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 withheldSaturday, 7 November 2015
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Glenn1:37 PM
Is there an update re atmospheric conditions affecting Wrekin transmitter + others? Like Amada I live in Telford and all multiplex PSB2 are affected to the point of being unwatchable since November 1st 2015.
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Monday, 9 November 2015
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June Jarman9:20 PM
Whitchurch
We are in SY13 2HJ............Higher Heath, Whitchurch,
Pic breaking up on ITV and ch4 and others, BBC1 and 2 are ok.
Are there problems tonight? or might be our aerial moved in the wind?
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June's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Glenn9:29 PM
June Jarman: Hi June I'm in Telford TF16RH and getting same problem on all D3 + D4 PSB2 multiplex. I don't think the wind has been any stronger than previous. I hope we get a response from freeview.
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Paul9:46 PM
I am in Oswestry, a self employed tv engineer, receiving many calls about poor / no reception of all programmes on channel 23, PSB2 - D3 D4, started around 3pm and now unwatchable, signal strength and quality perfect- work that out!! Think a relay problem between sutton Coldfield and the Wrekin.
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Sam9:46 PM
Oswestry
Hi June. Me and my granddad have hadthe same problem and my neighbours have to. So its not just you
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Sam's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
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MikeP12:03 PM
Trowbridge
As has stated here previously, atmospheric effects like temperature inversion will cause signal recpetion problems. These effects often occur at this time of year and are particularly noticable when there is high pressure over parts of the UK. Such effects have been reported recently and there is nothing anyone can do about this perfectly natural phenomenon. In the days of analogue TV we had serious picture disturbances and with digital TV it disturbs the signal so it cannot be prooperly decoded to produce a picture.
Do NOT try to retune your equipment.
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Thursday, 12 November 2015
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Dot5:05 PM
No sound on any channels except BBC and have had poor picture quality for most of this week. Actually lostall non BBC channels earlier this week.
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Friday, 13 November 2015
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Suefisher1:00 PM
Are there problems with the Wrekin transmitter, 13/11/15, picture breakup on itv , channel4 channel5 itv4. Bbc and hd fine, thanks.
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Sunday, 22 November 2015
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Manton Saunders10:37 PM
Hi can you please give a date when Telford will recieve bbc local news in hd. Many thanks Manton Saunders
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Monday, 23 November 2015
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Caroline Yull11:17 AM
Bridgnorth
Myself and my neighbour have lost all itv channels and free view channels, could you please help as I do not know who to contact over these issues
Many thanks
Caroline Yull
My post code is WV16 6DU
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