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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?

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Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)726mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) North West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C34 (578.0MHz)726mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Granada), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C35- (585.8MHz)726mDTG-100,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD North West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)726mDTG-8100,000W
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
 H max
C31 (554.0MHz)726mDTG-8100,000W
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
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)726mDTG-8100,000W
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

LM
 H -20dB
C40 (626.0MHz)572mDTG-121,000W
Channel icons
from 1st October 2014: 7 That's Manchester,

LL
 H -17dB
C24 (498.0MHz)572mDTG-122,000W
Channel icons
from 30th June 2014: 7 Bay TV Liverpool,

LPR
 H -20dB
C56 (754.0MHz)572mDTG-121,000W
Channel icons
from 1st October 2014: 7 That's Lancashire,

GIM
 H -20dB
C57 (762.0MHz)572mDTG-21,000W
Channel icons
 Now 90s,  Spotlight TV,  Clubland TV,  Country Music Entertainment ,  Classic Hits MCR, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 77 That's 60s MCR, 80 That's 80s, 86 That's 90s MCR, 88 TV Warehouse+1,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.8%
from Salford M50 2QH, 22km southeast (140°)
to BBC North West region - 92 masts.
regional news image
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?

1956-80s1984-971997-981998-20092009-132013-182013-1720 Feb 2020
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TW TW T
C9ITVwaves
C12BBCtvwaves
C24_local
C29SDN
C31com7com7
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C37com8com8
C40LOCAL2
C48C5wavesC5waves
C49tv_off ArqAArqA
C50tv_off BBCABBCA
C54tv_off-BBCB-BBCB-BBCB
C55tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesArqBArqBArqBcom7tv_off
C56tv_off_local_local_localLPR
C57tv_offGIMGIMGIMGIM
C58tv_offSDNSDNSDN
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C61ArqA
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C65C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
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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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area

May 1956-Jul 1968Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Granada 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.

Comments
Sunday, 12 November 2017
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gordon holt
6:38 PM

I am a talk talk customer who supplied me with a youview box and I cannot tune into bbc 4 hd or bbc news hd, is there a difference between freeview and youview do I need to change to free view to recieve these hd channels
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gordon holt
6:42 PM

i cannot recieve bbc 4 hd or bbc news hd is this because i have a youview box from talk talk
wa27gb

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StevensOnln1
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7:45 PM

gordon holt: Youview boxes are capable of receiving all Freeview HD channels. COM7 (the multiplex which carries BBC 4 HD and BBC News HD) should have excellent reception at your location just 25km from the Winter Hill transmitter. Most likely you are either suffering with signal overload (search for article "Too much of a good thing" on this website) or you have an older group C/D aerial which was designed for receiving frequencies in the higher end of the UHF band (COM7 is broadcast on C31 from Winter Hill which is well below the frequency range a group C/D aerial was designed to receive).

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Friday, 24 November 2017
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Charles Carruthers
2:48 PM

I have two Samsung Smart TVs. One receives a signal directly from the aerial and to my knowledge has 'collected' all of the available channels. The other TV which is power-boosted a short distance away appears to receive all channels with the exception of Channel 81 Talking Pictures and Channel 82 Vintage TV. I have tried several ways for this TV to 'pull in' those channels but all attempts have failed. Are those two channels somewhat weaker than the rest and the signal booster is the decider on whether or not they get successfully tuned? Kind regards and advanced thanks.

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MikeB
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9:55 PM

Charles Carruthers: Check if the second TV has an HD tuner (model no. would be helpful). Talking Pictures (as has been pointed out again and again) needed an HD tuner to pick it up. So if you havn't got one, your not going to get them.

Also check they are tuned to the same transmitter. If both TV's have HD tuners, but one is tuned to a transmitter that doesn't carry those channels, then that could also explain it. Put your postcode into the site, and we can see if this could happen.

BTW - if one TV is fine without a booster, why is the other one connected to it?

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Wednesday, 29 November 2017
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js
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12:46 AM

GIM or G-MAN is running with empty or non-existent SI tables again.

The following xml table dumps were produced by the TransEdit TS Analyzer.

An empty NIT means no LCNs.

The NIT:

<Winter_Hill_762>
<NIT PID="0x0010" Name="Actual Network">
<NetworkID HValue="0x302A"/>
</NIT>
</Winter_Hill_762>

An empty SDT means no service names.

The SDT (no SDT Actual TS is present):

<Winter_Hill_762>
<SDT PID="0x0011" Name="Other TS">
<OriginalNetworkID HValue="0x233A">
<TransportStreamID HValue="0x1048"/>
</OriginalNetworkID>
</SDT>
</Winter_Hill_762>


There's more, and this has been going on for a year or so:

The PAT is changing every few seconds.

