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, 7 February 2019
R
Rob8:35 PM
Hi,
Do you know if Winter Hill has reduced the power recently of Com7 and Com8? Or how I could find out? My Humax freeview box recently (couple of weeks perhaps, FY55LR, aerial on roof) did it's automatic retune and lost all channels from these multipelxes. Up until then I'd sometimes get reduced strength on these channels but now there's nothing, even a manual tune doesn't find anything and the strength meters show 0. My parents box nearby can receive them ok?
Any ideas? Many thanks for the great site. :)
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Friday, 8 February 2019
MikeP
10:52 AM
10:52 AM
Rob:
There has not been any change in the output power of any transmitter - they cannot be turned up or down at all. Only during engineering work are there ever any changes and only for the duration of the work. That is for the health and safety of the engineers working up the masts.
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Rob3:32 PM
Thanks for the quick response. I'm wondering if a nearby waste water pumping station is affecting the signal as there's been times when from a perfect signal it will go choppy then disappear altogether. Would buying a filter and/or booster help do you think? Anything to look out for (makes etc?)
Rob
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MikeP
9:55 PM
9:55 PM
Rob:
Water pumping stations do not cause the sort of problems you are experiencing, unless there is a serious electrical fault with their equipment. The operators would be able to check.
Neither a filter nor a booster would help unless you are close to another type of transmitter. The channels used by Winter Hill are very unlikely to be affected by 4G signals which are in the 800 MHz range, well away from Freeview signals. A booster is never needed unless the signal strength is low, so check on the manual tuning page what the strengths are - but DO NOT RETUNE. Ideally you should have between 60% and 85%, both less and more is likely to give problems.
So do some careful checks and report back, please?
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Saturday, 9 February 2019
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Mazbar5:16 PM
Rob: unlike what has been said 4g can cause interference but it is normal to cause interference if it is very close to you, ie the mobile mast is within 1/2 a mile of you. The most likely cause is all the trees around you. Get a professional aerial installer to have a look at your system.
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MikeP
8:59 PM
8:59 PM
Mazbar:
The frequencies used for 4G are far too far away from those used by the Winter Hill transmitter to be the cause of interference. It may do so if the wanted TV channels were mainly in the region of channels in the high 50's or above.Despite fears that it would cause a lot of problems, very few people have been troubled by 4G interference.
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Sunday, 10 February 2019
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Mazbar5:17 AM
MikeP: that's funny why then did half of a local village lose tv picture when a 4g transmitter went live near me. It was so powerful all tv pictures where lost. Every frequency went off. Filters didn't work the only thing that did work was labgear mastheads that have a 45db rejection on 4g. You do post a lot on hear but some of the things you post are wrong. You are trying to help people but sometimes you are not giving the right answer.
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MikeP
10:43 PM
10:43 PM
Mazbar:
It was because of the closeness of the 4G transmitter. In the case under consideration, there is no such transmitter close by, so not a problem.
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Friday, 15 February 2019
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Andrew McKernan12:16 PM
Hi. I am interested in coverage maps for local TV, specifically Channel 7. Are there any postcode district files that correspond to the maps. I note that details for the Madingley That's Cambridge service are out of date analogue Madingley (Cambridge) (Cambridgeshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter | free and easy although it is now on the UHF Multiplex Channel 35 @ 586 MHz. Thanks, Andrew
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Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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Chris.SE4:34 PM
Andrew McKernan:
For mux channel allocation etc. as the site owner here has not had time to update all the transmitter pages you are best referring to the official Digital UK site Digital UK - Coverage checker and put your postcode into the box.
For coverage maps, you may get what you want by going to the map at the top of a transmitter page here and selecting "Enable Pro Mode" just below the map. You can then select the Multiplex of interest from the list on the top LHS of the map.
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