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.
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 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
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 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)
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?
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 |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 25 March 2015
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Frederick Foulkes 12:00 AM
I Have periods of very poor tv reception even on bbc one and itv one everyone else's aerial is pointing towards the Wrekin ours is pointing northwards. We live at tf93bh no 39 we live beside the water tower which has a lot of phone masts on top could this be the problem
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jb389:01 AM
Frederick Foulkes : A study of your area is more inclined to suggest that your aerial has been installed facing towards the Winter Hill transmitter (@ 50miles / 359degrees) in order to received BBC North West and ITV Granada regional news services, rather than the BBC West Midlands and ITV Central West micro region from The Wrekin transmitter @ 16 miles / 187 degrees.
Another aspect of reception from Winter Hill being that it transmits the relatively new COM7 HD transmissions whereas the Wrekin does not.
Although water towers can cause an element of signal blocking if located "directly" in line with the signal path from the transmitter, and especially if the receiving aerial is relatively close to the tower, but you should try a test to ascertain if any signal is being received from the The Wrekin on the reverse of your aerial, as its only 6 degrees or so out.
This can be done if your TV or box offers a "manual tune" facility rather than just auto-tune, the procedure being to select manual tune followed by entering or selecting C26 (The Wrekins BBC1) but stopping at this point, do "not" press scan, because if any evidence of a signal is being received, the strength and quality of will appear in the indicator bars. If a signal is being received, it might then be worth swinging your aerial around to face towards The Wrekin.
By the way, I feel that you can discount the masts referred to as being responsible for your problem.
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jb389:51 AM
Frederick Foulkes : In addition to that said. As reception in your area is indicated as being good from both Winter Hill and The Wrekin, and it might possibly be the case that your aerial is simply facing in the wrong direction for the Mux channels stored in your TV or box, therefore undermentioned is a list of the Mux channels used by both stations, this will enable you to check this out by carrying out a signal test on each of the programmes in question.
Winter Hill:
50 (BBC1) / 59 (ITV1) / 54 (HD service) / 58 (10-ITV3 etc) / 49 (11-Pick TV etc) / 55 (18-4Music)
31 (63 - Community on COM7)
The Wrekin:
26 (BBC1) / 23 (ITV1) / 30 (HD service) / 41 (10-ITV3 etc) / 44 (11-Pick TV etc) / 47 (18- 4Music)
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Sunday, 30 August 2015
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Simon10:52 PM
I have tried a full reset now several times. All channels are satisfactory except those from the highest frequency mux (682mhz) C47 com 6, which covers Yesterday, Aljazeera and Russia today plus a few more I rarely watch. These signals are either very blockie or so poor that they often just display the 'no signal' logo.
According to the field strength meter built into the box this mux is only a couple of percent below the other two lo power muxes so why is reception either very bad or sometmes non existant, just from this mux.
Post code is SY5 5AN
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Simon10:53 PM
Shrewsbury
I have tried a full reset now several times. All channels are satisfactory except those from the highest frequency mux (682mhz) C47 com 6, which covers Yesterday, Aljazeera and Russia today plus a few more I rarely watch. These signals are either very blockie or so poor that they often just display the 'no signal' logo.
According to the field strength meter built into the box this mux is only a couple of percent below the other two lo power muxes so why is reception either very bad or sometmes non existant, just from this mux.
Post code is SY3 5AN
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Saturday, 24 October 2015
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Jane williams8:29 AM
When will the Wrekin transmitter be upgrading to full freeview please. I would like to watch Big Centre tv channel 8 and it's not on the Wrekin at the moment. Ty Jane
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Jane williams: Basically, this isn't going to happen. The Freeview Local TV services are on dedicated "beams" that restrict the broadcast area to deliberately small areas. The Birmingam service is broadcast only from two masts: to the south west of Sutton Coldfield and to the west of Brierley Hill.
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pat webb1:19 PM
Wolverhampton
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Are there any com7 programmes available from the telford and wrekin transmitter.
In this part of Wolverhampton we don't seem to be able to receive from sutton coldfield, although we haven't tried
for a few years, do you think a signal could be received now.
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Wednesday, 4 November 2015
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Amanda1:34 PM
Telford
I have had no signal for multiplex PSB2 channels since Monday. Is there a problem due to the fog/weather ?
I did lose the BBC channels too but they came back yesterday.
Still no ITV CH4 CH5 etc and I have re scanned, just showing as no signal !
Thanks for any help.
Amanda
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Thursday, 5 November 2015
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MikeP12:47 PM
Trowbridge
Amanda:
It has been suggested that the recent warm days have given rise to atmospheric conditions that can disrupt TV reception. As there are many similar reports from around the southern part of the UK, that would seem to be quite likely. Do NOT retune your TV set under such situation.
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