Freeview Light on the Patcham (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Patcham (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 4,300 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 Patcham (Brighton and Hove, 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 Patcham (Brighton and Hove, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, Great! Movies Action, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, HorrorXtra, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 70s, That's TV , Together TV, W, Yesterday +1.
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 Patcham 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 | C29 (538.0MHz) | 141m | DTG- | 14W |
 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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 15 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | H max | C31 (554.0MHz) | 141m | DTG- | 14W |
 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 | C37 (602.0MHz) | 141m | DTG- | 14W |
 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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 45 Freeview channels?
The Patcham (Brighton and Hove, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, Great! Movies Action, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, HorrorXtra, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 70s, That's TV , Together TV, W, Yesterday +1.
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 Patcham transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 40km northeast (41°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 79km west (270°)
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 Patcham (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | A K T | |||||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | 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 | 69W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-6.9dB) 14W |
Local transmitter maps
Patcham 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
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Very interesting Patcham went a few secs before Rowridge !
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
0.07:55 for Patcham and 0.08:07 for Rowridge
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Well my little 3.5 inch freeview tv is useless for portable reception unlike my analogue equivelent, oh well !
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
NO FREEVIEW TONIGHT FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 9am - then RETUNE - see Switchover "completes" for Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice :':@
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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Walter7:02 AM
Brighton
This might be a stupid question,but why do we only receive half of the channels supplied by Freeview from the Patcham Transmitter.
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Walter's: mapW's Freeview map terrainW's terrain plot wavesW's frequency data W's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby10:10 AM
Walter: It all comes down to money. The owners of the COM muxes were invited to increase the number of sites at which their services were transmitted, but declined on the grounds that the cost of transmission would double, but only a small percentage of extra viewers would be added.The Digital UK postcode checker predicts that you are able to receive all services with good reception from the Whitehawk Hill transmitter, subject to using a suitable aerial and not having any local obstructions (trees or tall buildings) blocking the signal path.
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can you please explain (in words I can understand)why patcham doesnt have half the channels we should have?
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jb388:55 PM
Lucy: Simply because of it being a PSB only Freeview transmitter, as any additional channels provided would be purely for commercial reasons and not public service broadcasting obligations connected to the licence fee, but the commercial interests that would have been involved having considered that the coverage area was not large enough to provide adequate financial returns to justify the high costs involved with providing any additional services.
In other words just like most private enterprises, if its not going to pay then its not done.
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Lucy: TV in the UK is broadcast from powerful main transmitters which spread their signals over large areas. Despite this, there are pockets where these signals cannot be received sufficiently from these main stations, usually caused by the terrain.
In these places small low power "filler in" transmitters are installed, such as that at Patcham so as to provide a service.
The channels that don't broadcast from Patcham are run by the Commercial operators. They operate solely to generate profit by selling advertising to advertisers. Their objective is therefore to gather as many viewers as possible (to watch the adverts) at lowest possible cost to them.
They have opted to transmit from 80 of the largest transmission sites (by viewer population) and achieve 90% coverage of the population.
There are around 1000 small transmitters like Patcham and for them to transmit from them would roughly double the amount of money they spend on transmitters. They were invited to transmit from more sites, but they declined.
The services that are broadcast from Patcham are the "Public Service" ones.
In some cases it is possible to have a new aerial fitted to pick up the full Freeview service from another transmitter.
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Hmm could this ever change in time though. What about the new mux's in the future also, there is talk about capacity for any extra 35 HD channels even in the years to come
I wonder if other countries have the same type of freeview light service from relays...
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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