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The symbol shows the location of the Tenbury Wells (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 2,300 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Tenbury Wells (Worcestershire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Tenbury Wells 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C41- (633.8MHz)127mDTG-3W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 19 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)127mDTG-3W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)127mDTG-3W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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The Tenbury Wells (Worcestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Tenbury Wells transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 51km east-northeast (70°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 50km east-northeast (69°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Tenbury Wells (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Mar 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C47BBCB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-BBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 14W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2.8W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Tenbury Wells was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

9:23 AM

TENBURY WELLS transmitter - 8 February 2011: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Channel 4. Digital services - N/A [DUK]

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Monday, 28 February 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:19 AM

TENBURY WELLS transmitter - Over the next week Tenbury Wells relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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Thursday, 3 March 2011
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:18 AM

TENBURY WELLS transmitter - 3 March 2011: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Channel 4. Digital services - N/A [DUK] Over the next week Tenbury Wells relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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Monday, 28 May 2012
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COLIN DRINKWATER
12:43 PM
Tenbury Wells

what freeview channels should i be able to receive in Tenbury wells from the Tenbury Wells transmitter? At present I can get BBC1, 2, 3 AND 4, ITV1, ITV1+1, ITV2, CHANNEL 4, CHANNEL 4+1, CHANNEL 5, BBC NEWS AND BBC PARLIAMENT, AND THE RABBITS. I DO NOT HAVE ITV3,ITV4, DAVE ETC. SHOULD I BE ABLE TO GET THESE NOW??
MANY THANKS!



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Dave Lindsay
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12:54 PM

Colin Drinkwater: Those you have are those broadcast by the Tenbury Wells transmitter.

You "may" be able to receive from Sutton Coldfield at your location to give you the full complement of Freeview channels.

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Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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P Smith
3:46 PM
Tenbury Wells

Why do you not supply more Freeview channels in this area?I have just moved here and can now not get Yesterday,several ITV channels,RT and 5 USA.I am missing several programmes/series I was following.

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Mark Fletcher
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7:39 PM
Lytham St. Annes

P Smith.Tenbury Wells.That is because Tenbury Wells is a freeview lite relay mast,broadcasting the public service multiplexes BBCA,D3+4 and if you have the right equipment BBCB (HD) broadcasts.So unless you are able to receive the main Sutton Coldfield transmitter in your locality,the Tenbury Wells relay will not at extra cost broadcast the commercial multiplexes SDN,ArqA and ArqB,so you will most likely not be watching Yesterday,ITV2+1,ITV3,ITV4,5USA,etc !

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Sunday, 1 July 2012
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P Smith
11:14 AM
Tenbury Wells

That is a pity because the channel availability is pathetic.Every one of my favourite channels is unavailable yet ones which carry endless tripe are available.

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Monday, 18 March 2013
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Bernard Casken
8:12 AM

Just had an offer from Talk talk for their set top box which uses Freeview, sadly having had Freesat and the vast choice of channels the offer is not worth taking.
Surely we have a national broadcasting service in this country so why is it that there is such a variance in the channels provided?

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Dave Lindsay
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11:02 AM

Bernard Casken: The "national" broadcasters in the UK are known as "Public Service Broadcasters". These are available from Tenbury Wells transmitter, as they are available from all other TV transmitters.

It is the Commercial broadcasters that don't have a "Public Service" obligation that get to pick and choose which transmitters they wish to pay to use. See here for an explanation:

Londonderry (Northern Ireland) digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

What you might like to do is assess whether you may be able to receive from a full-service transmitter such as Sutton Coldfield.

The fact that you are receiving from the Tenbury Wells relay does not necessarily mean that reception from the main station (Sutton Coldfield) is out of the question. After all, in the days of analogue you would only have been able to receive four channels irrespective of which transmitter you used. It may be that Tenbury Wells provided the better signal of the two, which is why it was chosen.

Today, however, the question may be one of whether you can receive from Sutton Coldfield at all. If so, then you may wish to have an aerial installed for it.

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