Thursday, 3 March 2011

Tenbury Wells TV transmitter


TENBURY WELLS transmitter - 3 March 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. 

Over the next week Tenbury Wells relay: 

TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, 

TV (digital) working normally, 

Radio (analogue) working normally, 

Radio (digital) working normally. 

More details

Despite being called the Tenbury Wells Transmitter, most of the Town of Tenbury Wells cannot receive a good signal from this transmitter.  The alternate transmitter for Tenbury is the Wrekin Transmitter and the current forecast (Poor likelihood of receiving services through an aerial.) seems to indicate that Tenbury will not be served by a strong enough digital signal after the switchover to receive television using Freeview.  It appears that the only option will be Freesat or Freesat from Sky or a Sky subscription service.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

im sure there could be a few complaints then if we dont receive a good signal specially with the anount that we are charged for a tv licence a year

@WR15 said...

I researched a number of industry websites for this, and they don't completely agree with each other. I hope that the signal is better than predicted, but it seems to be a case of wait and see.

Anonymous said...

really? what a suprise! didnt see that coming. By the way the wrekin transmitter is miles away so knobody should be suprised. Comment?

Anonymous said...

and its not all about signal strength. a week digital signal leaves you vunerable to all minor weather conditions,you should get an extra 40 plus channels but i fear we wont

@WR15 said...

Anyone knowledgeable about TV signals reading this. Is the Wrekin transmitter really the main one for Tenbury?

Anonymous said...

well, i always thought crete had one but what comes out of it post april i dunno (answers on a postcard)

Anonymous said...

It's all Greek to me.

Anonymous said...

sorry, that will be Greete them! Crete may well be a tad to far for a signal