Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter which serves 2,690,000 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 Winter Hill (Bolton, England) mast?
Winter Hill transmitter - Winter Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-2 16QAM 2K 3/4 18.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Winter Hill 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-2 16QAM 2K 3/4 18.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Winter Hill transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 22km southeast (139°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 22km southeast (139°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1956-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 20 Feb 2020 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C12 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C24 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C40 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C54tv_off | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | ||
| C56tv_off | _local | _local | _local | LPR | |||||
| C57tv_off | GIM | GIM | GIM | GIM | |||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C61 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | 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 4 Nov 09 and 2 Dec 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-12.9dB) 25.7kW | |
| com8 | (-13.4dB) 22.6kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-16dB) 12.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| LL | (-24dB) 2kW | |
| GIM, LM, LPR | (-27dB) 1000W |
Local transmitter maps
Winter Hill Freeview Winter Hill DAB Winter Hill TV region BBC North West GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 27 August 2015
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Andy12:40 PM
I live in West Manchester and for about a month now all the ARQA channels (Dave etc) have a very bad signal making the channels unwatchable. I would put this down to my aerial but my mum also had the same issue at about the same time. In both our cases we made no changes to our setups or aerials.
I don't know if it's just me and my mum having this problem but somehow I doubt it. I notice that Winter Hill is currently listed as having a possible weak signal and wonder if this is the cause of the issue and when, if ever, it will be fixed?
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Andy: The best place to start with this issue us Single frequency interference . It is much more likely to be an issue at your location, with almost 3 million homes covered by this mast, a problem with everyone would be picked up very quickly.
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anthony3:28 PM
Just checked, all 10 multiplexes working normally from Winter Hill in SW Manchester.
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Sunday, 30 August 2015
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Pip males11:02 PM
Been getting poor reception for a few weeks in M43 postcode but saw weak signal message from winterhill. The message to retune after 25th August. Did this and it isn't picking up itv, 4, 5 etc. it does find itv hd etc. tried reset but that doesn't sort it. Tried manual tuning to the channels on this site (58, 59 etc) still to no avail. Any suggestions please?
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Monday, 31 August 2015
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PJ9:09 PM
I've lost ITV4 on my Freeview boxes (Topfields)
Anyone else noticed?
(it's been off since 8pm - Moto GP)
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015
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PJ5:25 PM
Briantist: Many thanks. I've got ITV4 again, just in time to catch the MOTO GP.
Cheers PJ
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
6:44 AM
6:44 AM
WINTER HILL transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Monday, 7 September 2015
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Bryan Green8:42 AM
Could it be that with COM7 on UHF channel 31 broadcasting at a fraction of the power of the other main UHF channels from Winter Hill, that some viewers are affected?
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Bryan1:56 PM
Just tried a signal test on my Humax DTT box. Zero reception for UHF channel 31 from Winter Hill.
Bryan
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