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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Monday, 26 November 2012
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Simon8:16 PM
Neston
Had good freeview signal until 24/11/12 on multiple tv's within home. Now can't get any signal during evening on most channels, and is weak on most channels. Winter hill seems to be the transmitter, along with Storeton. Has there been any other reports of issues.
Postcode is CH64 4AU.
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andy9:00 PM
Simon problem could be water leakage in aerial cable
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012
R
Robert Lee6:57 AM
I live in Buckley, N Wales and receive HD from both Storeton and Winter Hill. Both services are fine.
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Thursday, 29 November 2012
G
g allonby6:52 PM
Accrington
council had 400 complaints bad intertference due to windfarm on owaldtwistle moor
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g allonby: What's being done? Has the local paper reported on it?
Is the company Energiekontor UK Ltd paying to have new aerials fitted to those houses that are affected?
Home : HyndburnWindFarm
At your location it would appear that you might be able to receive Freeview from Pendle Forest. Are there new aerials springing up which are pointing in that direction?
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Friday, 30 November 2012
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g allonby7:57 PM
Accrington
its been on bbc news and been raised in parliment haslingden trans updated for baxenden but is only light transmiter so lost many chans if not compatable freesat instaled.kontor paying. coracter coming to mye house tomorow!big bars and break up only on hd chans
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g allonby8:03 PM
Accrington
ther is a message from home hyndburnwindfarm on this page who are you?
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g allonby: The message isn't "from" Home : HyndburnWindFarm, that is a link to the Hyndburn Wind Farm's website!
Can you not receive from Pendle Forest which would give you all the channels?
It might be a good idea to retain your Winter Hill aerial, particularly if some channels are OK.
If it is mainly those channels which are available from Haslingden (the PSBs), then you could combine an aerial on Haslingden with the Winter Hill one using a diplexer:
Online TV Splitters, Amps & Diplexers sales
A C38 split will probably do.
Receive HD from Haslingden and the rest from Winter Hill.
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Stuart Owens
9:21 PM
9:21 PM
I'm sure these's some people in Greater Manchester reading this who can answer this question:
I was wondering, is anything transmitting now on MEN UHF Ch.57 where Channel M was?
According to the following website I sometimes look at, it says it's named as the MTN Multiplex transmitting the following channels: movies4men, movies4men+1, SONY SAB and ARGOS TV 24/7 on EPG numbers: 51, 52, 53 & 54 respectively as well as CAPITAL TV on 56 and HIGH STREET TV on 57.
Are these transmitting? If so, why are they not listed on UKFreeTv? Or if they are not transmitting, why does it show on the other website? And is there any expected launch date for those channels if they aren't already transmitting?
Here -
Freeview HD regionalised channel list | British Isles: England: Granada (LL115FQ)
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Stuart Owens
9:31 PM
Wrexham
9:31 PM
Wrexham
The above should read: I'm sure there's some people in Greater Manchester reading this who can answer this question.
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