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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?

The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C26 (514.0MHz)455mDTG-20,000W
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
 H max
C23 (490.0MHz)455mDTG-20,000W
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
 H max
C30- (545.8MHz)455mDTG-20,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C41+ (634.2MHz)455mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C44 (658.0MHz)455mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C47 (682.0MHz)455mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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 a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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 The Wrekin transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-1327 Feb 2018
A K TA K TA K TW TK T
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C26BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCABBCA
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C30-BBCBBBCB
C33BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C35C5wavesC5waves
C41+SDNSDN
C44ArqAArqA
C47ArqBArqB
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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin 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. The Wrekin 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
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NickA
10:07 AM

Steve - up the Trefonen Road, good line of sight and BBC1 comes in at high 80s % signal strength.

Noticed some of muxes on Wrekin still low power till Sept upgrade - any relevance?

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Mike Dimmick
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12:30 PM

NickA: The *commercial* muxes - SDN, ArqA and ArqB - remain on pre-switchover channels at pre-switchover power levels. The HD multiplex has launched at full power and on its final channel.

If BBC One is working reliably, if your equipment is Freeview HD-capable, you should get reliable HD channels (but do see Single Frequency Interference).

"HD Ready" does not mean it can receive Freeview HD signals. It means that it can handle HD-format pictures supplied by another box. Freeview HD uses a very new transmission standard only completed in mid-2009. You must look for the Freeview HD logo.

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Steve
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5:12 PM
Wrexham

NickA - so do you need a HD tuner?

There are 3 Trefonen Roads listed - all Oswestry area!

I get 100% on BBC1 etc. - but what that means may vary. The weak signals do not convert properly until other areas switch off analogue, freeing frequencies for re-use.

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Thursday, 28 April 2011
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Mr Costa Constantinou
9:35 AM

I am able to get all the digital channels from the Wrekin transmitter except those HD channels on channel 30. I have a new tv with built on FreeviewHD. I contacted Digitaluk who told me there is no high definition signal from the Wrekin transmitter yet -can you tell me when this will start. Thanks.

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Steve
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10:33 AM
Wrexham

When did you ask? I thought it was supposed to start on Weds 20/4?

You might check with the local TV shops?

Or the Spar/C&C?

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paul lowe
11:07 AM
Leicester

postcode le2 7qg all bbc 1 2 3 4 channels are ok itv 1 2 3 4 channls 4 5 esp at night are unwatchable 5 star 5usa are worse cannot pickup any HD channels at all my analogue picture is great have retuned many times auto and manually

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Mike Dimmick
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3:51 PM

Mr Costa Constantinou, Steve: I would be astonished if HD had not started, though I haven't seen anyone positively confirming that it has.

Freeview.co.uk's HD coverage checker seems to be pulling the information from the first transmitter reported by Digital UK's postcode checker. This seems to be reporting transmitters in a random order, so for Steve - because DUK give the results for Llangollen first - it's telling me that he can't get HD. Nonsense, the next transmitter (Cefn Mawr) is showing as 100%, and The Wrekin as 92%.

It seems to have trouble where the transmitter it considered most likely for analogue signals has now switched over. All the four transmitters shown for Steve are shown as 'Alternative Transmitter'.

If DUK's phone staff are using the same data - which they probably are - you can't rely on it.

Mr Costa Constantinou: can you provide the TV's make and model number?

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Mike Dimmick
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4:00 PM

Paul Lowe: The predictions for Multiplex 2, A and D from Sutton Coldfield are indeed poor, most likely due to clashes with Winter Hill for Mux D and Emley Moor for Mux 2 and A. The Lichfield transmitter does provide HD services but they are weak, out-of-group, and aimed into Birmingham.

You could alternatively be using Waltham for East Midlands news services. If you are, you would have had to retune on the 30th of March and 13th of April to keep these services, as they moved frequencies. If your aerial is the wrong type - a Group C/D rather than a wideband - the gain at the new frequencies could be poorer than at the old frequencies. For a good-quality wideband it should be better.

Waltham does not yet broadcast HD services - it will start to do so from switchover on the 31st of August.

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Steve
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5:34 PM
Wrexham

Just to confuse things; I (Steve) certainly can't get Freeview coz. I have no tuner and I think ordinary tuners will not list HD channels at all?

And the postcode shown earlier is not mine but that of a recent poster who lives nearby, but in the deep narrow Dee Valley. He already knows that databases are unreliable - his actual number+postcode is unlisted!

Now changed to my own.

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Gary
6:07 PM

Since the switch over I have lost all channels. My TV has Freeview and so does the DVD recorder but nothing. The guy at currys says I should factory reset the TV or it may be a problem with the TV. It is only 3 years
old.

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