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The symbol shows the location of the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter which serves 83,000 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 Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Brierley 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
 V max
C32- (561.8MHz)179mDTG-2,000W
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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
C34+ (578.2MHz)179mDTG-2,000W
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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
C35 (586.0MHz)179mDTG-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 max
C29 (538.0MHz)179mDTG-82,000W
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 max
C31- (553.8MHz)179mDTG-82,000W
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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 max
C37 (602.0MHz)179mDTG-82,000W
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

LB
 V -10dB
C33 (570.0MHz)179mDTG-12200W
Channel icons
from 31st October 2014: 7 Big Centre TV,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

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

regional news image
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km east (86°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
regional news image
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km east (86°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-137 Mar 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TA K T
C29LB
C31ArqA
C32BBCA
C33_local
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C37ArqB
C50tv_offSDN
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C55tv_offArqB
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+D3+4
C59tv_off-ArqA
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-BBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.

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

Analogue 1-4 10kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2kW
Mux 2*, Mux B*, LB(-17dB) 200W
Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux C*(-20dB) 100W
Mux D*(-21dB) 80W

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. Brierley Hill 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
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:34 AM

BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air; DSO related from 00:27 yesterday to 04:59 yesterday - No problems - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:25 yesterday to 05:04 yesterday [BBC]

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Briantist
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7:16 AM

Paul : An increase in signal strength will have no impact on the "crispness" or otherwise of a digital television signal. It is simply impossible as it is DIGITAL service not an ANALOGUE one. Please see How digital television works | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

The signal strength and the coloured boxes your devices use to indicate this is mostly irrelevant. What matters is that the QUALITY is sufficient for reception of the digital multiplex with no bit errors.

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Friday, 9 September 2011
Transmitter engineering
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4:36 AM

BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air; DSO related from 00:27 on 07 Sep to 04:59 on 07 Sep - No problems - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:25 on 07 Sep to 05:04 on 07 Sep [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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4:36 AM

BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air; DSO related from 00:27 on 07 Sep to 04:59 on 07 Sep - No problems - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:25 on 07 Sep to 05:04 on 07 Sep [BBC]

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Craig Jones
11:14 AM
Stourbridge

Lost BBC1 and BBC2 off my Humax 9200T freeview box a couple of days ago. Went through the retune stages as detailed elsewhere on this site (including retune with aerial disconnected) and all channels came back as normal. The problem I have now is with the EPG on the Humax, which is not loading all data for all channels... data for Monday and beyond is practically non-existant. I read on another page that I need to "add the 8k channel manually" until the switchover is complete, alas this means nothing to me :-/ Can anyone assist? Cheers, Craig

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Mike Dimmick
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12:26 PM

Craig Jones: On the Humax, make sure you do a 'Default Setting' to clear all existing channels before allowing it to auto-retune. Press MENU, go to Installation, enter the password (default is 0000) and select Default Setting.

This will delete the recording schedule and reset all other parameters to defaults as well as deleting the channel list before rescanning from scratch. You will need to restore the 16:9 mode if you have a widescreen TV (MENU > Preferences > A/V Control) and you might need to move the RF output to a different channel if it clashes with something (default is C36).

If that doesn't correct the problem, or that's what you've been doing, delete all the BBC channels - including any duplicates in the 800s - by pressing MENU, selecting Edit Channels, then Edit Channel Lists. Scroll through the list of channels pressing OK to select the ones to delete, then move the highlight to the Delete button and press OK. Press OK again to confirm.

You can then manually retune by pressing MENU, going to Installation, Manual Search. Highlight Channel, press OK, and select 60 from the drop-down list, then press OK. Move the highlight to the Search button and press OK to search that channel. It should list all the BBC channels - select Save to store them.

If it still doesn't work, do the Default Setting and cancel the automatic scan when it starts. Then use Manual Search to scan channels 60, 65, 56, 66 and 62. Don't scan the multiplex on C59, it now only broadcasts duplicates of a few channels on C60, plus Sky Sports 1 and 2 which are encrypted so you can't watch them anyway.

Hopefully on the 21st you will just be able to do an automatic rescan - you should use Default Setting again.

You may find that the box is storing off-beam signals from Ridge Hill or The Wrekin at the normal channel numbers, because they're on lower frequencies than the ones from Brierley Hill, which will be stored in the 800s. In that case, you will need to do a manual retune. (To check, while watching BBC One, press MENU and select Status, Signal Detection, and make a note of the channel number. If it is 26, that's The Wrekin/Bromsgrove/Lark Stoke, while 28 is Ridge Hill.).

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Craig Jones
3:28 PM
Stourbridge

Mike Dimmick: Thanks for you your prompt and thorough reply, much appreciated. I will try what you suggest over the weekend and report back on Monday.

Many thanks, Craig

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Monday, 12 September 2011
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Craig Jones
11:23 AM

Mike Dimmick: I ran through your various suggestions on Friday night. BBC was already mapped to channel 60, so instead I manually searched the channels you suggested. The result was that I still had problems with the EPG... the listings Friday through to Sunday were fine, but Monday onwards was very patchy with huge gaps in the listings... I made a list of all the channels that were missing the EPG thinking there may be some pattern, but there wasn't... even more strange, the listings would switch from time to time as well. For example, Monday was showing programmes for BBC1 and BBC2 but nothing for ITV or C4. Half hour later, BBC1 and BBC2 programmes had vanished off the list, but ITV and C4 had appeared! It definitely appeared as if something was clashing and causing the Humax to confuse itself.

The problem carried on throughout Saturday, however by Sunday morning I noticed that all channels had the EPG loaded for the full week, with no visible data missing at all. Touch wood, it appears to have been okay ever since.

Not quite sure what happened, or indeed if I fixed it or if it fixed itself. Many thanks for your assistance, I will keep your notes to hand should everything fall over again in a few weeks time...

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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Transmitter engineering
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5:56 AM

BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:55 today [BBC]

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5:56 AM

BRIERLEY HILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:55 today [BBC]

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