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The symbol shows the location of the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, England) transmitter which serves 130,000 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Fenton transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C24 (498.0MHz)251mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 19 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)251mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C21+ (474.2MHz)251mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 V -3dB
C25 (506.0MHz)251mDTG-81,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 V -3dB
C22+ (482.2MHz)251mDTG-81,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 V -3dB
C28 (530.0MHz)251mDTG-81,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Fenton transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 61km south-southeast (164°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 61km south-southeast (164°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Fenton (Stoke-on-Trent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Mar 2018
A K TA K TA K TA K TW T
C21C4wavesC4wavesC4waves+BBCBBBCB
C22+ArqAArqA
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C25SDNSDN
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesD3+4D3+4
C28ArqBArqB
C29_local_local
C31BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off

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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-5 10kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 1000W
com7, com8(-18.5dB) 140W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-20dB) 100W
Mux C*, Mux D*(-23dB) 50W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Fenton was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Friday, 27 April 2018
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Dan T
9:52 PM

Hi all,

Will COM7 and COM8 be increasing from 140W any time soon? Frankly, it's next to pointless. I can barely get COM7 with a large amount of data errors, making it unwatchable; this is from only 4.37 miles away, with a recently installed Triax UNIX 32 LTE 800 antenna (C21 - 60, 470 - 790 MHz). This picked up both fine before they moved. I can't get COM8 at all.

Also, the main section of the page with the multiplex and channel info needs to be updated for them:
COM7; was C32 / 562MHz, now C55 / 746MHz
COM8; was C34 / 578MHz, now C56 / 754MHz

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Saturday, 28 April 2018
MikeP
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12:38 PM

Dan T:

Highly unlikely as COM 7 and COM 8 are temporary service transmissions. Sometime in the next few years when all transmissions use the DVB-T2 encoding they will be removed as the newer HD system can carry more channels.



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Sunday, 29 April 2018
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Harry Hackney
11:50 PM

I used to be able to watch all Freeview channels off Fenton transmitter I've had a brand new Ariel fitted on the roof retuned several times to no avail keeps showing on tv screen no signal or channel not available

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Monday, 30 April 2018
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MikeB
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9:30 AM

Harry Hackney : check all the connections. If you are not getting a signal, then either the connections are at fault or there is a problem with the installation with the new aerial. Or you tv has tuned into the entirely wrong transmitter, but that's surprising.

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Tuesday, 1 May 2018
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Dan T
8:22 AM

@MikeP
Hmm, mildly annoying - though I'd never even look at most of the channels in those muxes, with the occasional programme missed available through catch-up. I imagine people paying for the BT channel will be more annoyed.

Broadcasting at such low power, barely receivable from more than a couple of miles away, seems like a token effort - "yep, we're carrying those channels!" - to appease broadcasters and advertisers.

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MikeB
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11:16 AM

Dan T: Those muss are temp ones, but there is no way that you should be getting such low power from such a short distance away. Check your system as well - a main transmitter from 4.5km away should be often, if anything, far too powerful.

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Sunday, 27 May 2018
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Dan T
9:02 PM

MikeB: Apologies for the very late reply.

This is what tvheadend reports for me right now (Sunday 27th May, 20:50, a bit stormy outside).

For the ones that are ok for me - they have no issues at all, even the 'data heavy' ones eg Channel 4 HD being around 2.5GiB/hour (1080p + AC3).

These work ok:

474.2MHz
67% signal strength
24.1 db

482.2MHz
62% signal strength
23.1 dB SNR

498MHz
67% signal strength
25.2 dB SNR

506MHz
65% signal strength
24.6 db SNR

522MHz
71% signal strength
30 dB SNR

530MHz
68% signal strength
27.6 dB SNR

The two muxes I can't pick up:

746MHz
58% signal strength
17.9 dB SNR

754MHz
56% signal strength
15.2 dB SNR

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Dan T
9:42 PM

Mike B: Argh... I accidentally had the low noise amplifier turned on for both tuners! The strong signal overcame this before, and was only an issue until those two new muxes being broadcast at only 140w.

A TV or regular STB would probably toggle that automatically as required. The problems with 'rolling your own'.

Those two muxes come through at 70% signal, but are clear. No non-correctable errors within a few minutes of viewing.

474.2MHz
82% signal strength
29.8 db

482.2MHz
80% signal strength
31.9 dB SNR

498MHz
83% signal strength
34.1 dB SNR

506MHz
81% signal strength
32.2 db SNR

522MHz
83% signal strength
34 dB SNR

530MHz
81% signal strength
32.5 dB SNR

746MHz
70% signal strength
26.1 dB SNR

754MHz
70% signal strength
25.9 dB SNR

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Thursday, 19 July 2018
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Harry Hackney
3:36 PM

Freeview Samsung smart tv why have some channels gone missing was working fine on all channels until the change over a short time ago yet my friend is on the same transmitter and his are working fine the actual channels I've lost but my friend is still receiving them excact set up apart from a mile in between us both 103 channels is all I receive must be at least TEN stations adrift according to my postcode TRIPLE checked all set up fine only have ONE connection and that is the AERIAL from the roof directly to the tv AND nothing else is connected to the tv or aerial all brand new fitted by the aerial engineer who has triple checked every aspect of why I do not receive all the channels Fenton transmit got them all before so why do I not now NOTHING as been altered all excatly the same can't even get a phone number to speak to anyone who would more than likely be able to sort the problem out for me. THANKS

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MikeP
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4:42 PM

Harry Hackney :

Put your post code into the Digital UK Coverage Checker, Digital UK - Coverage checker and look at which transmitter you are using. Then ensure that you are tuned correctly to those channels and that you have the correct aerial, some recent changes have often required a change of aerial to get all the channels.



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