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Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

53.625,-2.516 or 53°37'30"N 2°30'56"W

BL6 6SL

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

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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C32 (562.0MHz)	726m	DTG-	100,000W
	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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C34 (578.0MHz)	726m	DTG-	100,000W
	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, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Granada),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C35- (585.8MHz)	726m	DTG-	100,000W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H max	C29 (538.0MHz)	726m	DTG-8	100,000W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! movies action, 46 Channel 5 +1, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 74 Dave ja vu, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 203 CITV, 208 Pop Player, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 15 others
COM5 ArqA	H max	C31 (554.0MHz)	726m	DTG-8	100,000W
	11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 57 Smithsonian Channel, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 75 Yesterday +1, 83 Together TV, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	H max	C37 (602.0MHz)	726m	DTG-8	100,000W
	12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 71 Quest Red +1, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 88 Classic Hits, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 19 others
LM	H -20dB	C40 (626.0MHz)	572m	DTG-12	1,000W
	from 1st October 2014: 7 That's Manchester,
LL	H -17dB	C24 (498.0MHz)	572m	DTG-12	2,000W
	from 30th June 2014: 7 Bay TV Liverpool,
LPR	H -20dB	C56 (754.0MHz)	572m	DTG-12	1,000W
	from 1st October 2014: 7 That's Lancashire,
GIM	H -20dB	C57 (762.0MHz)	572m	DTG-2	1,000W
	Spotlight TV, Now 70s, Country Music Entertainment , 63 GREAT! movies Christmas 1, 77 NOW 80s, 80 Clubland TV, 87 Now 90s, 91 Classic Hits MCR,

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?

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	ITV_waves
C12	BBCtv_waves
C24								_local
C29								SDN
C31							com7	com7
C32								BBCA
C34								D3+4
C35								BBCB
C37							com8	com8
C40								LOCAL2
C48			C5_waves	C5_waves
C49_{tv_off}						ArqA	ArqA
C50_{tv_off}						BBCA	BBCA
C54_{tv_off}					-BBCB	-BBCB	-BBCB
C55_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	ArqB	ArqB	ArqB	com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}					_local	_local	_local	LPR
C57_{tv_off}					GIM	GIM	GIM	GIM
C58_{tv_off}					SDN	SDN	SDN
C59_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
C61					ArqA
C62		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA
C65		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

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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 Granada

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

May 1956-Jul 1968	Granada Television†
May 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	Granada Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Comments

Sunday, 12 November 2017

gordon holt
6:38 PM

I am a talk talk customer who supplied me with a box and I cannot tune into bbc 4 hd or , is there a difference between and youview do I need to change to free view to recieve these hd channels
wa27gb

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gordon holt
6:42 PM

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

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StevensOnln1

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7:45 PM

gordon holt: boxes are capable of receiving all . COM7 (the which carries BBC 4 HD and ) should have excellent at your location just 25km from the . 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 which was designed for receiving frequencies in the higher end of the UHF band (COM7 is broadcast on from Winter Hill which is well below the range a group C/D aerial was designed to receive).

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Friday, 24 November 2017

Charles Carruthers
2:48 PM

I have two Samsung Smart TVs. One receives a directly from the and to my knowledge has 'collected' all of the available . The other TV which is power-boosted a short distance away appears to receive all channels with the exception of 81 Talking Pictures and Channel 82 . 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 is the decider on whether or not they get successfully tuned? Kind regards and advanced thanks.

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MikeB

_{sentiment_very_satisfied}Platinum

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 it up. So if you havn't got one, your not going to get them.

Also check they are tuned to the same . If both TV's have HD tuners, but one is tuned to a transmitter that doesn't carry those , 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 , why is the other one connected to it?

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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

_{sentiment_satisfied}Gold

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 :

GIM
ONID.TSID = 233A.7401
762 MHz, uhf 57, 8 MHz, 16-QAM, 8k, 3/4, 1/32
Target Regions = (GBR.England.North )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 +1
210 7741 01 +1
)

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

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

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Friday, 1 December 2017

_{sentiment_satisfied}Gold

8:40 AM

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

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

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

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

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

091 '' 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 )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 +1
210 7741 01 +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)

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 and signal strength of around 60 % OL7 9EB

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Sunday, 3 December 2017

MikeP

_{sentiment_very_satisfied}Platinum

12:29 AM

S Wilson:

Check all your cables and connections.

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Monday, 4 December 2017

Robert Jones
11:42 PM
Ellesmere Port

Location: Ch66 3PT

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

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