Full Freeview on the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter which serves 11,000 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 Saddleworth (Oldham, 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 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Saddleworth (Oldham, 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 Saddleworth 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 Saddleworth (Oldham, 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 Saddleworth transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 20km west-southwest (248°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 20km west-southwest (248°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | |||
| C39 | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C41 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C48 | -ArqB | -ArqB | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C51tv_off | -SDN | -SDN | -SDN | SDN | |||||
| C52tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +ArqA | +ArqA | +ArqA |
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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
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* | (-17dB) 40W |
Local transmitter maps
Saddleworth Freeview Saddleworth 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, 15 April 2013
Adrian: If you are attempting to tune to Winter Hill then obviously your aerial may require turning as well as switching it from vertical polarisation to horizontal polarisation.
The PSB channels of Moel-y-Parc and Saddleworth are the same, albeit that they use opposite polarisation.
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Dave Lindsay: In fact, all six channels are the same from both transmitters, albeit that Moel-y-Parc's COMs are half power to its PSBs.
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Adrian3:11 PM
Dave, I trust when you mean reversing the polarity you mean flipping it 90 degrees?
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Adrian: Yes.
For Saddleworth it should be vertical and for Winter Hill it should be horizontal:
http://farm5.static.flick….gif
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Adrian3:49 PM
Dave, you are what is technically known as a star. I flipped the aerial and pointed it at saddleworth. Now all works fine. thanks for your advice. Adrian
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Adrian: Excellent you have a resolution. Happy to help.
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Sunday, 6 October 2013
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John Harris10:00 AM
Oldham
Hi Dave
I live in Diggle, Saddleworth. Every now and then I lose ITV 3. It's number vanishes, or I can get no signal. Sometimes a retune brings it back, not always. It's only this channel. It's a bloody nuisance. Any ideas?
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
John Harris: If the signal strength is the same but the quality is lower then perhaps it is the signal from Emley Moor coming in too strong.
The COM channels of Saddleworth are co-channel (same frequencies) as those of Emley Moor, albeit that the former's are vertically polarised and the latter's horizontally so.
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Monday, 14 October 2013
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Harry7:04 PM
I would say Diggle is just about high enough to receive stray signals from Emley Moor, although when I lived there in the old analogue days we also received ITV from The Wrekin too, so perhaps there's interface from there? Unlikely though.
Surprised ITV3 from Saddleworth is failing though, here in Uppermill it's been fine
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Saturday, 27 January 2018
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Robert Weedon10:05 PM
Should I get pbs America on the Saddleworth transmitter
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