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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 - 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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Monday, 3 January 2022
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Chris.SE3:12 PM
Karl:
That's quite interesting, good bit of experimenting there. The setup is doing well then as your other output with the passive splitter also works well. Don't forget that Local muxes are beamed in the directions of the areas they are intended to serve. So you're doing well to get a signal on C21 as it's the Liverpool mux.
Just as a reminder for others as well (as it tends to get "lost" being a few posts back) -
Full list of Winter Hill channels at https://ukfree.tv/extras/inreplyto/957392
COM8 closure mentioned in https://ukfree.tv/extras/inreplyto/998590
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Thursday, 20 January 2022
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Derek Fyfield3:24 PM
Can't receive any freeview channels. I
have no signl message and black screen.
It has been like that for days now. Why should I pay for tv Licence, when receive any freeview channels.
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Derek Fyfield3:25 PM
Can't receive any freeview channels. I
have no signl message and black screen.
It has been like that for days now. Why should I pay for tv Licence, when receive any freeview channels.
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Derek Fyfield3:26 PM
Can't receive any freeview channels. I
have no signl message and black screen.
It has been like that for days now. Why should I pay for tv Licence, when receive any freeview channels.
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Derek Fyfield3:27 PM
Can't receive any freeview channels. I
have no signl message and black screen.
It has been like that for days now. Why should I pay for tv Licence, when receive any freeview channels.
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Mazbar 5:21 PM
Derek Fyfield: when you called out a aerial man to check your tv aerial and find out why you can not get any signal they told you the problem
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Friday, 21 January 2022
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Chris.SE2:42 AM
Derek Fyfield:
Did you do a simple thing like looking up at your aerial first to see if it was still there pointing in the correct direction or fallen down or pointing at a satellite as it was so old it got damaged in the wind?
Mazbar: Was that you by any chance?
Oh, in response to your previous post, I'd never have guessed (having installed a few aerials in my time) that you'd need all that stock and tools and insurance etc. etc. pretty similar to any self employed electrcian, builder etc.
The remark was slightly tongue in cheek, but some installers charge a "standard price" for "bog standard" installs, so if they are using a lower cost aerial, they make a couple of extra quid.
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Wednesday, 26 January 2022
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Alan Driver4:44 PM
I just retuned my TV (26 Jan 2022 and lost a number of Channels in the process including ITV4, E4, Great TV,. I called called Freeview help centre and was informed that they were doing engineering work on the transmitter (Winter Hill) but she could not give any idea as to how long this was going to take! All she advised me to do was retune my TV each day until I get them back!
I note your website states there is no engineering work at Winter, so I pass this information on to you so your site can be updated unless of course Freeview are fobbing me off
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Chris.SE6:13 PM
Alan Driver:
Hi Alan. Who knows!! Winter Hill is NOT on Freeview's own list (and the checker says there's no Planned Engineering or current outages) but then we know from experience it isn't always correct. Even then, this site has a problem at present and what engineering is being done isn't currently reaching Tx pages and the site owner hasn't been able to sort it (yet?).
Rather than doing what the "bot" said, I'd try manually retuning the correct missing UHF channels until you get them, as auto-tuning will sometimes miss a weaker mux especially as there's some tropo weather conditions around which may upset reception periodically.
In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6, COM7
Winter Hill UHF channels since the 700 MHz clearance are -
The main multiplexes are C32, C34, C35, C29, C31, C37, C55
The Local ones are Local Manchester, Manchester GI on C24 & C27.
Liverpool Local mux on C21, Preston Local mux on C40.
Which Local mux(es) you may get, and possibly COM7 will depend on location.
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