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The symbol shows the location of the Chatham Town (Medway, England) transmitter which serves 9,000 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 Chatham Town (Medway, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Chatham Town 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
C35 (586.0MHz)88mDTG-5W
Channel icons
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
C39 (618.0MHz)88mDTG-5W
Channel icons
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
C42 (642.0MHz)88mDTG-5W
Channel icons
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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The Chatham Town (Medway, 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 Chatham Town transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 34km south-southwest (213°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 11km south (173°)
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 Chatham Town (Medway, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1319 Jul 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C35BBCA
C39D3+4
C42BBCB
C52tv_offBBCB
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C57tv_offBBCA
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C68BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 11W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-3.4dB) 5W

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

Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated-Rediffusion†
Sep 1955-Jul 1968Associated TeleVision◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981Thames†
Jul 1968-Dec 1981London Weekend Television♦
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
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. Chatham Town 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
Monday, 11 December 2017
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Margaret smith
3:07 PM

Who owns the blue bell hill transmitter?

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StevensOnln1
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3:57 PM

Margaret smith: Most UK television and radio transmitters are owned and operated by Arqiva - Arqiva - Infrastructure and Media Services for TV, Radio, Mobile, Smart & IoT

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Tuesday, 26 December 2017
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George Kingsnorth
7:58 PM

My aerial is tuned to London Crystal Palace but I would like to receive BBC South East news occasionally.Can you tell me if this is possible in my area please? Also, if it is feasible, what sort of additional aerial would be required. - thank you

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MikeP
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8:31 PM

George Kingsnorth:

It all depends on exactly where you are so please provide a full post code so that we can check reception conditions for you.



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Friday, 2 September 2022
Saturday, 3 September 2022
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Chris.SE
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5:21 AM

Mr dixon :

I can't find any faults listed for any of the transmitters you may receive, I expect your signals have returned now, it could have been current weather conditions causing temporary interference.
If you still have no signal we are going to need a bit more information.

I hope you didn't try retuning when you had no signal. That's NEVER advised as if often just clears the correct tuning you had and you end up having to retune again when signals are back to normal (which you may have to try several times as you don't know when that would be!).

If you still have no signal, do your neighbours have no signal as well?
Check all your coax plugs and connections behind your TV etc.
Which regional programmes do you normally get, Meridian or London?
Is your aerial still pointing in the correct direction - if you normally get Meridian it should be point about 14 degrees E of sue S (that's between SSE and due S) and it's rods (or squashed Xs) should be horizontal. Is the coax downlead secure and not flapping in the wind?

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