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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Thursday, 23 June 2011
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Pheebz2:48 AM
DSO in this case means Digital Switch Over, as far as I can tell
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H Bradford2:56 AM
Coventry
No signal in Coventry CV3 1BT. After resetting a few channels beginning with "Yesterday"came back but main ones remain lost.
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Brian Reamsbottom5:37 AM
Bilston
The signal is very poor
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Vince7:16 AM
Walsall
WS2 8YA.
All BBC/ITV digital freeview signals very weak since I checked, and re-tuned 4 times at 5am today, showing BAD SIGNAL - strength is 4 where it was minimum 8 on most channels - is this due to the on-going engineering works?
Aerial is in Attic, Horizontal and has worked for the past 12 months, perfect up to when switch off last night at 9pm.
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KMJ,Derby11:40 AM
Vince: If you retuned at 5am when Sutton Coldfield was off the air it is possible you have stored channels for The Wrekin transmitter.
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Friday, 24 June 2011
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Debs B7:11 PM
Why is it that the engineers at the Sutton Coldfield Transmitter have found it necessary to turn the transmitter off between 00:50 and 05:57 every day this week and yet cannot 'predict' this until after the event ???
Also, every night this week, BBC1 has shown a fairly good film in the late evening which is ALWAYS scheduled to finish at 01:10. Could the engineers not wait 20 minutes so that those of us who are only able to watch TV at this time could atleast see the end of the film ???????
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
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Dawn Fellows9:02 AM
Redditch
Since Thurs 23rd June I've had NO SIGNAL on ALL freeview channels on all our TV's. Is this due to transmitter works or have I got major problems with aerial
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john skinner7:02 PM
digtal keeps tuning into chanel 44 in stead
of 41 ikeep setting it at 41 which is
medium but it keeps tuning back to 44
which red and poor reception
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Monday, 27 June 2011
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Mr R Pierrepont12:42 PM
Nottingham
Although in the East Midlands we receive our signal from Sutton Coldfield.
We can only receive a very fuzzy ITV 1 on terrestrial at the moment. We have had no digital signal since yesterday morning and no BBC1 or 2, channells 4 or 5 whatsoever. This has been going on for weeks with the signal being out for days on end and to be honest we are sick of it. We have been told to retune, but even that is impossible with no signal and an unreliable service with no notice or apology. Can we claim a licence fee rebate or who can we complain to.
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Mike Dimmick5:01 PM
Mr R Pierrepont: While there is ongoing engineering work, it should not prevent analogue reception. They are only supposed to reduce power by half (3 dB) if there is any reduction, though some interruptions are possible.
Given what you say, I would check for a broken or disconnected cable somewhere in the system.
The notification of engineering works has been very poor all round, at all sites. Unfortunately Digital UK only publish the information - that they are given by the transmitter owner/operator, Arqiva - a week at a time, so we really don't know how long it's going to go on for.
The TV licence is for owning a TV and therefore you are not entitled to any rebate.
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