Freeview Light on the Faversham (Kent, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Faversham (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 6,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Faversham (Kent, England) mast?
Faversham transmitter - Faversham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Faversham (Kent, 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 Faversham 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 | C21 (474.0MHz) | 64m | DTG- | 20W |
 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 | C24 (498.0MHz) | 64m | DTG- | 20W |
 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 | C27 (522.0MHz) | 64m | DTG- | 20W |
 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 Faversham (Kent, 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 Faversham transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 47km west-southwest (244°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 23km west (261°)
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 Faversham (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C24 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C27 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 20W | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-1.9dB) 13W |
Local transmitter maps
Faversham Freeview Dover TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Dover transmitter area
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018
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StevensOnln111:12 PM
.: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? The current hot weather conditions are causing TV and radio signals to travel much further than they normally would, resulting in interference from distant transmitters causing reception problems in various parts of the country which may be a factor. Do not attempt to retune.
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Monday, 2 July 2018
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No, nothing wrong with cable connections. I could get radio stations, shopping and music channels. But the normal channels just werent there
So how can I solve it? When we went digital they kept saying atmospheric disruption, channel break up and losing channels would be a thing of the past. But it seems to be getting worse every year!
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StevensOnln112:09 PM
.: Who said atmospheic pressure etc would be a thing of the past? Digital TV uses the same frequency bands previously used by analogue TV and there is nothing that make digital signal behave any differently to analogue when broadcast through the air.
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MikeP
4:31 PM
4:31 PM
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Atmospheric conditions have affected high frequency signal transmissions for a great many years and that has not changed at all. It's not got worse or better but is subjsct the precise conditions found in the layers of the atmosphere most responsible for the propogation of RF signals. It is a perfectly natural phenomenon so noby has any control over it.
There have not been any substantiated claims that digital brodcasting will be any different from analogue. As StevensOnln1 says "there is nothing that make digital signal behave any differently to analogue when broadcast through the air."
So it is not because the transmissions are digitally encoded, analogue transmissions are equally affected.
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Thursday, 19 July 2018
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You say its not got worse! But for the last 2-3 weeks its been terrible have only been able to get a few channels and never the ones I watch like Spike, Quest, E4. Never used to lose signal as much as now
Kept getting a message up to say a retune was needed before a certain date, but only been able to get a few channels when Im home, so dont want to do a retune and lose what channels I can get!
How can I solve it or is it a case of waiting for the conditions to change? Or getting sky?
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Friday, 20 July 2018
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Ive done a retune this morning, but missing lots of channels.
11 Pick
12 Dave
17 Really
23 Create and Craft
29 E4+1
32 Sony Movie Channel
38 Quest Red
40 Sony Crime Channel
41 Food Network UK
43 Gems TV
45 Film4 +1
46 Challenge
And loads more after that!
Surely it should find them even if it cant get a signal to receive them?
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I really have no idea now!
The freeview pvr has found all the channels tonight when Ive retuned, but cant view itv, channel 4, Channel 5, itv2 as no signal (dont know about any others) But I can get itv, channel 4 and channel 5 on the HD channels (I was given the option of the kent or london receiver) so I chose Kent
It was getting these channels before the swap over recently
Ive also retuned the tv to kent, and that can get itv, channel 4 (though it keeps breaking up) channel 5 and itv2 (keeps breaking up) dont know if it cant get any on the tv?
Other TVs in the house seem to be able to get most channels?
My pvr is new only got a few days ago
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Sunday, 29 November 2020
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fred10:58 PM
Had no signal on most freeview channels for the nearly 5 days now!!
Whats going on???? Sort it out!
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Monday, 30 November 2020
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Chris.SE4:33 AM
fred:
For this independent help-site to provide the best help, a full postcode is normally required to look at predicted reception at your location. However, the Faversham transmitter has recently been on Planned Engineering where you may have had Weak signal or Service interruptions.
You are always best advised NOT to retune when you have No Signal messages or pixellated pictures, are more often than not this just clears correct tuning and you have to retune when signals return to normal.
Some sets do automatic retunes which can be a real nuisance in circumstances where signals are lost, you are best advised to find the setting in your TV's tuning sections and turn it off. You should only need to retune when you see an on-screen message to do so. These days that should be a very rare event.
If you manually retuned when you lost signal, try retuning again.
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Monday, 11 November 2024
Transmitter engineering
10:48 AM
10:48 AM
Faversham transmitter - Faversham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Shutdown [DUK]
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