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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 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 Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) mast?

Sutton Coldfield transmitter - Sutton Coldfield 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 Sutton Coldfield 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
C43 (650.0MHz)433mDTG-200,000W
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
C46 (674.0MHz)433mDTG-200,000W
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
C40+ (626.2MHz)433mDTG-200,000W
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 max
C42 (642.0MHz)433mDTG-8200,000W
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 max
C45 (666.0MHz)433mDTG-8200,000W
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 max
C39+ (618.2MHz)433mDTG-8200,000W
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

LB
 H -13dB
C48 (690.0MHz)433mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 31st October 2014: 7 Big Centre TV,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

Are there any self-help relays?

Burton (shobnall)Transposer1 km W Burton-on-Trent60 homes
CoalvilleTransposer18 km NW Leicester600 homes
SolihullTransposerLand Rover building400 homes

How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Mar 2018
VHFB E TB E TB E TB E K TW T
C4BBCtvwaves
C33com7
C35com8
C36LOCAL2
C39+ArqBArqB
C40BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves+BBCBBBCB
C42SDNSDN
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C45ArqAArqA
C46BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4
C48_local
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C51tv_offLB
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off

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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 1000kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 200kW
com7(-10.5dB) 89.2kW
com8(-10.7dB) 86kW
LB(-20dB) 10kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-21dB) 8kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield 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. Sutton Coldfield 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.

Comments
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
P
Peter Cook
5:07 PM

Sussex Customer, from Peter Cook. Answer seems to be if you want to watch BBC2, set it up to record before hand, let it start to record, then go into the record list and play from the beginning, BBC2 seems to record o.k.

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Peter Cook's 3 posts GB flag
Friday, 18 March 2011
S
Sussex Customer
9:04 PM

@ Peter Cook

Problem resolved itself - if only they'd let us know, then we'd not have worried something was wrong with out TV !!

Thanks for your help and hope someone takes note that some customer relations would have been nice i.e. a warning.

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Sussex Customer's 3 posts GB flag
Sunday, 20 March 2011
M
Matt
8:03 PM

Film 4, 4 music... have all disappeared. I live in Birmingham

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V
Viru
9:16 PM

Hi

I installed Freeview box recently. But am not getting Multiplex C&D channels. What is the procedure to get the same?

Thanks in advance

Rds
Viru

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josie
10:20 PM
Hove

I have 2 HD ready tv's...the one downstairs in lounge has intergated freeview and keeps losing ITV channels..and when they are there..very pixillated. The TV on 2nd floor with seperate Freeview box has no problems at all. Both run off the same roof aerial. Sometimes the tv in lounge decides to cut out or pixillate BBC progs. There are no other appliances connected to it, and none near it. This seems to happen for about 2 weeks every 2 or 3 months.
I am in the BN3 area of Brighton/Hove.
Any hints for damsel in distress???

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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
F
FlipC
11:51 AM

@Viru - Have you tried a manual installation of those two muxes? If you set to Frequency 52 or 55 does your box allow you to see the signal strength?

If you're not getting either are you using a feeder transmitter that isn't broadcasting them yet?

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FlipC
11:56 AM

@Josie - Running two receptors from one aerial can often lead to a poor signal. Have you tried plugging the 2nd floor box into the TV in your lounge and seeing if you get the same problem?

If so then it's probably the aerial connection; if not then the box may simply have a better tuner than the TV.

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FlipC's 2 posts GB flag
Thursday, 24 March 2011
W
wally
4:05 PM
Sutton Coldfield

hi i have no hd channels on my freeview hd tuner tv, can not get channel 51

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andy
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

7:53 PM
Chester

Wally. Your TV aerial may not cover the frequency used for HD transmissions, which actually come from Lichfield at the moment, because it's a lower frequency and lower power than the group used by other transmissions from Sutton Coldfield. At switchover, in September, they will move to Sutton Coldfield, on BBC 2's analogue channel 40

Another good indicator is whether you get C5 analogue reliably, because this is on a lower frequency channel 37 which is transmitted from Lichfield

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Sunday, 27 March 2011
R
Roy Trubshaw
10:41 AM
Wolverhampton

WV6 7BS

For the last few days MUX2 has completely vanished. All other MUXes (MUXen?) are being received without problems.

Other than this site (brilliant btw) I can find no mention of any problems or engineering works.

Currently I've manually retuned (where the freeview box allows) to the Wrekin E equivalent MUX (ch49) but the quality is a bit variable - not surprising really as it is coming in through the back of the aerial.

Does anyone know if this actually is a transmitter problem, or a reception problem or something else.

Thanks.

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