The PAT is essentially just a list of SIDs followed by PMT PIDs.

The PAT Version Number is incremented at each change.

Here are three successive PATs, appearing within a minute or so of each other:


Version Number 31 = (FF and 00111110)/2
00 B0 21 74 01 FF 00 00
00 00 E0 10

76 81 EB 11
77 81 E3 09
77 41 E0 25
76 41 EC B8
76 01 EF 7D

7D 80 E0 E7 /CRC


Version Number 0 = (C1 and 00111110)/2
00 B0 1D 74 01 C1 00 00
00 00 E0 10

76 81 EB 11
77 81 E3 09
76 41 EC B8
76 01 EF 7D

54 0C 4F 2B /CRC

Version Number 1 = (C3 and 00111110)/2
00 B0 21 74 01 C3 00 00
00 00 E0 10

76 81 EB 11
77 81 E3 09
77 41 E0 25
76 41 EC B8
76 01 EF 7D

71 82 9A 65 /CRC


The first and third PATs are identical apart from their version numbers.

In the second PAT, there are only four Programs.

The entry "77 41 E0 25" is missing.

Here is the data for GIM, read off the BBC A multiplex:

GIM
ONID.TSID = 233A.7401
762 MHz, uhf 57, 8 MHz, 16-QAM, 8k, 3/4, 1/32
Target Regions = (GBR.England.North West)U(GBR.Isle of Man)
(
LCN SID TYPE SERVICE NAME
050 7781 01 mov4men+1
089 7641 01 Clubland TV
090 7601 01 TV Warehouse
209 7681 01 POP+1
210 7741 01 Tiny Pop+1
)

As can be seen, "77 41" is Tiny Pop+1 with "00 25" its PMT PID.

Unsurprisingly, my LG telly finds no services on scanning this multiplex.


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Friday, 1 December 2017
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js
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8:40 AM

GIM or G-MAN has, it seems, been fixed, but the signal to noise ratio has dropped by about 10dB to 14dB.

My LG telly shows a signal of 8 percent and quality of 1 percent for GIM.

Even with such a poor signal, the LG managed to find seven services on GIM, which were initially put on 801 to 807.

A few seconds later, they were found on their correct LCNs.

The video off it is of course so corrupted as to be unwatchable.

091 'Now 80s' and 092 'Now XMAS' have been added to GIM, which now looks like this:

GIM
ONID.TSID = 233A.7401
762 MHz, uhf 57, 8 MHz, 16-QAM, 8k, 3/4, 1/32
Target Regions = (GBR.England.North West)U(GBR.Isle of Man)
(
LCN SID TYPE SERVICE NAME
050 7781 01 mov4men+1
089 7641 01 Clubland TV
090 7601 01 TV Warehouse
091 76C1 01 Now 80s
092 7701 01 Now XMAS
209 7681 01 POP+1
210 7741 01 Tiny Pop+1
)


'TalkingPictures TV' is up and running on Arqiva B.

Here's the current Relocated Services list:

Relocated Services: North West
Format:
service_name relocated from ONID.TSID.SID (OldMultiplexName) to ONID.TSID.SID (NewMultiplexName)

TJC relocated from 233A.3005.3824 (SDN) to 233A.5040.5A20 (Arqiva A)
TJC relocated from 233A.3006.3824 (SDN) to 233A.5040.5A20 (Arqiva A)
TJC relocated from 233A.3007.3824 (SDN) to 233A.5040.5A20 (Arqiva A)
TJC relocated from 233A.3008.3824 (SDN) to 233A.5040.5A20 (Arqiva A)
TalkingPictures TV relocated from 233A.A000.A120 (COM7) to 233A.6040.6E40 (Arqiva B)
TalkingPictures TV relocated from 233A.A001.A120 (COM7) to 233A.6040.6E40 (Arqiva B)

There's those two COM7s again.


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S wilson
10:12 PM
Ashton-under-lyne

Now80s showing 0 signal quality and signal strength of around 60 % roof aerial OL7 9EB

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Sunday, 3 December 2017
MikeP
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12:29 AM

S Wilson:

Check all your aerial cables and connections.



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Monday, 4 December 2017
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Robert Jones
11:42 PM
Ellesmere Port

Location: Ch66 3PT

I have a roof aerial (pointing to Winter Hill) but can currently only receive 2 mux's (PSB1 + COM5).
Early this year I could receive a lot more channels (mux's), but started losing channels over the last 2 months.
Any ideas?
- I've ruled out local interference as I have no nearby electrical equipment (VCR, Sky Box etc)

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