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
Newhaven Freeview Newhaven DAB Heathfield TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 14 June 2012
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Terence5:34 PM
Living in the mid Peacehaven area - I would like to upgrade my ancient outdoor aerial to receive transmissions from Heathfield, instead of the limited number of channels from Newhaven. Can anyone recommend a specific pole mountable aerial, which would do the job as well as still being able to pick up Newhaven as a back up?
Thanks for any advice.
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Terence: If you're looking at DIYing, see www.aerialsandtv.com for the products that the professionals install, as well as information to help you with the task.
You won't find a single aerial that will work with both because aerials are directional and polarised.
It might be a good idea to use double-screened cable, particularly for the Heathfield aerial due the older stuff having greater loss and reception not being good.
ATV has a page on Heathfield, although the recommendations are somewhat out of date now as it was previously Group C/D and now is Group B:
Heathfield Transmitter
In particular, see also:
Satellite, Television, FM, DAB, Aerial, Coaxial Cable, Plugs, Sockets, Connectors & Leads
Online TV Splitters, Amps & Diplexers sales
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Terence9:38 PM
Much obliged Dave. I get my new Samsung smart TV tomorrow, and once it is set up will install the neew aerial/cable etc following your links, and report back with results. Thanks.
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Bill
9:56 PM
Newhaven
9:56 PM
Newhaven
Dave,
Thanks for the advice. My friend is still away, but I will comment again after I find out if his TV will tune in to Heathfield.
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Bill's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 16 June 2012
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Phil C10:26 PM
Newhaven
Unable to obtain BBC channels Bottom end Brighton Road - BN9 9NB up to today Sat 16th June. Do have the 10 itv c4 c5 e4 etc
Tried to manual tune ch 50 - no signal
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Phil's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 17 June 2012
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Tony1:14 PM
Who controls the selection of stations from Newhaven. I now have two 'Rabbit' programmes which are unwanted, yet other more important stations are missing.Where do I complain ?
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Tony: This is the two-tier terrestrial television transmitter network we now have, I'm afraid.
Newhaven only carries the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) multiplexes (groups of services).
Those that it doesn't broadcast are the Commercial (COM) multiplexes and these carry the likes of ITV3, Pick TV, Yesterday, Film 4 and Dave.
The COMs broadcast from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population) and cover about 90% of the population. The other 1,000 or so relays, including Newhaven, are PSB-only. The cost to the COMs of including the relays in their portfolio would roughly double their cost of transmission whilst only adding about 8.5% of the population to their potential viewer-base.
As they are run entirely as profit-making ventures and have no "Public Service" obligation, they decided to turn down the offer of additional coverage.
In some cases reception of COMs can be achieved from a station that carries them. Obviously this requires a new aerial and in some cases due to poor signal, a big aerial and sometimes big mast.
Failing that, the main option to get more channels is Freesat. There are some channels like Yesterday and Dave that are on full Freeview (COM) but not Freesat.
I'm sorry it's not what you were hoping for. It's a common question and I believe that "Freeview Lite" has got to be the biggest let-down, particularly as mention of this inferior service doesn't feature in any of advertising. "Subject to coverage" fails to make clear that not all channels are available in all areas.
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Mark Fletcher3:34 PM
Barnsley
Tony in Newhaven.If your appliance allows you,you can manually delete the two unwanted Rabbit channels you wish as such.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 23 June 2012
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Campbell Thomson10:54 PM
Seaford
I live in a six-floor block of flats in Seaford at BN25 1EA. I Ordered BT Vision and it is now all set up and working fine. The aerial is on the roof and points to Newhaven I am told. I had no idea before ordering this, that Newhaven's transmitter only delivers the inferior Freeview-light service but this forum has put me right. I'm confused by one thing though. Isn't the Freeview-light service meant to include the four PSB HD channels (BBC1, BBC HD, ITV1 and 4HD)? My BT Vision V-box has picked up no trace of these at all. Any ideas?
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Campbell's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Campbell Thomson: I understand that the BT Vision box is not a HD receiver and therefore the HD services are not receivable with it.
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