Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter._______
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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.
Which Freeview channels does the The Wrekin 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 31 January 2021
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Chris.SE9:57 PM
David Winterbottom:
The Wrekin transmitter was on Planned Engineering w/c 18th January with "Possible weak signal". If you happened to retune when you had no signal because of that (or if your set auto-retuned - if it does, turn that off, it's more trouble than it's worth) then this will likely just clear the correct tuning. You then have to repeat a retune when signals are back to normal.
Try a manual retune on UHF C44 which is the one for COM5.
The Wrekin's UHF channels are C26, C23, C30, C41, C44, C47 that's in the multiplex order PSBs1-3, COMs 4-6.
If you can't manual tune, then do an automatic tune.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which programmes are on which multiplex.
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Thursday, 17 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:33 PM
3:33 PM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 15 Jun 05:15 until 15 Jun 08:10. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 28 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
9:11 AM
9:11 AM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 28 Nov 06:12. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
12:13 PM
12:13 PM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 28 Nov 06:12 until 28 Nov 10:37. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 17 July 2022
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Mr T Nock5:30 PM
Why no new Freeview channel order since 30 June 2022 to enable manual tuning for Wrekin and Winter Hill Transmitters
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Monday, 19 December 2022
Transmitter engineering
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 19 Dec 09:42. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 19 Dec 09:42 until 19 Dec 13:28. . [BBC]
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Friday, 10 March 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:08 AM
11:08 AM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 10 Mar 06:00. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
THE WREKIN transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 10 Mar 06:00 until 10 Mar 08:19. . [BBC]
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