Full Freeview on the Dover (Kent, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Dover (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 190,000 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 Dover (Kent, England) mast?
Dover transmitter - Dover transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/07/2025 Pixelation or flickering 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Dover (Kent, 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 Dover 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Dover (Kent, 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 Dover transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 69km west (270°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 52km west-northwest (289°)
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 Dover (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1960-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | SDN | ||||||||
| C42 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
| C51tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C55tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C57tv_off | _local | _local | |||||||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C66 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves |
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?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1dB) 80kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-4dB) 40kW | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux C* | (-20dB) 1000W | |
| Mux D* | (-23dB) 500W |
Local transmitter maps
Dover Freeview Dover DAB 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, 20 December 2023
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Mrs s smith1:37 PM
Live in Canterbury have had some tv but most of the time picture has broken up and we have no sound are there any problems
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Chris.SE4:12 PM
Mrs s smith:
It could have been the recent weather , there's been a very brief period of "Tropospheric Ducting" causing interference affecting some in the south of the country.
If you had been correctly tuned, I hope you haven't been retuning, You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded, the usual effect is to clear the correct tuning or maybe get incorrectly tuned to weak signals from another transmitter. You then might have to try retuning several times to get your signals back to normal!
We can't check your predicted reception without a full postcode, if you continue to have problems, post back with a full postcode and some information about your aerial installation and which way it points (rough compass bearing) etc.
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Wednesday, 27 December 2023
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Mrs s smith3:50 PM
Have had no tv for 2 weeks what is gong on
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Chris.SE8:35 PM
Mrs s smith:
Did you bother to read the previous reply?
You haven't told us whether you tried to retune at the time!
In fact you've given us no additional information at all!
Have you even looked at your aerial to make sure it's still on the roof and pointing the same way as your neighbours?
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Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Good afternoon, my mother in law runs 2 digital TV's (both Samsung). Yesterday the 20th May 2025 she has lost channels 21, 82, 17, 50, 32,33,64,61 etc. mostly her favourite channels. Oddly they have only been lost on 1 or the two TV's. They run on the same antenna via a splitter.
I have tried re-tuning both sets, powered both off for 10 minutes, powered off the splitter and changed the antenna plugs over. All to no avail.
Has the signal strength been lowered or has the mother in law worn them out?
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Chris.SE11:37 PM
Jon Miell:
I don't think there's any question of them being worn out!
But have you checked that the aerial looks intact and appears to be still pointing correctly and that the downlead isn't flapping around in the wind?
The assumption is that your mother-in-law does get her signals from Dover as you've posted on the Dover transmitter page, however as you haven't provided her full postcode, we can't confirm if that's the best transmitter for her postcode or indeed what the predicted reception is like.
I can't find any faults listed for Dover and it's not listed for Planned Engineering but finding reported faults for the commercial multiplexes is often like getting blood from a stone as most of the channels you've listed are carried on the SDN multiplex, a couple on ArqA orArqB, all commercial multiplexes!
There has been some periodic variable weather related disruption to reception across different parts of the country at different times which might have been the cause of the loss, but I'm afraid Retuning is not something you should do when you have No signal. You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded and the usual result is to clear the correct tuning. The BBC initially issued a warning about this possible disruption a week ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work-warning/weather-warning/waw-high-pressure-19-may-2025
If you provide a full postcode we can also check for the possibility of a new source of interference from a new/upgraded phone mast now using the 700MHz band. Has she received a postcard from Restore TV?
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