Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?
The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin 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 The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, 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 The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
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 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 7 January 2016
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Sam8:32 PM
Oswestry
This is getting stupid. All the HD TV Channels are breaking up but the SD Channels are working absoulty fine without anything. We don't need a new areal because it was perfect last night, sunday, saturday and all over christmas
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MikeB9:01 PM
Sam: Check your signal strength - HD is more likely to break up because the signal is too high or too low. If too high, get an attentuator, and if too low, check your system.
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Sam9:07 PM
Oswestry
MikeB: But i don't understand why it would be perfect one day but not perfect tonight
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MikeB11:03 PM
Sam: Could be lots of reasons. If you've got a dodgy system, (perhaps moisture has got in), when it rains, the signal is rubbish, but when thats dried out, its OK. Or it could be that your signal is too strong, but most of the time just enough so you dont notice. But when it changes slightly (and its does - mine certainly wanders around a bit), it just tops out, and then you have a problem. And dont forget that old favourite - the aerial lead coming a bit loose.
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Wednesday, 20 January 2016
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Andy D7:44 PM
For the last few weeks all the Freeview HD channels are intermittently breaking up can be every few mins to OK for 15mins. This happens through my BT you view box. Using the TVs HD tuner it doesn't break up but the signal quality shows between 1 to 3 out of 10 but strength 10. After going through all the channels it's only the ones on mux Channel 30 (545.8mhz) that have this issue. This includes SD channel 45 film4+1. All other channels give signal strength 10 and quality 9-10. I have an 800mhz filter connected and taking this off does seem to make it worse. I have not had this issue before, I have no new electrical devices, the kit has not moved and I have tried remaking the connectors on the cabling. My aerial is pointing toward the Wrekin transmitter. Post code WV45UD.
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Thursday, 21 January 2016
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MikeB1:35 PM
Andy D: Signal strength 10? - look for 'too much of a good thing' for a start - it sounds like your tuner is being overloaded.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
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Paul Jennings2:49 PM
Worcester
Post code WR5 2HZ. For many years we have obtained our Freeview from the Wrekin. We get a perfect picture on channels 26 (514.0MHz), 23 (490.0MHz), 30 (545.8MHz), 41(634.2MHz) and 47 (682.0MHz) but C44 (658.0MHz) is very poor and continually breaks up. Could anyone explain a possible reason for this and if there is anything we can do about it. Our position in Worcester and some large neighbouring trees has historically meant that the Malvern transmitter has not been good. It would be quite costly to check out this option again and since the Wrekin does a good job for the five channels above it would be nice to find a solution. Thank you.
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Thursday, 7 April 2016
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Trevor Wootton12:40 PM
Shrewsbury
Hi, I listen to some radio stations which on the 18th April 2016 are changing channels to use the11A block, which the Wrekin does not support. Yes, when at home I could use the internet, but I bought 2 DAB car radios especially to listen to my particular radio stations. so the question is when is the Wrekin going to catch up with the technology available.
Cheers
Trevor
SY4 4NU
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Thursday, 21 April 2016
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Carole Hughes11:46 AM
Wolverhampton
WV10 6LP
I continually have problems with my upstairs TV . I have reset and done what is asked but have no picture.
I cannot get Talking Pictures on either of my sets which I am assured by them I could get.
HELP
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Monday, 25 April 2016
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Mrs D Whitehouse4:04 PM
Shifnal
Last night and today we are experiencing the picture breaking up and freezing. Can you please let me know if there are any problems in our area. This is happening on our freeview channels and our BT box.Have tried turning evertything off abd re booted but still hapening. Our postcode is TF11 8AH Thank you
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