Freeview Light on the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 11,000 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 Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter._______
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 Newhaven (East Sussex, 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 Newhaven 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 | C23 (490.0MHz) | 131m | DTG- | 400W |
 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 | C26 (514.0MHz) | 131m | DTG- | 400W |
 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 | C30 (546.0MHz) | 131m | DTG- | 400W |
 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 Newhaven (East Sussex, 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 Newhaven transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 41km north-northeast (21°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 66km north-northeast (31°)
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 Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1970-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E K T | B E K T | B E K T | B E T | A K T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C8 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C30 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C40 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C41 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA |
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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 2kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 10 March 2016
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KMJ,Derby2:01 PM
Whittlesea: the Faversham relay is shown by BBC engineering as being off air between 11.08am and12.30pm today 10th March 2016.
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Thursday, 14 July 2016
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Kathy Scott10:08 AM
Lewes
I live in Lewes, East Sussex (postcode BN7 2RZ). My Freeview box is able to receive signals from both the Lewes and Newhaven relay transmitters. However the reception from the Lewes transmitter is poor. My box automatically tuned to Lewes but the picture kept breaking up and the Signal Status menu showed signal strength to be low. I used manual retuning to tune to the Newhaven transmitter instead. The picture quality and signal strength are better.
Now I have a different problem. One multiplex, the one containing all the HD channels and Film4+1, does not seem to be transmitting the EPG and the Now/Next information that allows Accurate Recording to work. When my Freeview box is tuned to any of the channels in the HD multiplex, I do not get any updates to the EPG. If I leave it tuned to such a channel for a few days, all but the next couple of days of the EPG end up being empty. If I change channel to another multiplex, then the EPG gets repopulated gradually. If I try to record a program on a channel in the HD multiplex, using Accurate Recording, the program is not recorded at all, unless I am simultaneously watching a program on one of the other multiplexes (my box has two tuners). In order to record a program on the HD multiplex, I have to set the box to record at the scheduled time instead of using Accurate Recording. This means if the program overruns I lose the end. It appears as if the box is receiving the EPG and Now/Next information on two of the three multiplexes, but not on the one containing the HD channels.
Is it possible that the Newhaven transmitter is not sending the EPG and Now/Next information on the one multiplex? I received the EPG and Now/Next information on all multiplexes when the box was tuned to the Lewes transmitter.
Also, the channels in the HD multiplex have numbers starting at 800 instead of their normal channel numbers. This does not happen for the other multiplexes. It did not happen for any channels when I tuned to the Lewes transmitter. I thought this might be caused because I was receiving signals from two transmitters, but using manual tuning to tune in only the Newhaven transmitter made no difference. It appears to be caused by the EPG information not being available on the HD multiplex.
I have read that problems with the EPG can be caused by the box receiving signals from more than one transmitter. This was the case for me, but I have done everything I can think of to make sure it is only tuned to the Newhaven transmitter. Nothing helped. Here is what I have done. Is there anything else I can do?
1) Unplugged the Freeview box from the mains.
2) Unplugged the aerial from the Freeview box by disconnecting the cable from the RF in socket.
3) Waited 30 seconds.
4) Plugged the Freeview box back into the mains.
5) Turned on the Freeview box and did a Factory Reset, which resets all settings to factory defaults and removes all channels it was tuned to. At the end of the Factory Reset, it prompted to scan for channels, and I allowed it to do this without the aerial plugged in. This resulted in an empty channel list.
6) Reinserted the aerial cable to the RF in socket.
7) Did a manual retune, searching only the frequencies for the Newhaven transmitter. It found channels in 3 multiplexes, but the HD channels still had numbers starting at 800.
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Richard Cooper11:35 AM
Norwich
Kathy Scott: Hi, Karen. I would suggest two more retunes. The first retune should be done with the aerial lead removed from your Freeview box. This is so the box will 'forget' all previous data, including any data that had become corrupted in its memory. Then re-connect the aerial lead and re-tune again. Before doing the second re-tune, make sure your aerial is actually pointing to the Newhaven transmitter because you want to get your signals from there and no longer from Lewes. Your aerial needs to point almost due South, but with a tiny bit of East as well. Make sure it is not pointing to your West, which is where the Lewes transmitter is relative to you! Be extremely careful and cautious when you climb up on to your roof to turn the aerial around to point South with a little bit of East. One more thing: the multiplex that is playing up for you is the one on UHF tuning channel 40 (frequency 626.0 MHz) and so you might prefer to do a manual tune just on that channel after doing everything else. The main thing is to get rid of Lewes from your Freeview box and from your aerial, which ishy I've said to do two retunes AND turning your aerial around. Let us know how you get on, Richard, Norwich.
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Friday, 29 July 2016
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Kathy Scott10:03 AM
Richard, thankyou for your suggestion. I tried retuning twice again but unfortunately it did not make any difference. I do not have any control over where the aerial points as I live in a block of flats with a communal aerial. It did look at it and it seems to be pointing towards Newhaven. That doesn't stop me also getting a weaker signal from the Lewes transmitter.
I would really like to know whether my problem with not getting the EPG on the HD multiplex, and getting 800 numbers for those channels is due to receiving transmissions from more than one transmitter, or is it something wrong with the Newhaven transmitter. Is there anyone out there who receives transmissions from Newhaven, and not from any other transmitter? Do you get the same problem or not?
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Tuesday, 9 August 2016
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Richard Cooper4:06 PM
Kathy Scott: Hi, again Kathy. There are no reported problems currently on the Newhaven transmitter. Richard, Norwich.
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Sunday, 18 September 2016
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Ian Farrow2:27 PM
Since Friday 16 September 2016 we have lost ALL DAB radio stations on the D1 National Newhaven 11D band. Does anybody know of any reason why, because I can't find any mention of a problem on the Newhaven Transmitter website. We are more than one DAB radio in the house, and the stations have disappeared from all of them. I have done a autotune on my own Pure DAB radio (just now - Sunday 18 Sep at 14.1 hrs) and the only stations it finds and lists are those on the Sussex and BBC bands. We have an outdoor roof aerial pointing to the Newhaven transmitter.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
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Barry Martin9:53 PM
Why is it not possible to recieve the ITV 3. Yesterday & Drama channels?
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StevensOnln110:52 PM
Barry Martin: The channels you mention are not broadcast from the Newhaven transmitter.
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Monday, 19 December 2016
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Conan9:29 PM
I am having problems on where to get reception in peacehaven postcode BN107BT
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016
MikeP
4:19 PM
4:19 PM
Conan:
Have a look at https://ukfree.tv/transmi…ill. That shows that most of Peacehaven is covered by the Whitehawk Hill transmitter.
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