Full Freeview on the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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The symbol shows the location of the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmitter which serves 74,000 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 Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) mast?

Nottingham transmitter - Nottingham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Nottingham 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	C27 (522.0MHz)	175m	DTG-	400W
	1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C24 (498.0MHz)	175m	DTG-	400W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East 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, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C21+ (474.2MHz)	175m	DTG-	400W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C33 (570.0MHz)	175m	DTG-8	400W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! movies action, 46 Channel 5 +1, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 74 Dave ja vu, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 203 CITV, 208 Pop Player, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 15 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C36 (594.0MHz)	175m	DTG-8	400W
	11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 57 Smithsonian Channel, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 75 Yesterday +1, 83 Together TV, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C48 (690.0MHz)	175m	DTG-8	400W
	12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 71 Quest Red +1, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 88 Classic Hits, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 19 others
LNG	V -6dB	C44 (658.0MHz)	175m	DTG-12	100W
	from 27th May 2014: 7 Notts TV,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?

The Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, 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 Nottingham transmitter?

BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 9km east-southeast (118°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.

ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 72km southwest (218°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)

How will the Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	4 Mar 2020
	A K T	A K T	A K T	W T	W T
C21	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C24	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C27	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C31	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C33					SDN
C34		C5_waves	C5_waves
C36					ArqA
C44					_local
C48				ArqB	ArqB
C50_{tv_off}					LNG
C51_{tv_off}				SDN
C52_{tv_off}				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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-5	2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 400W
LNG	(-13dB) 100W
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C, Mux D	(-17dB) 40W

Local transmitter maps

Nottingham Freeview Nottingham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Nottingham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Nottingham was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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JR Castle Donington
9:33 PM
Derby

I noticed the HD mux from the had gone (zero for all 4 channels). As in April the other mux's are unaffected.
I've reported it on the BBC website.

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Graham
11:09 PM
Nottingham

Yes same here in Kimberley area. Exactly like the situation we had in April.

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Terry Devlin
9:02 AM
Nottingham

Sat morning 09.00. Still no HD on the since Thurs evening.

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Graham
12:52 PM
Nottingham

All four HD , have returned here in the Kimberley area (12:45pm).

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Jimmy
7:11 PM
Nottingham

Jimmy: All back on now. Very strange. I wonder what went wrong?

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S. Carter
8:48 PM
Nottingham

Indeed, mine is back too. I did report it on the BBC so I'll wait and see if I get any response to that.

Interesting a small portion of something was recorded in HD on Friday evening, so the signal must have returned briefly then.

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K R Sydenham
5:01 AM
Ilkeston

Last week all he HD stations disappeared and
subsequently returned on Saturday, all was well
until Sunday when the normal bbc1/2 had difficulty in resolving a . The Hd content is first class with 71% strength. There is no problem with other
stations it is just BBC. The is
in the and this is temporary until S/coldfield starts tranmission.

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K R Sydenham
7:14 PM
Ilkeston

"Its all good"

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9:32 PM

K R Sydenham: OK...

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Woody
4:43 PM
Nottingham

I'm frustrated with BBC . I'm watching SD, all are fine except BBC 1 & 2, they are scrambled & jumpy 60% of the time. Done all the advice re: from other devices, retunjng, hard reset. Always the same problem. IMO is rubbish, I'd rather have a bit of snow all the time on than nothing 50% of the time then perfect signal 50% of the time. I'm in a 6th floor flat facing with a brand new on the balcony & uninstructed view for miles!!!

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