Transmitter identification (TxID) technique is used to diagnose the operation status of radio trans-mitters in DTV distributed transmission network. A new TxID method for digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) system is proposed. Watermark is embedded in the DVB-H signal to form the composite signal. Ac-cording to watermarking theory we demonstrate the required signal level for watermarking signal to achieve given bit error Probability under different circumstance. By selecting the reference pattern to generate watermarking signal, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the transmitted signal can be improved. Simulation results show that even in wireless situation the receiver can distinguish the watermarking signal with low embedding strength, and distortion to the host signal can also be ignored.