 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 26 May 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:33 AM
5:33 AM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 on 24 May to 14:21 on 24 May, HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:58 on 24 May to 14:21 on 24 May. [BBC]
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Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Robert Weedon10:05 PM
Should I get pbs America on the Saddleworth transmitter
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StevensOnln111:20 PM
Robert Weedon: PBS America is not broadcast from Saddleworth.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
3:08 PM
3:08 PM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:09 today, HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:09 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
6:08 PM
6:08 PM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:09 today to 15:34 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 15:34 today to 15:46 today, BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 15:46 today, HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:09 today to 15:34 today, HD Digital TV Weak Signal [BBC]
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