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 withheldWednesday, 30 October 2013
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Chris Bevins7:44 PM
Seaford
My in-laws live in Seaford and experience picture and sound break up quite often. After last weekends stormy weather they were unable to receive an uninterrupted signal so they called in a local tv engineer to investigate the problem. Their rooftop aerial and tv were found to be ok - the fault was put down to signals from the Isle of Wight transmitter interrupting Newhaven with a clicking sound? The problem was alleged to be a well known issue, according to the tv engineer. Seems remarkable in this age of technology that an issue of this nature cannot be addressed. Any help would be appreciated.
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Chris Bevins: I'm not quite sure what is being referring to. The Isle of Wight transmitter is Rowridge and cannot interfere with that from the Newhaven transmitter as they broadcast on different UHF channels (frequencies).
Have you or has your in-laws confirmed that they are tuned to the Newhaven transmitter and are not, unwittingly, watching the output of another transmitter such as Rowridge or Whitehawk Hill (Brighton)?
Newhaven transmitter only carries Public Service channels (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a few others), so if they get the Commercial ones (ITV3, Pick TV, Dave, 4Music and others) then those must be coming from elsewhere. Thus the question must be which channels are being referred to?
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Chris Bevins8:50 PM
Dave Lindsay: Many thanks for your response. The comments made by the tv engineer seemed rather odd to me but Mum and Dad were pleased to get their primary source of entertainment working ok again so they didn't question the explanation. We live some distance away from them so can't readily answer your questions. Dad was also told not to retune the tv by the engineer, which I also find odd, but may hold the answer to some of your questions
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Chris Bevins: The point about not retuning may have been made because it is now tuned the correct transmitter and therefore that any dabbling in with the tuning can only ever result in the same result (i.e. tuned to the correct transmitter as before) or worse, it being tuned to the wrong transmitter.
The point is that there are six multiplexes (signals) for terrestrial television. Each carries a number of services. See here for a list of the multiplexes:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
The PSB (Public Service) channels are available from all transmitters and serve everywhere that the former four-channel analogue was available. The COM (Commercial) channels broadcast from 81 of the larger transmitters, which doesn't include Newhaven.
Thus some viewers only get the PSB channels. Some may get intermittent COMs, and I wonder if your in-laws could be in that position.
Judging by the Digital UK predictor they may be able to receive COMs from Rowridge or Whitehawk Hill. In the case of Whitehawk, it is on the same bearing as Newhaven, so the aerial is pointing in the right direction. However, it could be intermittent if the terrain blocks line-of-sight.
If, having tried reception of COMs from Rowridge and Whitehawk they remain intermittent then there is not a lot else that can be tried. They must accept that they are not reliably served by these channels.
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Thursday, 31 October 2013
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J Vance9:50 AM
Peacehaven
Is the Newhaven transmitter down? I live in BN10 7SS and have no signal. Aerial is in the lot
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Michael Murphy10:02 AM
I'm also not receiving a Newhaven signal in Seaford (BN25). The transmitter must be down.
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Robert Thornton12:04 PM
Any idea when newhaven transmitter is coming back on line please??
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Michael12:46 PM
Robert Thornton: Presumably when the problem is fixed.......
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Saturday, 14 December 2013
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Dave8:48 PM
I live near the top of the hill in Denton and lived in Bishopstone near Seaford previously (inc. BN - Before Newhaven) and have always been fortunate enough to receive a good signal from Brighton.
This summer I (and a neighbour) had problems with the Newhaven signal pixellating and dropping out so I have made sure that I only receive signals from Whitehawk by manually tuning the receiver(s). This process is detailed elsewhere and can involve only connecting the aerial after 80-odd percent of the tuning process has been completed (and then careful checking with transmitter details) - time consuming but worthwhile!
Weather conditions can still give the occasional problem eg last weeks mist and fog but generally tv life is good.
Hope this might help someone on highish ground east of Brighton......
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Tuesday, 17 December 2013
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Simon9:42 AM
I tunned in to C50 on my TV and had untill yesterday all BBC channels and then they disappear and I cant reselect C50. I live in BN32RP
Very frustrating. All BBC channels used work perfectly and then a few months ago all gone. Managed to get them back yesterday using help from this site but this morning they are gone again!
Very frustrating. Any help
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