Full Freeview on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
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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?
Winter Hill transmitter - Winter Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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.
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 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.
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 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C12 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C24 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C40 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C54tv_off | -BBCB | -BBCB | -BBCB | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | ||
| C56tv_off | _local | _local | _local | LPR | |||||
| C57tv_off | GIM | GIM | GIM | GIM | |||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C61 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 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 GranadaWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Winter Hill transmitter area
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Thursday, 2 January 2014
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Walt5:53 PM
Stockport
Does anyone know if the GIM (formerly MEN) multiplex from Winter Hill is still transmitting. I've not been able to receive it the past few days. It was fine until about Christmas.
Thanks.
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Walt: Yes it is. Your issue is probably caused by its transmission not being as powerful as the main Freeview channels, as well as being directional rather than omni-directional (like the main Freeview channels).
See here:
Movies4Men | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Friday, 3 January 2014
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anthony3:03 PM
Manchester
I think its off air and has been since before Christmas. My TVs all show no signal at all being received, normally the signal is weak but useable. No one else seems to have noticed, given the appalling content and picture quality I'm not surprised.
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anthony7:15 PM
Manchester
Man Mux is back on air. Signal strength is slightly up and signal quality is quite high. Perhaps the engineers at winter hill unplugged it so they could use the socket to make a brew!
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Saturday, 4 January 2014
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Walt8:05 PM
Stockport
Yes, the Manchester Mux came back on sometime on Friday.
The film channels on there sometimes have something worth watching.
I guess we'll never know why it's been off-air - probably someone forgot to pay the bill!
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014
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Chris Critchley2:56 PM
Does anyone know why this is about one of the most laughable so-called 'improvements' in the history of mass-media?
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Michael4:46 PM
Chris Critchley: I can't comment on what strange thoughts go on inside your head.
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Monday, 13 January 2014
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Manuela Rusu10:01 AM
Lytham St. Annes
Hello
We just moved in a property, FY8 4HP in Lytham and we have a weak signal on some channels. We have a freeview digital TV. We don't know where is it from. We retuned the channels and the problem is still there. Maybe is from the transmitter? Could you check the strenght of the signal?
Thanks.
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linda8:15 PM
Manuela Rusu
You should be able to make that check yourself as your TV set should have that feature. But without a model number no one contributing here can give exact directions of how to do that.
Note that this website is not connected with the transmitter operators.
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014
WINTER HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:25 today to 10:46 today. FM: Radio 3 FM Reduced Quality from 20:03 on 11 Jan to 21:01 on 11 Jan. [BBC]
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