Full Freeview on the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmitter which serves 58,000 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast?
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 12 Nov 11:06 until 12 Nov 15:01. . 
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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 Malvern (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 Malvern 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 Malvern (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 Malvern transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km northeast (36°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km northeast (35°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Malvern (Worcestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -BBCB | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C68 | 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 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Friday, 12 July 2019
MikeP
10:08 AM
10:08 AM
Nigel :
It is not a problem with the transmitter. True Entertainment has been moved onto the local multiplexes where they are available. Malvern does not transmit any local services at all. The move was on behalf of the service owner, Sony.
The owner of this site has not yet had an aopportunity to update the site due to all the changes currently being made to all the over 1100 transmitters around the UK. If you want the up-to-date UHF channekl usage, go to the Digital UK Coverage Checker at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…er/, put in your full post code and house name/number, select Detailed View and press Go. Scroll down the listings to see the details for your chosen transmitter.
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Thursday, 31 October 2019
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Dag Smith3:28 PM
We have experienced of BBC1 and BBC2 not available on the TV lately - today before 12.15 pm - and after some time will revive without doing nothing. Is it due to work you are working on the channel?
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Friday, 1 November 2019
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Chris.SE12:00 AM
Dag Smith:
I'm not sure that you've clearly understood the replies to your previous posts - for a start, they are not automated!
Secondly, this site and it's regular contributors are NOT responsible for the transmitters, broadcasters or any changes. It's an independent help site.
To answer your query, you need to refer to the official Freeview site page Planned engineering works | Freeview where you will find there is no Planned Engineering work at the Malvern Transmitter.
For specific queries about BBC services, see Advice about receiving TV and radio | RTIS or Welcome to BBC Reception Advice | Help receiving TV and radio
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Chris.SE12:50 AM
Dag Smith:
Having now been able to do some further checks for your postcode, you may not be getting your signals from Malvern but from Sutton Coldfield, and if so, there is Planned Engineering there (see https://www.freeview.co.u…rks) with "Possible service interruptions".
If your aerial is pointing slightly West of South (197degrees) with the rods vertical - that's Malvern, OR is it pointing slightly North of NW (35deg.) with the rods horizontal - that's Sutton Coldfield.
In any event your best transmitter is predicted to be Sutton Coldfield.
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Monday, 30 December 2019
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Mrs Nina Haines11:15 AM
No channels whatsoever. Tried retuning.
No channels whatsoever! What is happening?
Poor service!
Nina Haines
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Nina haines11:19 AM
Worcester
Wr6 6dl nothing no channels whatsoever!
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Nina's: ...
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Chris.SE2:00 PM
Nina haines:
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It is currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
It is predicted to continue for a couple more days, and you are advise NOT to retune as you will likely lose the correct tuning that you had. The "propagation" can be very frequency dependent, and it can only affected one frequency or several, but it can/will be different for others.
People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters are making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception! So it's no surprise that people wonder what is going on and think there is a transmitter problem.
For those that have retuned and lost correct tuning, you will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst the unusual propagation continues. If you are able to do a manual tune for the correct UHF channels, you may still receive interference or the wrong programmes.
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Wednesday, 14 February 2024
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Kevin Poole 11:34 AM
Iosing a quarter of the Channels in Dine's Green,
Worcester.
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Chris.SE1:38 PM
Kevin Poole :
As per the post immediately before yours, the transmitter is currently having Planned Engineering so occasional interruption to some services is to be expected.
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Tuesday, 14 May 2024
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