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 - Malvern transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/06/2023 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 Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Malvern (Worcestershire, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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 |
Local transmitter maps
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Friday, 8 May 2015
Transmitter engineering
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 19:56 on 06 May to 20:24 on 06 May, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 17:56 on 06 May to 19:56 on 06 May. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:49 today to 15:18 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 4 June 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:49 yesterday to 15:18 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 5 June 2015
Transmitter engineering
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
MALVERN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:49 on 03 Jun to 15:18 on 03 Jun. [BBC]
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Monday, 31 August 2015
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John Brown7:28 AM
We are experiencing breakup on all channels 11 through 132. Has been occurring for about a week. Have reset/retuned - no change. Is there a problem with com5 ArqA.? We live in WR49XQ.
Currently channels unwatchable.
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jb389:55 AM
John Brown: Aerials seen in your area would appear to be pointing in a number of directions, as reception in the location given is indicated as being possible from Malvern, Sutton Coldfield and Ridge Hill, aerials pointing towards Malvern being identified by the fact of them being vertically mounted, whereas horizontal on the other two stations.
Carry out a signal strength check on ArqA for the purpose of checking the Mux channel number its being received on, Mux59 Malvern / Mux 45 Sutton Coldfield / Mux24 Ridge Hill.
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jb3811:53 AM
John Brown: Did also mean to include, that the reason for checking which Mux channel ArqA is being received on is down to the fact of the Ridge Hill transmitter being received on a bearing of 224 degrees whereas Malvern is on 220, and although the polarity of the transmissions are different between the two stations, its still possible to pick up and store the incorrect channel.
If you are unsure where you are receiving from, check your ArqA channel number against BBC1, Malvern's BBC1 Mux53 whereas Ridge Hills BBC1 is on Mux28, and although not likely to apply, but Sutton Coldfields BBC1 is on Mux43.
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015
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John Brown6:38 PM
Thanks for the response re Malvern com4/ArqA. Without doing anything at our end the pictures were miraculously restored by 1700hrs today (Tuesday)! I suspect the transmitter had been down on power or off and we could have been receiving ridge hill. Our aerial was installed at the start of free-view and has worked OK ever since.
Many thanks.
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Sunday, 6 September 2015
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John Brown8:03 AM
jb38: More problems with Malvern com4. It's very intermittent (some days ok others not) and my wife is losing patience (no cooking ch). We appear to be on right transmitter - ch59 but sig quality is red (bad) and strength about 75percent at present.. Tried manual retune but just says "no more channels found". When doing channel autosearch none of the com4 ones appear. We also have a non-self tuning dvb set which (today) is showing all com4 channels without problem.
Any suggestions please?
John Brown
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John Brown8:53 AM
Just checked our pvr. Perfect reception and picture - full strength/quality on com 4. Same aerial as tv's. What is going on?
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