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
Newhaven Freeview Newhaven DAB Heathfield TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 6 July 2017
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David Hitchin2:55 PM
Since 18:30 on 6th July BBC1 local news from Freeview at Newhaven channel 50 has been from London rather than Southeast. (The correct program is going out on Sky).
In spite of this being an area-wide problem in BN25 the BBC advisers only respond by telling people to do a manual retune to channel 50 - pointless if you are already on it - and of course it doesn't solve the problem.
It seems that the news feeds are being incorrectly routed, and that is not the sort of error that automatic checks on the transmitter can identify.
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StevensOnln17:18 PM
David Hitchin: It looks like the BBC are aware of the problem, according to the transmitter engineering post which has appeared below yours. If you are definitely tuned to the correct transmitter then there must have been some sort of failure with the feed for BBC 1 South East, resulting in the transmitter taking the London feed as a backup (some transmitter have a backup satellite feed in case the main underground fibre feed fails, which may not have all regions available).
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Friday, 7 July 2017
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David Hitchin10:56 AM
I have spoken to a very helpful BBC manager. The main problem yesterday seemed to be that all advisory staff worked from scripts which all assumed that the fault was in the viewer's equipment, with no way of concluding and reporting that the transmitter might have been at fault. Their automatic checks only show that the transmitter is broadcasting but not that it is broadcasting the correct stream.
There were major faults on cables in the area, so perhaps the transmitter was not receiving the proper feed and had reverted to retransmitting the satellite signal for another region.
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Thursday, 3 August 2017
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David Hitchin3:21 AM
Reported to have failed at 8.54 pm last night. Actually failed about 8.15
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David Hitchin7:03 AM
The Newhaven transmitter came back at 5:33 this morning. My report that it failed at 8:15 was inaccurate; as I immediately switched to Sky I didn't make a note at the time. The BBC report that it failed at 8:54, but a check on my recorder shows that it really failed at 8:46. An AUTOMATIC retune on Freeview found the Whitehawk transmitter producing a decent signal on channel 60. The standard BBC advice about doing a MANUAL retune would have only taken me back to the broken channel 50.
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Monday, 18 September 2017
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Mrs L Lott9:35 PM
Is there a reason why freeview does not transmit ITV3 in the Newhaven area?
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StevensOnln111:09 PM
Mrs L Lott: Because Newhaven is a lite transmitter which only carries PSB channels and some of their offshoots. ITV3 is broadcast on a commercial multiplex (COM4) which is not broadcast from lite transmitters such as Newhaven.
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Friday, 16 March 2018
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maureen over10:11 AM
Peacehaven
I am at bn10 7sy and we have no reception, it just says there is no signal. It went off just after 9am.
Can you tell me how long this will last please
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MikeP
1:04 PM
1:04 PM
Maureen Over:
There is transmitter engineering work being done currently on your transmitter and they do not say when it will be finished, though it is usually just a few hours. DO NOT RETUNE until AFTER the work has been completed. Your TV should tell you when to do that.
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Tuesday, 3 April 2018
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Mr Tom Law11:11 AM
unable to receive ITV3. when will service be restored? What do I have to do to get a signal?
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