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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Malvern (Worcestershire, 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 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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Thursday, 19 December 2024
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Tom Brooke5:43 PM
Worcester
WR8 0BB
We have no Freeview signal on any of the tv in the house
Our aerial is on the roof
Is the transmitter in Malvern repaired as we have had no tv from when we got up this morning?
Thank you
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StevensOnln17:17 PM
Tom Brooke: The transmitter engineering posts immediately above yours warn of planned engineering work this week and a fault last night. Did you attempt to retune when you had no signal? This may have caused the existing tuning data to be deleted. Have you checked whether any near neighbours have also lost signal? Also, are all of your TVs connected to the same aerial?
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Chris.SE7:45 PM
Tom Brooke:
Stevnsonln1 has explained what happens if you retune when you have No Signal, you cannot tune to signals that aren't there!
The BBC have not reported any faults for TV reception today, so it's unlikely it's been off-air other than very briefly.
You have line-of-sight to Malvern 7km away, so you should not normally have a problems with reception. Your aerial should be pointing at compass bearing 318 degrees, that's pretty well NW, and the rods (or squashed Xs) should be vertical.
Do check that it is still pointing correctly and that the coax downlead isn't flapping in the wind or even broken off.
If you have an aerial amp/splitter, do check that it still has power and all the connections are good. If still no joy, try removing the aerial input from the splitter and couple it direct to your main TV to see if you have signal.
Do of course check that you are correctly tuned in your TV Tuning section, to Malvern's UHF channels.
In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6
The UHF channels are C41, C44, C47, C29, C31, & C37
For which TV Channels are carried on which multiplex see
Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
If you are incorrectly tuned, unplug the aerial and do an automatic tune to clear existing tuning. Plug the aerial back in and manually tune each of those UHF channels listed.
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Sunday, 8 June 2025
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Peter Hayward8:31 AM
I am at Besford Estate, near Pershore.
We are at the highest point on the estate and can clearly see the Malvern Hills and the Tower at Brendon. The aerial in the loft of the dormer bungalow was pointing in the opposite direction to Malvern and were receiving BBC only. There is a single boost box at the aerial and a booster splitter box too.
If I hold the bare aerial cable (without the aerial), we can receive BBC
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StevensOnln111:09 AM
Peter Hayward: We need a full postcode to check, but it sounds like your aerial is pointed at the Lark Stoke transmitter, which is in the opposite direction to Malvern from Pershore. Does the booster box or splitter have power to it? If the splitter is powered, it may be feeding power up the cable to the mast head amplifier (booster box) which won't function without power. Both transmitters carry the exact same lineup of channels, so it may be that Lark Stoke provides a stronger signal at your location, as it has a higher power output than Malvern.
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Monday, 9 June 2025
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Chris.SE10:37 PM
Peter Hayward:
You say you can receive BBC by holding the aerial cable BUT do you know from which transmitter? You'd need to identify the UHF Channel carrying the BBC Multiplex that you are receiving!
That is simply because, considering what you've told us about your elevation, you can possibly receive signals from at least two, probably three transmitters and under certain weather conditions, more, maybe five or six!
General predictions for that area don't show especially good reception from Lark Stoke (but it will be very location specific) particularly the COM multiplexes.
One particular problem with receiving Malvern in your location is that in weather conditions with Tropospheric Ducting, reception may not be reliable as the channels used for the PSB multiplexes are co-channel with Wenvoe which will be roughly on the same line of site within the beamwidth of your aerial.
Malvern (400W) and Lark Stoke (1000W) are low power transmitters. You may be better to see if you can get reliable signals from Sutton Coldfield which although somewhat further away is a much, more powerful main transmitter 200kW at compass bearing 19 degrees (roughly NNE) in your general area BUT a full postcode is needed to check on that.
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