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The symbol shows the location of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 9,500 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 Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Aldeburgh 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C28 (530.0MHz)87mDTG-10,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) 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
C23 (490.0MHz)87mDTG-10,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (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 (Anglia east), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)87mDTG-10,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Aldeburgh (Suffolk, 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 Aldeburgh transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 53km north-northwest (337°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
regional news image
ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 53km north-northwest (337°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)

How will the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-1331 Mar 2018-
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C5BBCtvwaves
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C25BBCBBBCB
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C28BBCABBCA
C30C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Aldeburgh was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Thursday, 14 February 2019
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John Curtin
8:03 AM

I cannot get a signal on either of my Televisions. The signal "went" at 2215hours yesterday and is still off. I live in Orford

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StevensOnln1
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

10:16 AM

John Curtin: Are both TVs fed from the same aerial? Do you have an amplifier? Have you checked whether any neighbours are also having a problem with Freeview? Do not attempt to retune.

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Friday, 28 June 2019
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Trevor sheppard
7:22 PM

Hi, have a customer in Bawdsey who reports a 'no signal' condition, he has checked with a neighbour who is suffering the same problem. However there are no reported problems for any of the local transmitters. Has there been a recent failure that hasn't been updated on this site yet?. No reported problems on the bbc site either.
Regards, Trevor

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Saturday, 29 June 2019
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P Wynn
8:10 AM

We have no TV signal at High Street Aldeburgh at all we are in our late 70s and eighties and do not know what to do

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TA Edison
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8:37 AM

P Wynn: This will be due to current high pressure weather, which is causing 'fading', in the old days you would have been seeing ghosting and/or co-channel interference (picture on picture etc), but unfortunately modern TVs dont do this and just show nothing under these conditions.

Whatever you do, dont be tempted to retune/rescan your TV! This would just lose the stored channels and you will then not see when they restore,

Unfortunately, all that can be done is to wait for the weather conditions to change. When they do, your reception will recover by itself.

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TA Edison's 25 posts GB flag
Monday, 5 July 2021
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D Marshall
8:55 AM

Poor reception Aldringham today.
BBC Radio 4 is replaced by Channel 4 after a few minutes on freeview.
BBC Radio 3 is also being replaced by something else.

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Chris.SE
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11:53 AM

D Marshall:

You may have noticed the post before yours where there is Planned Engineering, the BBC had also reported a fault on the 3rd July. Do not retune whilst such work is taking place as it may just delete your correct tuning.

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Monday, 9 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
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10:46 AM

Aldeburgh transmitter - Aldeburgh transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/12/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 16 December 2024
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM

Aldeburgh transmitter - Aldeburgh transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 16/12/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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