Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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The symbol shows the location of the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 96,000 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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Whitehawk Hill 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	C48- (689.8MHz)	171m	DTG-	4,000W
	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	C35 (586.0MHz)	171m	DTG-	4,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast 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	C36 (594.0MHz)	171m	DTG-	4,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C33 (570.0MHz)	164m	DTG-8	4,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C57 (762.0MHz)	171m	DTG-8	4,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C32 (562.0MHz)	171m	DTG-8	4,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LBN	V -10dB	C40 (626.0MHz)	171m	DTG-12	400W
	from 8th July 2014: 7 Latest TV,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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 Whitehawk Hill transmitter?

BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 80km west (274°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford

How will the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1950s-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	16 Oct 2019
	VHF	C/D E	E	E	C/D E T	W T
C2	BBCtv_waves
C34						ArqA
C35			C5_waves	C5_waves		D3+4
C36						BBCB
C40						_local
C48					ArqB	ArqB
C51_{tv_off}					BBCB
C53_{tv_off}		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4
C54_{tv_off}						LBN
C56_{tv_off}					ArqA
C57_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	SDN	SDN
C60_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-BBCA	BBCA
C63		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	10kW
Analogue 5	(-3dB) 5kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-4dB) 4kW
Mux B*	(-10dB) 1000W
Mux 2, Mux C, Mux D*, LBN	(-14dB) 400W
Mux 1, Mux A	(-17dB) 200W

Local transmitter maps

Whitehawk Hill Freeview Whitehawk Hill DAB Whitehawk Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (South Coast micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Whitehawk Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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jay

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1:10 AM

with no warning,.

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jay

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1:11 AM

(starts midnight, ends by 6am) - BBC TWO closes on , Mux 1 closes on , BBCA starts on C24.

(starts midnight, ends by 6am) - BBC TWO analogue closes on , ITV 1 analogue moves to from , Mux 1 closes on , BBCA starts on .

(starts midnight, ends by 6am) - BBC TWO analogue C60 closes. ITV 1 analogue swaps to C63 from C60. BBCA starts on C60. Multiplex 1 closes. Mux A moves from C55 to C66.

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Jenno
1:14 AM

Well I was in the middle of watching a film and boom it went down and there is nothing. The multiple retunes don't find anything except ch5

Any ideas how long this will take? Whole of Brighton without TV.... what will be do with ourselves!

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KT
1:14 AM

Many thanks for the info Jay.

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jay

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1:16 AM
Brighton

Ch5 isn't on same group :)

I thought they would have done it bit by bit.!

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Jenno
1:17 AM

Ah just read your post Jay. Thanks for that. I would have hopes for a warning that this would take hours!

Maybe I'll try a book for a change!

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jay

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1:17 AM
Brighton

@jenno: LOL yeah.. maybe I may watch what I recorded earlier!!

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jay

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1:18 AM
Brighton

They could have warned people, many are probably panicking LOL.

and this site says "The BBC and UK report there are no faults or work on the ." << which is kind of wrong!

information was from this site, I can't take credit for that !

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chris servante
1:22 AM
Lancing

this is ridiculous worked perfectly till some clever person decided to switch off the and the the freeview (12.15 am) ... why ??????? I have no television to watch thank you freeview and your website says nothing !
FREEVIEW IS NOT WORKING why not ?

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jay

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1:58 AM
Brighton

yippie back :)

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