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 |
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| 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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Saturday, 7 May 2011
T
Teresa9:57 PM
To KMJ Derby,
Thanks for your prompt and helpful advice
Kind Regards
Teresa
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Sunday, 8 May 2011
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James Mooney11:26 AM
Warwick
Mike D Many thanks for your response. BBC 4 is no problem, as is BBC Parliament which I believe is also Multiplex B. I live at Compton Verney which is about 8 miles east of Stratford upon Avon and aerial is inside a bell tower pointing at Sutton Coldfield. Should I try Lark Stoke direction? Perhaps that is the the interfering transmitter? I have tried unplugging aerial halfway through scan but that has made no difference. Perhaps current tech work at transmitter will resolve. Paying TopUp TV for an unobtainable service starts to hurt! Thanks, James
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James's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby3:36 PM
James Mooney:If you have lost Sky news, that is MuxC on C52+ and Sky Sports on MuxB (C51) suggests possible interference around C51/C52.Is the BBC4 that you are receiving definitely coming from Sutton Coldfield or have you stored channels from Lark Stoke Mux BBCA? Regarding the aerial when scanning for Sutton channels you need to leave the aerial unplugged for the first third of the scan to miss out Lark Stoke PSBs, then re-insert before C40 to cover the Sutton frequencies. It is very unlikely that you would be able to receive Sky Sports from Lark Stoke as you would need to receive Mux ArqB which is currently low power and not expected to serve your location until September.
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Monday, 9 May 2011
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Susan5:52 PM
Birmingham
I have a freeview TV in my bedroom running off a new aerial located in my loft. I have had great reception up until last week and now unable to watch it as I have lots of interference and breaking up on all the channels. I have just purchased a booster and although it looks like BBC1 and BBC2 are now okay (up until now), all the other channels are much the same. Can you please advise. I live in Kitts Green, Birmingham B33 0AQ
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Susan's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
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Alan Aston 9:36 PM
Considerable pixelation on a few channels on Freeview digital Located in Stone by canal
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Alan Aston: Please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for some suggestions.
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
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AlvinF10:25 PM
Re the Sutton switchover in Sept, when this happens will the Audio volume improve.I have Sky+ on the lounge TV as well as Freeview HD and the sound volume on freeview is poor in comparison to Sky I have to increase the volume by approx 10points on freeview to get the same volume as sky. The signal quality on freeview is excellent a max of 10.
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Sunday, 15 May 2011
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DJ9:26 AM
AlvinF: The output volume will not change after switch over or whatever signal strength you have. Check your tv to see if you have any delta volume controls to balance the different input volumes. I have noticed that 5.1 sound (DD or AAC) down mixing to stereo for TV's normally ends up quieter on all my equipment.
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Lisa10:28 AM
Stoke-on-trent
We had to retune all our freeview TV's on April 20th, all appeared to be OK on the two big TVs, the smaller kitchen TV was intermittently getting blocky on ITV channels only. BBC were all perfect.
Aerial is on the roof, fitted 2 years ago to receive freeview by a proper engineer. This feeds a splitter in the loft which then feeds various TVS around the house. All have worked perfectly for 2 years.
Since about may 3rd 2011 we cant watch ITV1 on the small TV,its blocky and shrieky, can suffer it on the big one buts its awful, and also have very poor ITV2, E4, and a few others (still perfect on BBC).
Have read freeview notices about poor ITv signals but am concerned its got no better a week later. Any suggestions? Thank you.
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Lisa's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Lisa: Can you start by looking at the Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?
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