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53.410,-2.071 or 53°24'37"N 2°4'14"W

SK6 4HJ

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Romiley (Stockport, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Romiley (Stockport, England) transmitter which serves 5,400 homes.

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Winter Hill region

BBC North West

Granada

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

What do the colours on the map mean?

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.

List by multiplex|List by channel number|List by channel name|See terrain plot

Which Freeview channels does the Romiley 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	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C44 (658.0MHz)	167m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2W
	1 BBC One North West, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	167m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2W
	3 ITV (Granada), 4 Channel 4 North ads, 5 Channel 5 The North ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 North ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Granada),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C47 (682.0MHz)	167m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2W
	101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Are you trying to watch these 27 Freeview channels?

The Romiley (Stockport, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, BBC Red Button 2, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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 Romiley transmitter?

BBC North West Tonight 3.1m homes 11.7%
from Salford M50 2QH, 17km west-northwest
to BBC North West region - 90 masts.

ITV Granada Reports 3.1m homes 11.6%
from Salford M50 2EQ, 17km west-northwest
to ITV Granada region - 80 masts.

How will the Romiley (Stockport, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	B E	B E	B E	B E K	B E K	B E K
	C41	ITV	ITV	ITV	+D3+4	+D3+4	+D3+4
	C44	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C47	C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
700	C51	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 4th November and 2nd December 2009.

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

Analogue 1-4	11W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 2.2W

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. Romiley 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.

Your comments: most recent posts are at the bottom

Your comments are always welcome. Please use the form below to add your thoughts or questions to this page. We will get back to you as soon as we can.

Dave
Tuesday 21 October 2008 8:36PM Stockport

When the Romiley analogue transmitter shuts down in Nov 2009, will it resume as a digital transmitter? I can just receive a digital signal from the opposite direction (Winter Hill) but there is better line-of-sight to the Romiley transmitter because of intervening hills, houses and the fact that I am in a bungalow.
If it is only going to be Winter Hill I may decide to go for Freesat now.

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Briantist
Tuesday 21 October 2008 8:56PM

Dave: Yes, that's what it says above... You will get more services today from Freesat than you will at switch-over from this transmitter.

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Oliver
Tuesday 10 November 2009 8:10PM

Help! my aerial points towards winter hill, and when we switched over we lost all bbc channels and started recieving welsh channels, im using a pioneer ONdigital box to recieve tv and ive re-tuned many many times!

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Briantist
Tuesday 10 November 2009 9:58PM

Oliver: Please read www.ukfree.tv link icon

Manchester and North West - switch off starts Wednesday 4th November | ukfree.tv - independent digital TV + switchover advice, since 2002 - you need a new box.

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Jim
Sunday 22 November 2009 8:00AM

When Romiley is fully switched over will we recivev ALL
the digital channels currently enjoyed from Winter Hill
or is it limited due to bandwidth.

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Briantist
Monday 23 November 2009 3:40PM

Jim: There is no bandwidth limitation, but the commercial operators do not consider this transmitter to be economic, so you will get only the channels listed at the top of the page.

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Bob Cunliffe
Tuesday 16 February 2010 9:36PM

Has anything changed since November?

Will the Romiley transmitter ever have more channels.
Romiley is behind a hill and I live behind the railway embankment and so the Winterhill signal is very weak.

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LutonFan
Tuesday 16 February 2010 10:42PM

Bob Cunliffe- As per Briantists reply to Jim dated 23 November, You will only receive two Mux's, unless Arquiva change their current stand.

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Briantist
Monday 22 February 2010 5:48AM

LutonFan: Plus Freeview HD, of course!

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Briantist
Monday 22 February 2010 5:48AM

Bob Cunliffe: This is not commercially viable for more services.

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LutonFan
Saturday 27 February 2010 4:14PM Bedford

Briantist- Sorry, forgot about the third MUX!

383 posts

Briantist
Thursday 4 March 2010 1:50PM

LutonFan: They will get around to switching it on here soon. Very soon.

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Alan
Saturday 25 June 2011 1:48PM Stockport

I am shortly going to move to SK6 3AP.
i CANNOT DO A TEST, SO CAN YOU TELL ME IF i WILL GET ALL fREEVIEW channels, or will I have to consider Virgin, Sky or even freesat

Many Thanks
Alan

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Briantist
Sunday 17 July 2011 12:16PM

Alan: You will get a full Freeview service from the Winter Hill at that postcode.

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Transmitter engineering
Monday 21 May 2012 1:29PM

ROMILEY transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:58 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:58 today [BBC]

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