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.
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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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Monday, 3 September 2018
Transmitter engineering
3:23 PM
3:23 PM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:03 today to 10:30 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today to 11:43 today. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Transmitter engineering
12:23 AM
12:23 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:03 yesterday to 10:30 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 yesterday to 11:43 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Transmitter engineering
6:08 AM
6:08 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:03 on 03 Sep to 10:30 on 03 Sep. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 on 03 Sep to 11:43 on 03 Sep. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Transmitter engineering
6:07 AM
6:07 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:52 yesterday to 00:17 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 23:53 yesterday to 00:48 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 13 September 2018
Transmitter engineering
6:07 AM
6:07 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:52 on 11 Sep to 00:17 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 23:53 on 11 Sep to 00:48 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 14 September 2018
Transmitter engineering
6:07 AM
6:07 AM
SUTTON COLDFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:52 on 11 Sep to 00:17 on 12 Sep. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 23:53 on 11 Sep to 00:48 on 12 Sep. [BBC]
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Thursday, 20 September 2018
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Ray Hart6:21 PM
You say there's no current problems with transmissions from Sutton Coldfield, you are joking of course. I live on the Kingstanding/Sutton Coldfield boarder, at the moment it's not watchable, It's freezing and going on and of, yesterday was the same.
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Norman D. Landing7:52 PM
Ray Hart: Of course they are joking! Sutton Coldfield only serves 4.5 MILLION viewers, is monitored 24/7 LIVE remotely by Arqivas control room engineers, has multiple redundancy in equipment, feeds around 35 relay sites, all of which are operating normally, and yet YOU are the only person with a problem...
...so of course its the multi-million pound transmitter and not your cheap antenna, crap coax cable or few hundred quid telly...in the middle of a storm...
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Friday, 21 September 2018
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MikeP10:20 AM
Ray Hart:
There are NO problems with the Sutton Coldfield transmitter. The most recent work was to the DAB transmitter, not the Freeview one, and that was completed on 12th September.
Please check all your aerial cables and connections. If there are any coaxial plugs/sockets then unplug those and refit them. That will clear any corrosion/oxidation from the conacts - a well known cause of problems such as you report.
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Thursday, 27 September 2018
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Richard11:09 AM
You need to update: com7 and com8 moved to channels 55 and 56 ages ago. They are still broadcast at low power (why?!) however so those of us far away from the TX have reception difficulties when the weather is bad or there's the wrong kind of snow.
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