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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?
Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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
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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Wednesday, 26 October 2016
MikeP
3:22 PM
3:22 PM
Colin Lawson:
What are the signal strengths of the affected services? You have not given a post code so we have no clue as to where you are in relation to the transmitter. It is well known that too much signal causes the symptoms you describe. Please give your full post code and the requested signal strengths. Then we can perhaps suggest how you might correct the situation.
BTW, as you appear to be using Sutton Coldfield, as you posted here, then unless you are many miles away from the transmitter site then it is highly unlikely that you even need an aerial amplifier/booster.
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Thursday, 24 November 2016
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doreen2:40 PM
Robert dale: Could you tell me why I cannot acess local tv channel, on multiples 51. I live in Coventry and use Sutton Coldfield transmitter and all my other channels are perfect with 80 - 100 % signal strength.
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Friday, 25 November 2016
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StevensOnln111:47 PM
doreen: Local TV for Birmingham does not cover Coventry as it is only targeted at Birmingham.
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Saturday, 26 November 2016
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colin lawson6:08 PM
MikeP: Hi Mike. I have an amplifier in the loft that feeds 4 rooms (checked to see if still powered and it is). An engineer came round and lowered the signal power as far as it would go and I got the channels back. My postcode is ST174QJ and all was fine un til last night when the channels were missing or pix-elated again. Could it be atmospherics?
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Sunday, 27 November 2016
MikeP
1:39 PM
1:39 PM
Colin Lawson:
Without a full post code it is impossible to advise. There may be some atmospheric phenomena in some areas of the UK, usually in the presence of high pressure.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2016
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G.Phillips8:53 PM
Southam
over the last week poor signal strength during morning transmission (6am to 8am) also early evening 7pm to 9pm.- total picture break up experienced - commercial channels ok. Stockton Warwickshire. CV47 8Jr Please advise. Note transmission received via roof aerial only.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2016
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I Brown8:42 PM
GL545EL. HI we have been experiencing tv reception problems on all channels for the last few days and have had notihing at all since 20.00 (29/11). According to the website we should receive our broadcasts from Sutton coldfiled.
We have been having problems on and off now for months now and had new boosters fitted and the Arial realigned but it did not help as it righted it self after complaining about the service previously.
We are aware friends a few doors away are also suffering the same issues.
At present mys screen is showing a message "the receiver is not receiving a signal or the signal is too weak" on all channels.
IT is disappointing especially with BBC where we are having to pay license fees!
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Thursday, 29 December 2016
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Helen Tipton8:30 PM
Church Stretton
We get our Freeview signal from Sutton Coldfield and are in a poor signal area, (postcode SY6 7JA). We have a year old roof mounted aerial and a booster but we are currently experiencing problems again with either no signal or strong bit errors with pixelation. This always seems to happen when the Freeview Lite transmitter at Oakley Mynd has a reported fault. Could this be affecting our signal ? I know the weather may have been poor of late but this doesn't usually affect our signal. We are lucky enough to also have Freesat as a backup but many of the channels we like to watch are not available on this service. We cannot receive transmission from the Wrekin.
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Friday, 30 December 2016
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Helen Tipton9:57 AM
Helen Tipton: Oakley Mynd Freeview Lite transmitter is showing as repaired this morning and, as expected, we can now receive a perfect signal from Sutton Coldfield once again. The problem was obviously nothing to do with weather conditions.
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Thursday, 5 January 2017
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Steve Hart1:37 PM
Big Centre tv now replaced by Made in Birmingham
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