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Freeview Light on the Brighton (Central) (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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The symbol shows the location of the Brighton (Central) (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 9,900 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 Brighton (Central) (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Brighton (Central) 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	H max	C41 (634.0MHz)	82m	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	H max	C47 (682.0MHz)	82m	DTG-	20W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast 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),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C44 (658.0MHz)	82m	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 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Brighton (Central) (Brighton and Hove, 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, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, 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 Brighton (Central) transmitter?

BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 44km northeast (38°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 78km 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 Brighton (Central) (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	31 Dec 2018-
	B E K T	B E K T	B E K T	B E K T	B E K T
C39	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C41	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C44				BBCB	BBCB
C45	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C47	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4	D3+4

_{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	48W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-3.8dB) 20W

Local transmitter maps

Brighton (Central) Freeview Whitehawk Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (South Coast micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Brighton (Central) 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Sunday, 29 September 2019

Transmitter engineering

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5:08 AM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:02 on 27 Sep to 05:43 on 27 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:02 on 27 Sep to 05:43 on 27 Sep. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Transmitter engineering

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5:01 AM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Off the air due to essential from 15 Jan 00:00 until 15 Jan 00:54. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Transmitter engineering

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4:28 PM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Off the air due to a fault from 10 Mar 09:58 until 10 Mar 10:32. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 19 March 2020

Transmitter engineering

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4:29 PM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Off the air due to essential from 19 Mar 11:37 until 19 Mar 11:38. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Transmitter engineering

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1:28 PM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Off the air due to essential from 14 Jul 10:05. . [BBC]

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4:14 PM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Off the air due to a fault from 14 Jul 16:05 until 14 Jul 16:43. Off the air due to essential from 14 Jul 10:05 until 14 Jul 16:05. . [BBC]

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Friday, 2 October 2020

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1:28 PM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Off the air due to essential from 1 Oct 10:00 until 1 Oct 12:25. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Transmitter engineering

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4:20 PM

BRIGHTON (CENTRAL) - : Poor due to a fault from 5 Jul 13:13 until 5 Jul 13:50. . [BBC]

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