Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter which serves 2,690,000 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 Winter Hill (Bolton, England) mast?
Winter Hill transmitter - Winter Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-2 16QAM 2K 3/4 18.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Winter Hill 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-2 16QAM 2K 3/4 18.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Winter Hill transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 22km southeast (139°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 22km southeast (139°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 20 Feb 2020 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C12 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C24 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C40 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C54tv_off | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | ||
| C56tv_off | _local | _local | _local | LPR | |||||
| C57tv_off | GIM | GIM | GIM | GIM | |||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C61 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-12.9dB) 25.7kW | |
| com8 | (-13.4dB) 22.6kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-16dB) 12.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| LL | (-24dB) 2kW | |
| GIM, LM, LPR | (-27dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
Winter Hill Freeview Winter Hill DAB Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 21 July 2013
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Christine1:25 PM
Like all the other posts on this site, my Sony DVD player displayed Up Date last night and still does. I couldn't switch it on or off other than briefly, and when I did manage to switch it on I could get no "Guide" and it soon reverted to a blank screen, although I could view a programme I had recorded last week.
I am a 70 year old female technophobe. HELP!! the technical advice I have read on this site might just as well be in Japanese.
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Christine: Try pressing and holding the Power/Standby button on the front of the machine. Hold it for about 5 seconds and it should come out of Update mode.
Then try pressing the Power button again, momentarily, in order to turn it on.
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Ker-fwap / Zork3:13 PM
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Monday, 22 July 2013
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Chris10:42 AM
Thanks Dave for your suggestion. Alas my machine switches off then on again, going straight to Update. Any other suggestions will be welcome before I go bonkers?
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Chris: When it goes straight to Update having pressed Power/Standby for about 5 seconds (this is a soft reset), does it not respond to a momentarily press of Power/Standby, which in my experience will interrupt its Update and turn it on?
If it doesn't then I would be inclined to unplug the incoming aerial lead followed by a soft reset and leave it doing its Update. This could perhaps take longer than normal so I would go away and leave it to it.
When I set mine to France, as a workaround to the problem, the Updates ran for almost an hour and a half.
A factory reset on these devices can be performed by holding the Stop button and pressing Power/Standby button (both buttons on the front of the machine and not the remote), this being whilst it is powered on and with any DVD/CD disc in the drive removed.
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Chris: I should add that it is my understanding that a factory reset (Stop+Power) can only be performed whilst the machine is on. You might like to try it and report back whether it works whilst apparently stuck in Update mode.
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anthony4:18 PM
More info on this on BBC red button/technology/Freeview failure hits Sony owners.
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
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J Walley9:36 AM
We are unable to receive a television signal in this area, all neighbours are the same. Our signal comes through Winter Hill
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013
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darren 10:32 AM
what has happened i just lost all ITV channels, channel,4 channels channel 5 channels, i was watching and they just went. every TV and PVR / settop box i have in the house has this problem so not the equipment at fault here.
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darren 10:35 AM
just to add i have all other channels so it looks like Winter hill has a Mux issue can it be looked at please
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