Freeview Light on the Woodford Halse (Northamptonshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Woodford Halse (Northamptonshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,400 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 Woodford Halse (Northamptonshire, 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 Woodford Halse (Northamptonshire, 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 Woodford Halse 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) | 158m | DTG- | 2W |
 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) | 158m | DTG- | 2W |
 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) | 158m | DTG- | 2W |
 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 Woodford Halse (Northamptonshire, 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 Woodford Halse transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 58km northwest (306°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 58km northwest (306°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Woodford Halse (Northamptonshire, 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 | 7W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-5.4dB) 2W |
Local transmitter maps
Woodford Halse Freeview Sutton Coldfield TV region BBC West Midlands Central (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Melvinne Harvey9:29 PM
Brian,
Just an update on the Woodford transmitter.
First part of the swichover has gone exactly to plan and the signal is excellent even with an 18 year old arial !!
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Thursday, 29 September 2011
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Melvinne Harvey10:26 PM
Second part of the switchover went ahead last week on this transmitter.All the allocated channels work fine with good reception ,including the HD channels.
This is all still on the old arial and the HD channels are of equal quality to those on Freesat
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Monday, 3 October 2011
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James7:59 PM
So are the rest of the freeview channels coming to this transmitter, or will I have to keep satellite for film4?
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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Jim F10:00 AM
James: No - Woodford Halse is a relay and will only have the 3 PSB MUXs, so you'll need to keep the dish (but don't need a subscription for Film4).
Even with 6 Freeview MUXs I still have a dish - used almost exclusively for the additional "red button" sports screens (Freeview provides only one).
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Tuesday, 7 November 2023
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Richard quakkelaar6:48 PM
Where is the DTG information gone from this page:https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Woodford_Halse. I am after the FEC the bandwidth etc.... There was always a handy set of parameters to tune the tuner
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Wednesday, 8 November 2023
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Chris.SE3:03 AM
Richard quakkelaar:
Yes the info for the PSBs seems to have disappeared from all transmitter pages, no doubt due to a bug resulting from automated site software "upgrades" (not sure that choice of words is best!!). I know the site owner has had a few issues that some of the upgrades have created.
I believe this is the info you want -
PSB1 & PSB2 - DVB-T 6817 (8K) carriers, 64QAM mode, FEC=2/3, 1/32 guard interval, MPEG2, Mux Bitrate 24.1Mbps
PSB3 - DVB-T2 27841 (32KE) carriers, 256QAM mode, FEC=2/3, 1/128 guard interval, MPEG4, Mux Bitrate 40.2Mbps
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Chris.SE/Richard quakkelaar: I will look into this..
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Thursday, 9 November 2023
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