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.
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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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Sunday, 8 May 2011
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andy9:52 PM
have lost most channels today and yesterday only have itv1 and channel 4 any ideas whats going on in the bromsgrove area
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Mike Dimmick10:37 PM
Mike Fisher: Sounds like you have a box which stores the version on the first frequency it finds, not the best version. The rating on Digital UK's postcode checker for Ridge Hill is higher, but that's if your aerial is pointing at the transmitter, not away from it!
You'll have to delete the channels and manually tune on C34, if you're certain that the aerial points to Bromsgrove.
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Mike Dimmick10:42 PM
andy: Frequently people have overdone their efforts to receive the low-power digital signals before switchover, particularly where they were in the analogue coverage area but not in an area covered by the digital radiation pattern. After switchover, when transmissions move to the main antenna, they find that signals are too large.
If you have a booster or amplifier, you probably don't need it. Try removing it. If you don't have one or that doesn't help, you might need to add an attenuator if you're quite close to the transmitter.
I see you had a new aerial fitted in November - did you get a guarantee with it? Can you get the fitter back in to adjust the system?
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andy11:12 PM
have retuned to channel 34 and only found 10 programmes but have not yet removed the amplifer
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Monday, 9 May 2011
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andy5:49 PM
removed the amplifer today rescanned and found all the freeview channels many thanks mike dimmick for the info
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Sunday, 22 May 2011
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Mike Fisher6:38 PM
sorry me again in Droitwich aerial set for Bromsgrove.
I have today purchased a new tv and when setting up it gave me a choice of region , gloucester or west midlands. I chose west midlands and it tuned channels
23-24-26-33-34.
This tv seems to be out of sync with all my other tvs
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Mike Fisher: I'm not really sure what you mean by "out of sync".
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Monday, 23 May 2011
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mike fisher7:44 PM
If I retune the new tv to gloucester region all the tvs are talking etc. at the same time, if I tune the new one to west midlands it's sound and pictures are a second or so in advance of the rest.
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011
mike fisher: Yes, this will happen, this is because of the use of different multiplexing equipment for the different regions. All digital transmission systems require buffering, and so you can get this effect.
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011
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alan barton5:32 PM
I am having real problems with pixilating, picture freeze and break up, more on ITV than BBC but all channels are affected.
I am getting my TV fromBT Vision
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