Freeview: Long Compton (Warwickshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter
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Freeview Light on the Long Compton (Warwickshire, England) transmitter

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This transmitter has no current reported problems

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

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The symbol shows the location of the Long Compton (Warwickshire, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 homes.

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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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.


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Which Freeview channels does the Long Compton transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 vertical max
C25 (506.0MHz)168m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
4W
Channel icons
1 BBC One West Midlands, 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
C22 (482.0MHz)168m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
4W
Channel icons
3 ITV (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 Midlands ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Central west),

PSB3
BBCB
 vertical max
C28 (530.0MHz)168m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
4W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others



Are you trying to watch these 27 Freeview channels?



The Long Compton (Warwickshire, 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 Long Compton transmitter?


BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 57km north-northwest
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.

ITV Central News 2.6m homes 9.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 57km north-northwest
to ITV Central (West) region - 46 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)

How will the Long Compton (Warwickshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

years1984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-18
aerial groupA KA KA KA KA KA K
C22BBC1BBC1BBC1D3+4D3+4D3+4
C25ITVITVITVBBCABBCABBCA
C28BBC2BBC2BBC2BBCBBBCBBBCB
600C32C4C4C4

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz 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 7th September and 21st September 2011.

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

Analogue 1-4, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 4W

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. Long Compton 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.


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Transmitter engineering
Monday 10 January 2011 9:41AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Over the next week Long Compton relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Monday 10 January 2011 4:43PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - 11 January 2011: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Channel 4. Digital services - N/A [DUK] Over the next week Long Compton relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Tom
Wednesday 13 April 2011 3:58PM Shipston-on-stour
I live in Long Compton and only just this month we've been able to get Freeview. Problem is that I can only seem to get BBC-related channels, so no ITV, C4 or 5. Tried everything I can think of plus all the suggestions I've read here and still channels are missing.

Could it be that the switchover has to take place for it to work properly? Does anyone else have the same problem? All suggestions welcome.
Briantist
Wednesday 13 April 2011 4:18PM
Tom: Yes, you will not get any more channels until switchover happens. If you want more channels today, use Freesat instead.
Transmitter engineering
Monday 1 August 2011 12:03PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 09:20 today BBC TWO Off Air from 09:20 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Monday 1 August 2011 5:54PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 09:20 today to 15:12 today BBC TWO Off Air from 09:20 today to 15:12 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 2 August 2011 4:40AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 09:20 yesterday to 15:12 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air from 09:20 yesterday to 15:12 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 3 August 2011 4:38AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 09:20 on 01 Aug to 15:12 on 01 Aug BBC TWO Off Air from 09:20 on 01 Aug to 15:12 on 01 Aug [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Monday 19 November 2012 7:49PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 18:12 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Monday 19 November 2012 10:49PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 18:12 today to 18:16 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 20 November 2012 7:49AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 18:12 yesterday to 18:16 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 21 November 2012 4:50AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 18:12 on 19 Nov to 18:16 on 19 Nov [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 5 December 2012 1:49PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:47 today to 11:09 today HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:47 today to 11:09 today [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 6 December 2012 4:49AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:47 yesterday to 11:09 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:47 yesterday to 11:09 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 7 December 2012 4:49AM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:47 on 05 Dec to 11:09 on 05 Dec HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:47 on 05 Dec to 11:09 on 05 Dec [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:03PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview - No reported problems -. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:58PM
LONG COMPTON transmitter - Freeview No problems on any service. [BBC]
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