Freeview Light on the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 11,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Newhaven (East Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Newhaven transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C23 (490.0MHz) | 131m | DTG- | 400W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 131m | DTG- | 400W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C30 (546.0MHz) | 131m | DTG- | 400W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Newhaven (East Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Newhaven transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 41km north-northeast (21°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 66km north-northeast (31°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1970-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E K T | B E K T | B E K T | B E T | A K T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C8 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C40 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C41 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 2kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 3 January 2019
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David Hitchin6:37 PM
18:37 Thursday 3rd January
It appears that the Newhaven transmitter is out of action. There is no digital signal on any of the channels, but transmissions from Whitehawk are OK.
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carol halligan6:57 PM
carol Halligan
Peacehaven
18.55pm.
No TV signal on any channels for over an hour from Newhaven transmitter
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Terry hough7:48 PM
carol halligan: yes same here I'm currently watching tv online as I've tried resetting the TV and Ariel's no luck
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StevensOnln111:30 PM
David Hitchin, carol halligan & Terry hough: An engineering post has appeared which confirms that the transmitter was off air for around 2 hours earlier this evening. Resetting is never recommended during a sudden loss of signal as all it does it to delete all of the correctly tuned channels and search for them again.
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Sunday, 7 May 2023
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Michael Murphy12:56 PM
I am having problems picking up C30 HD from Newhaven on both my TV and my recorder in the last few days. C23 and C26 are working perfectly, but C30 produces no results at all. Having checked signal strength and signal quality, both are reported on the TV and recorder as good. There are no reported faults from the Newhaven Transmitter. Help.
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Chris.SE2:30 PM
Michael Murphy:
Recent weather conditions have caused some Tropospheric ducting/temperature inversion which can result in interfering signals from distant transmitters being received, which is what you may have experienced and in your case most likely from across the channel.
Such conditions have affected different parts of the UK at different times but may not be currently affecting your area. Such conditions are frequency dependent so not all multiplexes are affected, nor necessarily will all viewers in a particular location.
If you retuned when your signals were disrupted (never advised) this can just result in clearing the correct tuning and some times you end up tuned to an unstable distant signal that promptly disappears.
Try a MANUAL retune of your UHF channel C30 rather than a full retune which might affect the other multiplexes if there are still similar conditions present. You may have to try several times as you won't necessarily know when the signals on C30 are normal.
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Michael Murphy2:33 PM
Further to my problem with C30, I have now managed to sort it. I had previously tried to retune both machines without any success, even after doing a complete wipe of the tuning list and starting from scratch.
However, after doing a complete wipe, turning the TV and recorder off to clear any static, and then retuning each one, I finally managed to get C30 working properly on both machines.
What I still don't understand is how I managed to get the same problem at the same time with two separate machines.
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Michael Murphy2:48 PM
Hi Chris
thanks for your reply.
As you can see, with persistence, I have solved the problem that I had. It must have been static all along.
I aways do a manual tune of C23, C26, C30, C32, C33, C34 in order to pick up Newhaven and the transmissions I want from Whitehawk. I don't usually have any problems with Newhaven but the Whitehawk transmissions can get atmospheric interference sometimes, more often in the summer.
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Chris.SE5:36 PM
Michael Murphy:
The "trick" is not to retune when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures, it'll clear the correct tuning and sometimes "mis-tune" you to signals that are only briefly there.
The only time a retune is needed these days is when broadcasters (on the COM muxes normally) go swapping/changing their channels and you usually get a pop-up to tell you.
The only recent exception was the BBCB HD mux recently when they finally got Regional News on BBC ONE HD. Similar may be needed when ITV get theirs sorted.
You are only predicted to get variable reception from Whitehawk Hill which is why it's more vulnerable to co-channel interference when weather conditions are such, as you say, more common in summer, but we are seeing more of it at various times of year!
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