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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Saturday, 16 July 2011
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Nick Peel1:09 PM
i used to get channel 12 on freeview using Sutton Coldfield but i no loger get it. I have retuned the tv but it keeps coming up as not available. Please advise have you changed anything?
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KMJ,Derby1:37 PM
Nick Peel: Are you also missing channel 15(Film4) and channel 24(ITV4)? If so the problem is lack of MuxD due to interference or weak signal on C55. If it is only the "Yesterday" channel that is missing does it appear in the 800s? If it does it needs a factory reset to clear the channel list of old data before scanning for channels. If MuxD is missing what is your postcode? - so a check can be made of predicted reception at your location.
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
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robert clarke2:53 PM
Rowley Regis
HD channels lose signal and picture
all other channels are strong.
seems intermitant, waether conditions? or weaker signal?
thanks
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Monday, 18 July 2011
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lan from notts9:15 AM
Nottingham
nick peel
how old is your aerial ? this can be a group b aerial problem that has turned up due vto the ongoing works carried out on s/coldfield transmitter?
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Ollie3:32 PM
Derby
Spent all weekend installing a new Digital HD Freeview Aerial & Freeview HD box & was upset to find out that Sutton Coldfield are not Broadcasting the HD channels. On this site it sates it will be switched on in September. Is there any chance it will be any sooner. Thanks
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Ollie: There is a "preview" HD service transmitted from the Lichfield transmitter on C34. However, you may find the signal levels too low to use at your location.
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Ollie6:04 PM
Derby
@Briantist - Thanks for the reply. I was on my roof for 2 hours yesterday trying to find the Lichfield transmitter and had No Luck :( Guess i will have to wait until Sept. I have 90% signal 100% Quality using the SC transmitter. I used the postcode checker & it says HD was Available in my area. I go out & buy a HD freeview box & Aerial and was left guttered to find no HD.
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Nick7:14 PM
Leicester
I've lost all channels from Mux 2 & A in the last few days (Sutton Coldfield from LE8). Previously I could pick up all freeview channels, most of them with an excellent signal quality. I notice that the power level & rating listed on this site are stated as 'low'. Does anybody know if this has always been the case or have the levels dropped for some reason?
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Dave8:14 PM
Derby
Recurring ITV4 Problems - We have suffered from poor reception regarding the digital transmission of the ITV4, via Freeview, 7-8pm on 3 consecutive evenings: Saturday, Sunday and tonight (16-18 July 2011)
Saturday night's programme was recorded and was virtually unwatchable due to frequent picture/digital break-up. The recorder was fully re-scanned for Sunday's recording, which appeared to bring some improvement, but the interuptions and picture break-up were still unacceptably intrusive.
Checking again around 7:25 pm on the TV (not the recorder) and the picture was hopeless (BBC1/ITV1 were fine). After rescanning all of the channels on the TV and ITV4 could not be found.
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Ollie: Yes, it would seem you are going to have to wait for two months to get Freeview HD.
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