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 05/06/2023 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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Sunday, 5 May 2013
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jb385:15 PM
Kenmo: Many thanks for the update and pleased to hear that you have managed to sort the problem out, I only included the additional info just in case nothing amiss was found when you checked the aerial input.
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ColinB6:13 PM
Sandbach
Hi : My mother lives in Sandbach CW11 3EL and after the switchover she can obtain all the channels but BBC1 is badly pixilated and unwatchable. From making various checks she is linked to Winter Hill. She has a Phillips TV with built in Freeview. Any suggestions to rectify the problem. Previously she has had no problems with reception or obtaining all the usual channels.
Thanks for any help
Colin
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ColinB6:40 PM
Hi : just to add that my mother's next door neighbour is having the same problem.
thanks for any help
Colin
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ColinB: Have you confirmed that for BBC One her receiver is tuned to UHF channel 50, which is Winter Hill?
Haslingden is on C26 and is on roughly the same bearing, albeit vertically polarised.
I don't quite understand as you make reference to "switchover". This occured in 2009 and the frequency of BBC services changed 10 April this year. If there was no retune required on 10 April then she cannot be tuned to Winter Hill.
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ColinB: If it does turn out to be tuned to Haslingden then just have the aerial lead out for the first 30% of the scan to avoid picking it up.
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ColinB: The signal strength screen usually gives the tuned UHF channel (or frequency).
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Monday, 6 May 2013
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ColinB11:29 AM
Thanks Dave, I'll check the channel as you suggest and, of course, I was refering to the change in frequency on 10th April.
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ColinB: Having established that the TVs are tuned to C50 (for BBC), is there a Sky box or some other box that may be outputting an analogue signal and that this is set to C50 or near to?
Connecting the incoming aerial feed directly to the TV is a quick way of discounting that as a possibility.
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ColinB: If any of the TVs only give tuned channels in MHz, then C50 is 706.0MHz and C26 is 514.0MHz.
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Friday, 10 May 2013
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ColinB2:34 PM
Hi Dave. Thanks for your help.
I finally managed to sort the problem by taking out the aerial and going through the installation process which put the TV back to factory settings with no channels. I then plugged the aerial back in and installed the channels. Everything now working correctly including the problem BBC1 channel. Must have been a corruption from when the channels were first loaded.
All the best
Colin
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