Freeview Light on the Leek (Staffordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Leek (Staffordshire, England) transmitter which serves 14,000 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 Leek (Staffordshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Leek (Staffordshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Leek 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C25 (506.0MHz) | 309m | DTG- | 200W |
 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 | V max | C22 (482.0MHz) | 309m | DTG- | 200W |
 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C28 (530.0MHz) | 309m | DTG- | 200W |
 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Leek (Staffordshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Leek transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 70km south (174°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 70km south (174°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Leek (Staffordshire, 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 | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C32 | 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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200W |
Local transmitter maps
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Thursday, 22 September 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
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Graham Stone3:31 PM
Leek
location ST13 8LQ - Leek.
Hi since the Digital switchover, while I can receive a signal I have been having a problem getting it to all rooms in my house.
situation is this:
I still have a loft aerial - I know I need one on the roof but that will have to waiot a while.
The cable from the aerial comes into my Living room and goes through a signal amplifier - shouldn't be needed but it also acts as a splitter.
one output goes to the main TV, which works fine. another output goes back into the wall into the loft and is then split to feed kitchen and bedroom.
Two Problems:
1. TVs in these other two rooms will not find all channels, and will not 'lock on' to allow you to watch those they have found. Is the answer to split the signal in the loft or might it just be bad cabling somewhere - though there was never a problem with analogue.
2. I have 3 TIVOs in the living room, they have RF out which allowed them to be viewed in Kitchen/bedroom by putting 'in line' with analogue TV signal - all use SCART to main TV. doing this with the Digital signal caused interference on analoge and loss of digital channels. RF channels were: 39, 60, 63. the 'Free RF' link indicateds that only 64,65 and 66 are 'free' on our transmitter, which if I change to these causes interference between all 3 ! Does Freeview really use up all other available channels ?
Any help/advice much appreciated - I WILL get a rooftop aerial, honest !
Graham
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
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fiona1:22 PM
Why cannot my house recieve a review signal, but my neighbours can? Does it matter because there is a sky dish?
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jb385:46 PM
fiona: A Sky dish has no connection with Freeview and as such cannot affect it, do you know for sure that your neighbours actually receive Freeview and that its not Freesat?
Only a post code would indicate your reception possibilities.
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Friday, 3 February 2012
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alan bird3:03 PM
Leek
would i receive more channels on freeview or freesat ? or are they both the same
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Alan Bird: They are not the same. See this page for a comparison:
Compare Freeview and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Some channels are on the full Freeview service but not on Freesat. If you receive your TV only from the transmitter in Leek, then you will not get the full range of Freeview channels.
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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Live in Leek is my TV caput as it went off at about 10a.m. and I got no signal on screen & no sound or picture on screen today 4th April 2012.Not on cable or satellite Is there a problem because of bad weather or is my new TV
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Mike Dimmick12:03 PM
Linda Dale: The BBC's reception page at BBC - Reception problems is showing a fault currently exists, reported at 9:58am. This site only scrapes that page every few hours so hasn't updated the top of the page yet.
Usually this is down to power supply faults at the transmitter, or a problem at an upstream transmitter (since Leek just rebroadcasts what it receives off-air from Sutton Coldfield). No fault is shown at Sutton Coldfield.
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mike caswell12:37 PM
Leek
no signal from leek transmitter.
problem started this morning.
had no problems till today.
aerial on roof.
no problems with sky.
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Thanks for all your helpful replies concerning Leek transmitter I found the BBC link with the fault mentioned at Leek transmitter after I had posted comment earlier At least not a problem with TV.Hopefully it will be back on soon - never mind I have i player
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