Freeview Coverage in Marple Bridge

[Mike in Marple]

I wasn't reviewing it!!!  Just informing people that normally if you can recieve channel 5 (wether you watch it or not) you can get freeview

[orangewhip]

Channel 5 is awful.  Channel 4 takes risks and has genuinely thought-provoking documentaries, films, and The Simpsons.  ITV is the televisual equivalent of The Sun, ITV News having some of the most sensationalist scare-mongering reportage that it barely qualifies as news ('We tell you what to do and how afraid you should be' - actual quote during the Sudan 1 'food scare'!'>  BBC 2 is good, informative, like an old professor.  BBC 1 is poor.  

Anyway, Channel 5.  Like a cornered oddity, best left alone.

[Mike in Marple]

Do you get channel five?

Normally, if you get channel five you can get freeview

Freeview comes from Winter Hill - NW Manchester or Moel y Parc in Wales; the Welsh one will have the Welsh collection of programmes. Winter Hill is Horizontally polarised ie the aerial elements need to be horizontal, I'm not sure about Moel y Parc. You will almost certainly need a good wideband aerial and a signal booster though simply using your current one and setting the right polarisation should give you some indication of what to expect.

I get good Free-view Reception form the John St, Church Lane area, my aerial points toward Stockport.

My Daughter gets a good signal and she lives up the hill opposite Ludworth School at Marple Bridge.

Although i suppose there could be some doubt if you are in the same dip as Town St Etc

[sgk]

Like many other people in the area, I'm on NTL for my broadband + cable TV.

Wondered about switching to ADSL for broadband and freeview for my TV.  However, according to the Freeview Postcode Checker website, much of Marple Bridge isn't covered by their transmitters.

Anyone have any freeview success/failure stories they can share, particularly around the Hollins Lane area of Marple Bridge?

Thanks,

Steve.