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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.

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)131mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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)131mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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)131mDTG-400W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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the effected channels
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the effected 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?

regional news image
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.
regional news image
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?

1970-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1319 Jul 2018
VHFB E K TB E K TB E K TB E TA K T
C6ITVwaves
C8BBCtvwaves
C23BBCA
C26D3+4
C30BBCB
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C40BBCB
C41C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C50tv_offBBCA

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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Bill
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

9:38 AM
Newhaven

Just after 9am I was finally able to tune into all the BBC channels.

The quality of the old analogue signal was awful and also in 4:3.

Digital picture vast improvement, but still softer than on Freesat in SD. Could play with TV settings, but that will affect Freesat picture as well.

I find the Standard Def picture on Freesat very good if original broadcast is done in HD.

At least now I will be able to record two channels on Freesat and still be able to watch another channel on Freeview.

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

12:26 PM

Bill: Sorry to jump in here, but one cause of Freeview pictures not looking as good as from an external box is the use of the "sharpening" setting on the TV. If you can find such a thing in the TV's picture settings, you will need to turn it off to get the best possible Freeview pictures.

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Bill
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12:31 PM
Newhaven

Briantist,
I remember when I first got the TV I was not impressed with the picture. Then found people on the net saying turn of ALL the picture enhancing settings, which improved things.

I need to check the settings to see if they are off as I have altered them recently.

Thanks.

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Andrew Dandridge
10:35 PM
Seaford

Well now we have no signal on our small digital tv at all. Tried an booster aeriel and nothing. Main tv is perfect. Bedroom tv only works on satelite. Freeview direct is zero. I thought when switch over took place all would be great. It's rubish! I have tried channel scans over and over again all to no avail. What are we supposed to do.

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Thursday, 31 May 2012
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:14 AM

Andrew Dandridge: If your small TV runs off a set-top aerial, and the main aerial (that serves the main TV) faces the same transmitter, then take the TV to it to tune it.

If you are tuning to the Newhaven transmitter, then it is currently broadcasting only one multiplex and thus there is only one UHF channel to scan for. It is C50, so if you the device has manual tuning, use it.

You should also be aware that the Newhaven transmitter will carry Public Service channels only; it will not carry Commercial channels such as Film4 and Dave.

If you received Freeview before switchover, then you must have been picking it up from another transmitter. All transmitters that carry low-power Freeview before switchover are full-service transmitters after switchover. In such circumstances, you may be able to receive the full service from another transmitter such as Whitehawk or Rowridge.

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Bill
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

9:17 AM
Newhaven

Briantist,
Re picture quality on my Toshiba TV on Freeview.

You were correct, I found two noise reduction settings, DNR and MPEG NR were both set to ON. Now they are off, both Freview and Freesat pictures look similar in quality.



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Bill
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

9:24 AM
Newhaven

Re Newhaven only having Public Service channels.

Can't see why that couldn't include ITV3 and ITV4 before including +1 channels. Also aren't 5* and 5USA also free to air?

Will there be any room for adding extra channels in the future?

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Saturday, 2 June 2012
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H. Gravett
8:56 PM
Peacehaven

Have bought 2 new Freeview TV's for kids bedrooms, both different makes. Also have a older Freeview tv & our main tv of 6 years, but has Freeview tuner. All work off same aerial. One of the kids TV's can pick up 32 channels, 2 other TV's can get 11 channels & main tv only gets 7 channels. Tried several re-tunes with no change. Why is there a difference in number of channels rec'd? Will this be corrected on 13th?

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:17 PM

H. Gravett: Which transmitter is the aerial directed to?

Have you been able to receive Freeview on the main TV before last Wednesday?

Have you tried taking the two TVs to the main room and tuning them in?

Which channels have and have not been picked up? In particular, I ask the question in relation to BBC One, ITV1, ITV3, Pick TV and Yesterday.

Are there any channels numbered from 800 onwards?

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Dave Lindsay
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9:36 PM

H. Gravett: In answer to your question of why some receivers may pick up some channels and not others are:

- differing sensitivities of the tuners, particularly affected where signals are near borderline.

- differing leads from the point of distribution.


Do these channel totals include radio channels as well as TV ones?

I would be more concerned with whether you are receiving all channels that are being broadcast by the transmitter to which the aerial faces. You've said that they all use the same aerial, so where is it pointing? Is it to the Newhaven transmitter which is at 134 degrees with the aerial vertical? Or maybe it's Heathfield at 37 degrees with the aerial horizontal?

With any, you should certainly be receiving all BBC standard definition TV and radio channels as they are now on full power; i.e. they have "switched".

For a full list of post-switchover services, see here:

DMOL Post-DSO Multiplex Channel Allocations

You should have all those in the PSB1 (BBC) table where there is a bullet in the "E" (England) column.

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