Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
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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._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
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 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.
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 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C40 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C54tv_off | LBN | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | SDN | ||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill transmitter area
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Sunday, 8 February 2015
L
Louise1:14 PM
Brighton
bn41 1sb
We dont have a Freeview box just digital TV's. We have had freeview on all our TVs until the last few days. We can reset our small TV, which now has its Freeview channels but our two large SAMSUNG tv's do not appear to have a Freeview reset!!!!!!! We recently disconnected from cable tv but can still get channels 1 to 5 if the box is turned on. Does this mean that our TV's have suddenly lost their compatibility with Freeview? What can we do to get the channels back? 8th February 2015
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jb384:10 PM
Louise: It would be of considerable assistance if the model numbers of the Samsungs were known, but though the main thing is that "if" you still have the cable box connected into the TV via a jumper lead, completely remove it followed by switching the TV off for about 10 seconds before switching it on again and checking if anything has changed.
However, minus the model number info, have a look in the set up menu and make sure "air" then "aerial" is selected as the signal source, as I feel that it will still be set on cable thereby cutting out the Freeview tuner.
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015
B
Bert9:24 PM
According to this site CBSAction is on 70
I get meesages on screen telling me that CBSAction is on 64
Some seem to receive CBSAction on 90
Can someone clarify the situation
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Thursday, 26 February 2015
J
jb388:43 AM
Bert: Any Freeview TV or box that can still view CBS Action on EPG70 requires retuning, as CBS Action moved to EPG64 on the 19th of this month.
As your posting has been made under the Whitehawk Hill heading, should you reside in the area covered by this transmitter and your TV or box has a "manual" tuning facility, select this then enter and scan C48 and this should correct the problem, CBS Action being being transmitted on Whitehawk Hills COM6 transmitter.
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Bert12:54 PM
J. Thanks for responding
If CBSAction has moved to 64, then how can people receive the programmes on say 70?
Why can some receive the signals on 90?
I know someon who can recieve CBSAction of 90, but no signal on 64
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MikeP
11:20 PM
11:20 PM
Bert
The numbers being given are Logical Channel Numbers (LCNs) and not the frequency channels previously used as nowadays each transmitted signal frequency carries several different programmes at the same time. Hence the need to refer to LCNs rather than particular frequencies. The numbers you are quoting are the LCNs being used by some people - though they should all appear on the same LCN unless the TV has not been retuned recently. The channel number being referred to for Whitehawk Hill the service in question is shown correctly as Channel 48 which is on 690 MHz which carries the COM6 group of programmes, as stated by jb38 in his submission. Other transmitters may have COM6 on different frequencies.
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Monday, 9 March 2015
S
Steve8:58 PM
which COM has CBSAction and the new Horror channel. I can't see them here?
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jb389:12 PM
Steve: Both CBS Action (LCN64) and the Horror channel (LCN70) are broadcast on COM6, which on the Whitehawk Hill transmitter is C48.
By the way, March 13th is indicated as the starting date for the Horror Channel.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015
J
jb3811:46 PM
Steve: Well, according to UK DTT's latest update on March 9th (link for below) they are being broadcast on Whitehawk Hills COM6 / C48.
Maybe the reason for them not being seen under the above mentioned COM6 is simply down to Briantist not having managed any time to update the list? as Vintage TV (242) is still under COM5 rather than COM4.
The question is, are you able to view any other programmes on Whitehawk's COM6 such as 4Music (18) or yesterday (19)?, if though you can, then have you tried "resetting" the TV or box prior to carrying out a retune? the resetting procedure also known as "manufacturers reset" / "default setting" / "first time installation" or similar name.
Freeview HD local/regional channel list | British Isles: England: Meridian: Whitehawk Hill
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