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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Wednesday, 23 January 2019
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Michael10:40 PM
Liverpool
Michael: The full post code is L37 1NU. Thanks for the prompt response.
The arial goes through the Humax to the TV and the TV tunes fully so the signal is clearly coming through the arial OK ! Ive tried a retune both automatically and manually and as I said a brand new Humax still has the same problem !! Nothing on channels 32 and 34 which carry most of the channels I watch ( nor on the rest of the channels.)
Thanks
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Thursday, 24 January 2019
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Brian12:10 AM
Michael: BBC A is UHF 50 D3&4 is UHF 59.
Correct information is found at -
Coverage Checker - Detailed View
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MikeP
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
Michael:
Nothing is being tranmitted on channels 32 or 34!
The channels currently in use are: 50 (BBCA), 59 (D3&4), 54 (BBCB HD), 58 (SDN), 49 (ARQA), 37 (ARQB), 55 (COM7) and 31 (COM8).
You should be using a wideband aerial (or a log-periodic) as there channels outside of the 'normal' groupings and there will be changes later this year or next year that will require a wideband aerial be used.
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Friday, 25 January 2019
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Peter Whitehead3:21 PM
Last year's retune resulted in the loss of COM7 at my address in north Blackpool. I recently discovered a friend can receive COM7 in south Blackpool. COM 7 appears to have a narrow angle of transmitter output effectively cutting Blackpool into haves and have nots. Why?
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MikeP
8:06 PM
8:06 PM
Peter Whitehead:
Please provide a full post code then we will be able to see the predicted coverage at your location.
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Monday, 28 January 2019
P
Peter Whitehead12:06 PM
Blackpool
Peter Whitehead: FY3 7JJ
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Peter Whitehead1:51 PM
Blackpool
Roof, recent log periodic aerial installation.
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Chris.SE10:16 PM
Peter Whitehead:
Unfortunately the predicted coverage of COM7 at your location is poor and COM8 will also become poor during Q1 2020 when there are some retune events. You can see this from the Digitaluk coverage checker Coverage Checker - Detailed View
The strange thing is that the mapping shows the whole of Blackpool well within the coverage area of COM7 (& COM8). Whilst I would normally say that this problem is likely to be due to interference from other transmitters as COMs 7&8 are now/becoming SFNs (single frequency networks) all sharing the same UHF channels 55 & 56. However looking at the map, I'm currently at a bit of a loss as to which transmitters might be causing that in your location. Further investigation is needed.
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Chris.SE10:39 PM
Peter Whitehead:
I'm hoping someone else might offer a feasible explanation, but at the moment it seems odd. Whilst you have line of sight to all the surrounding transmitters, other than Winter Hill only Moel-y-parc will be using UHF 55&56 and it isn't at present.
You are however surrounded my mobile phone masts, so whether this is due to interference from 4G transmissions from them is difficult to say. In the absence of any other information, I'd suggest contacting AT800 - at800 | 4G & Freeview | 4G interference | 4G Filters | 800 MHz on 0808 1313800 - at800 | 4G & Freeview | 4G interference | 4G Filters | 800 MHz contact-us/ and see if they can supply you with a free filter which might (note might) help resolve the situation. Other than anything that comes to light, good luck with this.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2019
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wrren5:55 PM
hi
Is there any way of bringing site mod's attention to inappropriate posts?
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