Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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 Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter._______
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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sutton Coldfield 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
| Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
| Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C48 | _local | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 | 1000kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
| com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
| com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
| LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Thursday, 30 January 2014
KEVIN GARDINER: Al Jazeera Arabic is on COM7, which is the new quasi-national multiplex which carries HD services. It is available from 30 transmitters only, at lower power than other multiplexes.
At your location it is only likely to be available from Sutton Coldfield. Brierley Hill and The Wrekin do not and will not broadcast it.
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Saturday, 1 March 2014
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Stuart1:07 PM
Arbroath
It's been reported on a forum that the BBC have put an audio stream of BBC Radio WM on Brierley Hill so presumably the whole Sutton Coldfield group. Just an audio stream, no LCN.
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Sunday, 2 March 2014
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KEVIN GARDINER12:32 PM
Stourbridge
I do a channel re-tune at least once a month to see if there's any new carriers for any new and up-coming tv or radio channels. After performing a re-tune, I quickly scanned through the new channel line up, and I can safely say that the reported rumour that there was a audio stream of BBC radio WM on the Brierley Hill transmitter is false. The only new channels to appear in the last week are for the local tv channel and Bonanza on channel 64 and local tv temp position on ch 791.
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Pete Silvester1:18 PM
Wolverhampton
KEVIN GARDINER: Hi I have tuned all free view channels in but the only ones with A poor or no signal at all are all the BBC including BBC News channel on 80. Please can you help.
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KEVIN GARDINER: From the report at Read this: a516digital: BBC local radio spotted testing on Freeview in West Midlands | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice the audio stream doesn't have any EPG data, so you won't see it without "test equipment".
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Thursday, 13 March 2014
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Mark Stafford5:48 PM
Getting poor recrption currently on arqa. All others fine. Aerial in loft. Looks like a transmitter issue as signal gradually degraded.
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KMJ,Derby9:00 PM
Mark Stafford: More likely that the high pressure is causing signals on C39/42/45 from Tacolneston and/or Hannington to travel further than normal into the Sutton Coldfield coverage area thereby blocking reception on the COM muxes from S/C for some viewers.
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Thursday, 20 March 2014
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KEVIN GARDINER1:55 PM
Stourbridge
I performed one of my monthly re-tunes to see what is new on Freeview, and today, the local tv test card has been replaced for the time being by children's tv channel " POP" on channel 75 in standard Freeview line-up. Both pop and Bonanza on ch 64 are temporary channels on the local tv com8 multiplex till June, when the local tv channel is launched between Easter and June this year, and the second channel slot is believed to be going to the ABC shopping channel.
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Monday, 24 March 2014
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anne11:33 AM
Having serious trouble with channel 85 (RT)
If I tune to this channel my PVR keeps switching itself off and back on again.
It doesnt happen at all on any other channel and I have tried tuning to ones
supposed to be on the same "mux box" I tried music,viva Film4 etc
why would onlyu this channel be doing this does anyone know
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014
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js3:27 PM
anne: The only unusual thing I can see about RT is the mapped MHEG stream for IP-TV.
These all have the stream mapped to them:
LCN -SID TYPE SERVICE NAME
022 6540 SDTV Ideal World
045 69E0 SDTV Film4+1
047 6A20 SDTV 4seven
085 6B40 SDTV RT
040 6CC0 SDTV Rocks & Co 1
035 6E80 SDTV QVC Beauty
225 6EA0 DATA VISION
226 6EC0 DATA CCTV
227 6EE0 DATA Sports
231 6F00 DATA Racing UK
229 6F20 DATA Propeller TV
239 6F40 DATA Sonlife
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