Full Freeview on the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 30,000 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 Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) mast?
Bromsgrove transmitter - Bromsgrove transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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 Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, 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 Bromsgrove 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 Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, 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 Bromsgrove transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 18km northeast (41°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 18km northeast (40°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Bromsgrove (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | K T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C23 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C26 | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C29 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C41 | +SDN | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB |
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 1-4 | 2.8kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-8.5dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux D* | (-17.5dB) 50W | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-20.5dB) 25W |
Local transmitter maps
Bromsgrove Freeview Bromsgrove DAB Bromsgrove TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Bromsgrove transmitter area
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Saturday, 9 April 2011
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P J Bulman8:23 AM
Droitwich
Droitwich WR9 8AH Bromsgrove transmitter.
Have retuned several times both as first time setup and replace all channels.
After retuning BBC1,2 etc are correctly received as programmes 1,2 etc on Ch26. After about 30 secs the receiver changes by itself to Ch41 so that programmes 1,2 etc no longer get a signal. BBC1 is on 820 and BBC2 on 815 where Ch 26 is still to be found.
It is a Labgear FV300 set top box.
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P J Bulman5:53 PM
Thank you Brian. Well I had tried that but have done it once more, and to be quite sure I disconnected an turned off the VCR. It is just the same: ie after a scan with a clean settop box it correctly assigns BBC1,2 etc to programmes 1,2 on Ch26. After about 30 sec this jumps to Ch41 with no signal. BBC2 is there OK on 815 but I have to do a manual scan to get BBC1 which then is added as 820, both on CH26. BBC301 is added at the same time. Is this likely to be corrected on 20 April or is it a problem with the settop box?
It is no great difficulty for 2 weeks now I know how to work around it, but clearly something is wrong!
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Mike Fisher9:41 PM
I have a smilar problem that I get a signal from Bromsgrove and weaker one from Sutton Coldfield. If I auto tune I have to stop it half way through tuning so that it does not replace the channels from Bromgrove with the ones from Sutton. You could try manually tuning just the channels from Bromsgrove.
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Jim Hall.10:07 PM
Kidderminster
I have noticed since the retune on the 6th April the digital singal is down, also Bbc 2 analogue as gone.
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Sunday, 10 April 2011
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P J Bulman9:59 PM
Thank you Mike Fisher for the suggestion.
Regrettably, I tried cleaning it out (scanning with the aerial disconnected) and then manually scanned Chs 26,23 etc. The behaviour was the same; ie it started with the correct assignments for BBC1,2 etc on Ch26 and after about 30 sec reassigned them to Ch41 with no signals. It is clearly getting some assigment instructions from Sutton Coldfield, perhaps relayed by Bromsgrove, as the Channels shown are those from Sutton. How can this be stopped? Is there in fact a hidden command channel relayed from Bromsgrove?
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Monday, 11 April 2011
P J Bulman: It is most likely a fault with the set-top box.
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Jim Hall: BBC TWO analogue has gone, that is the first part of switchover.
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Mr J T Stuart2:09 PM
If this is a Humax PVR then it is a known problem. I have had the problem since moving to Bromsgrove. It is well documented on the web and you have to follow these instructions. Go into Favourites and select all channels tv. Delete them. Select all radio stations and delete them. Do a manual tune and only download the channels ie 23 which give a 100* signal quality. Save them and the problem is solved.
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Mike Fisher7:24 PM
Hi Mr MJT
You are correct the problem I suggesting the cure. Came about from my problems with a Humax TV. I had to do a complete default factory reset and tune in the individual channels.
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