Full Freeview on the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter which serves 11,000 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 Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmitter._______
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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Saddleworth (Oldham, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Saddleworth 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Saddleworth (Oldham, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Saddleworth transmitter?
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 20km west-southwest (248°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 20km west-southwest (248°)
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.
How will the Saddleworth (Oldham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 30 Mar 2018 | |||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | |||
| C39 | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
| C41 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C48 | -ArqB | -ArqB | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||
| C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C51tv_off | -SDN | -SDN | -SDN | SDN | |||||
| C52tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +ArqA | +ArqA | +ArqA |
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 | 2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 40W |
Local transmitter maps
Saddleworth Freeview Saddleworth 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, 13 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
7:54 PM
7:54 PM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 13 Jan 16:55. . FM: Broadcasting in mono due to essential engineering from 12 Jan 10:19 until 12 Jan 10:41. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 14 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:02 AM
5:02 AM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 13 Jan 16:55 until 14 Jan 01:11. . FM: Broadcasting in mono due to essential engineering from 12 Jan 10:19 until 12 Jan 10:41. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 17 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
10:53 AM
10:53 AM
SADDLEWORTH transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 13 Jan 16:55 until 14 Jan 01:11. . [BBC]
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Friday, 25 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
Saddleworth transmitter - Saddleworth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/06/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 28 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:46 AM
5:46 AM
Saddleworth transmitter - Saddleworth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/06/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Saturday, 20 November 2021
C
Chris.SE6:33 AM
Jamie Burchell et al:
Unfortunately the site owner has not has the time to update all the changes from the 700MHz Clearnace programme, so many of the UHF channel listings are not correct.
In the order PSBs1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB -
the UHF channels for Saddleworth are C45, C39, C42, C33, C36, C48.
The final changes were made on the 12th August 2020.
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Friday, 3 December 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:13 PM
3:13 PM
Saddleworth transmitter - Saddleworth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/11/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 6 December 2021
Transmitter engineering
6:09 AM
6:09 AM
Saddleworth transmitter - Saddleworth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 06/12/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Saturday, 16 April 2022
R
Rob Taylor 6:12 PM
No freeview signal in Greenfield, Saddleworth, second day on the run. When will it be fixed?
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Chris.SE8:57 PM
Rob Taylor :
It's highly unlikely that a transmitter would be off-air for 2 days without any faults being reported and I can't find any at present, and it doesn't appear to have been listed for any Planned Engineering.
If there was any brief interruption to the signal a couple of days ago for whatever reason and you retuned, then that will likely have just cleared your correct tuning and you'll need to redo it. It's never advised to retune when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures.
If that wasn't the case, have you checked that your aerial is still pointing the correct way and the downlead is undamaged? Also check all the connection behind your TV etc.
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