Please find below a list of upcoming 700MHz clearance events in Q1 2018.
Detailed technical information for installers and industry, including UHF channel changes, is available in regional documents following this table. These will be updated as further information is released. Some transmitter groups will have multiple retunes between now and mid-2020 as airwaves are released in stages.
Viewers served by affected transmitters in the groups listed will need to retune their TV equipment on the date shown, where this does not happen automatically.
Transmitter Group |
Area served |
Retune date |
Mendip (Cirencester) |
Cirencester |
7 February 2018 |
Sudbury |
parts of Suffolk and Essex |
7 February 2018 |
Tacolneston |
Norfolk and north Suffolk |
7 February 2018 |
Waltham |
much of the east Midlands |
7 February 2018 |
Mendip |
Bristol, parts of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire |
27 February 2018 |
Oxford |
Oxfordshire, parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire |
27 February 2018 |
The Wrekin (Bucknell, Clun, Coalbrookdale, Halesowen) |
Halesowen, Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge, and the Clun and Bucknell areas |
27 February 2018 |
Brierley Hill |
the Brierley Hill area |
1 March 2018 |
Malvern |
the Malvern area |
1 March 2018 |
Mendip (Clearwell) |
Clearwell |
1 March 2018 |
Ridge Hill |
Herefordshire, south Shropshire and parts of Gloucestershire |
1 March 2018 |
Wenvoe (Monmouth) |
Monmouth |
1 March 2018 |
Brierley Hill |
the Brierley Hill area |
7 March 2018 |
Bromsgrove |
the Bromsgrove area |
7 March 2018 |
Fenton |
Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme |
7 March 2018 |
Lark Stoke |
the Stratford-upon-Avon area |
7 March 2018 |
Malvern |
the Malvern area |
7 March 2018 |
Sutton Coldfield |
much of the West Midlands |
7 March 2018 |
The Wrekin |
north Shropshire and south Cheshire |
7 March 2018 |
Waltham (Belper) |
Belper |
7 March 2018 |
Winter Hill |
Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and north Staffordshire |
7 March 2018 |
Guildford |
the Guildford area |
14 March 2018 |
Whitehawk Hill |
the Brighton area |
14 March 2018 |
Crystal Palace |
Greater London and parts of the Home Counties |
21 March 2018 |
Dover |
south and east Kent, and parts of East Sussex |
21 March 2018 |
Hemel Hempstead |
the Hemel Hempstead area |
21 March 2018 |
Midhurst |
much of West Sussex |
21 March 2018 |
Reigate |
Reigate and parts of east Surrey and west Kent |
21 March 2018 |
Rowridge |
Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, parts of Dorset, Wiltshire and West Sussex |
21 March 2018 |
Nov 24 2017
700MHz clearance retunes for Q1 2018
Detailed technical information for installers and industry, including UHF channel changes, is available in regional documents following this table. These will be updated as further information is released. Some transmitter groups will have multiple retunes between now and mid-2020 as airwaves are released in stages.
Viewers served by affected transmitters in the groups listed will need to retune their TV equipment on the date shown, where this does not happen automatically.
By Expat • Freeview, UK Media News • Tags: 700MHz clearance, Freeview