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 05/06/2023 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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Wednesday, 24 July 2013
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Julie loader10:58 AM
darren : I've lost all channels apart from BBC channels, been losing them on and off for days but today is far, far worse.
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darren 10:59 AM
Runcorn
had to do a retune and they came back which is great, still weird that they went in the first place
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Friday, 26 July 2013
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Maryam 6:40 PM
Can anyone tell me a good booster to get for recieving bbc channels from the Winter Hill point?
Thanks
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jb388:39 PM
Maryam: Although a booster can on many occasions help provide more stable reception it really depends on why a person doesnt have it in the first place, this only being revealed by carrying out a signal test on each of the six (on main stations only) multiplex transmitters being used by the station.
The reason for the test is to determine if "both" signal strength and quality are seen as being low, or that the strength is seen as being reasonably stable but the quality is observed to be diving up and down, sometimes to zero.
Boosters will always help in the case of the former mentioned, but NOT in the latter as poor and erratic quality cannot be compensated for nomatter how much a signal is boosted.
The channels used for signal tests of this sort being as follows, these representing the six mux transmitters.
BBC1 / ITV1 / any HD / (10) ITV3 / (11) Pick TV / (15) Film 4.
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Saturday, 27 July 2013
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Maryam Roohipour11:38 AM
Ok. So I need to check if I can get these channels (signal is low) before I purchase one?
How can you check individual channels?
Sorry for all these questions & thanks :)
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Monday, 29 July 2013
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Terry Middleton8:19 AM
Hi I cant tune any tv stations in the Northwest of England ( Granada region ) are there any problems. I have done a manual and automatic search and cant get any channels. Anybody any ideas.
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john8:48 AM
Terry Middleton:
Could be a faulty tuner or aerial, whats the postcode?
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Damian3:09 PM
Neston
Hi Brian, wonder if you can help with a visualisation.
We live in an area served by both winter hill and moel y parc . We are on the wirral . We are in the unfortunate position that we are literally directly between the two transmitters meaning that we receive both strongly. However we do not care for welsh variations. Almost all our relatively new receiving equipment will not reallocate channels by region /tranmission group. Thus we are left to manually tune all the time or I have to configure a complex st of notch filters to remove the welsh tranmission( further added to by store ton Wales).
Most aerials have acceptance angles between 33 and 20 odd degrees. I wondered if you could over lay a chord between moel and winter hill with 30 degree radiating pattern centred on the chord , that was the intersection of coverage between the two transmitters indicating the total coverage area subject to the same issue. Ultimately I like to submit to arqiva the issue that it creates.
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Tuesday, 30 July 2013
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Fred Hughson 8:08 PM
Our digital channels were fine until July when the powers that be decided to mess about with the system ,
Now all we have got is bbc 1 2 we have to retune in order to get any other station every time ,what has
Happend ? The Ariel is located on the back of the house fixed at gutter level and facing the direction it has always been. !
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013
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Colin10:27 AM
My Sony HXD790 PVR failed again yesterday with the same problems that most people were having just over a week ago.
i.e. faulty EPG and black screen on stations. It was stuck in update mode this morning. Switching off and on again did not fix the problems.
It might just be something at Winter Hill this time, since not so many people are complaining about it.
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