South-West and Borders (Cumbria/S Scotland) are shown as complete on the map on that Digital UK site www.digitaluk.co.uk/whendo_iswitch/
Sky is offering deals for Granada, Wales and people served by transmitter group in one part of the South-West www.sky.com/granada and www.sky.com/wales have small print that says their free box deal only applies in those three areas.
(NB Box free, but minimum monthly rental of 25.50 for a year, and installation cost of 30 quid, and presumably when VAT goes back to 17.5 that'll be passed on.)
Guess they will do leaflets in other areas over the next few years. First offer was for box at 49.99 I think. Only latest one offers boxes (normal and HD) for free.
edam That website indicates whether other signals are likely to be found. Clearly there's a chance for you to get Anglia, Central, or Meridian (if you are to the south/west)
foxinsocks the radio is completely different set of frequencies, but might have had some work done to improve DAB in the area you drove, as there seem to be various amounts of radio transmitter work going on as well as the TV transmitter work (often in similar locations, hilltops etc)
LIZS - just wondered whether that postcode checker thing shows you should be able to get more signals? They have a link with the name of the transmitter that serves an area, and then there may be a link saying alternative transmitters.
wmmc Sorry, no idea if that TV is just 'fussy' but dooyoo.co.uk might have comments from other owners. Is there no analogue because of location such as South West (your face on profile made me think that!) or Borders ? Or just surrounded by trees/ hills and poor signals as a result ?
I just checked the situation for The Wrekin (Central) and Winter Hill (Granada). Those are two "main" transmitter sites, with other chains of repeaters fed from them.
Two of the (several) changes spread over a number of weeks will be adjustments to transmitter channel numbers but more will change the directions of aerials, to cover different areas (towns), so all is not 'lost' as far as the situation for those currently getting a fraction of the full set of channels.
Of course some of the channels may not be wanted (Television X, Babestation, Russia Today !) and others might be desperately wanted but simply not in range. I've not seen figures for 'complete coverage' as far as Freeview, but FreeSat would go higher - only a small number of places are going to have hills and trees or other buildings which would be well above the home and affect a satellite signal.
Understood that there'd be problems with a listed building, but there have been garden-level satellite dishes available for years, and if you want to have the fuller range of channels - perhaps a hundred useful ones, compared with under 50, and in some cases under a dozen - then an outdoor dish not in view of the street, and a FreeSat box, might be a solution.