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The symbol shows the location of the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 96,000 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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Whitehawk Hill transmitter broadcast?

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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
C48- (689.8MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
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
C35 (586.0MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
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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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C36 (594.0MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 V max
C33 (570.0MHz)164mDTG-84,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C57 (762.0MHz)171mDTG-84,000W
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11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C32 (562.0MHz)171mDTG-84,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LBN
 V -10dB
C40 (626.0MHz)171mDTG-12400W
Channel icons
from 8th July 2014: 7 Latest TV,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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 Whitehawk Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 80km 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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1316 Oct 2019
VHFC/D EEEC/D E TW T
C2BBCtvwaves
C34ArqA
C35C5wavesC5wavesD3+4
C36BBCB
C40_local
C48ArqBArqB
C51tv_offBBCB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C54tv_offLBN
C56tv_offArqA
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesSDNSDN
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-BBCABBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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 10kW
Analogue 5(-3dB) 5kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4dB) 4kW
Mux B*(-10dB) 1000W
Mux 2*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBN(-14dB) 400W
Mux 1*, Mux A*(-17dB) 200W

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern 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. Whitehawk Hill 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
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
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Jim
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

2:20 PM

Clare: Whitehawk Mux2 (ITV1, C4 etc.) has been occasionally dodgy here (BN1 5) for many moons, although not too bad in the last few months. We're holding our breaths that the switchover next month will greatly increase the signal!

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Jim's 41 posts GB flag
Thursday, 9 February 2012
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jay
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

4:10 AM
Brighton

so as i understand it there will be no bbc2 on whitehawk hill from 7th march.



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jay
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

4:28 AM
Brighton

I meant analogue bbc2.

So we currently have 6 muxes, after DSO we will have 5 + 1hd one.. can you explain how they will get all these channels from 6 muxes to 5 muxes..

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:20 AM

jay: Yes, it says at the top of the page

"Wednesday 7th March 2012
ITV-1 analogue swaps to C63. BBC TWO analogue C60 closes. Multiplex BBCA starts on C60. Multiplex 1 C66 closes. "

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Clare McNeil
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

1:34 PM

Thanks Brian and Jay for your replies, most appreciated.

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Clare McNeil
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

1:39 PM

Sorry meant to say thanks to Brian, Jay & Jim for your replies. Typing too fast for my own good there. As I say they are appreciated as I'm not expert on these things.

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Mike Dimmick
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

6:06 PM

jay: Briantist's links are a bit out-of-date.

Basically, three of the four multiplexes that were changed to a more robust, but lower-capacity, mode in 2002, will return to a higher-capacity mode. Indeed two of them, along with one that didn't change in 2002, will now go to an even higher-capacity mode.

The pattern currently is:

Mux 1, B, C and D: 18 Mbit/s
Mux 2 and A: 24 Mbit/s
Total: 120 Mbit/s

After switchover:

BBC A (Mux 1) and D3&4 (Mux 2): 24 Mbit/s
BBC B (Mux B): DVB-T2, HD, 40 Mbit/s
SDN, ArqA and ArqB (A, C and D): DVB-T 27 Mbit/s
Total (SD): 129 Mbit/s
Total: 169 Mbit/s

The BBC have already cleared nearly everything off Mux B, by closing some services, compressing what was previously on Mux 1 slightly more heavily (though not as much as the other multiplexes), and moving some streams across. What now remains, of the BBC channels, will easily fit in the additional 6 Mbps of space on BBC A after the mode change. BBC Four and CBeebies time-share a slot, BBC Parliament uses a smaller slot (it runs at a lower resolution, if I recall), and each radio station uses about 256 kbps.

Clearing that space gave the BBC the opportunity to sublet some capacity, to allow services that would use the extra space on ArqA or ArqB after switchover to launch early. BT have leased some of the space to carry Sky Sports 1 and 2. These will move to ArqB at switchover.

Channel 5 and S4C have already made their moves from Mux A to Mux 2, that happened in September 2009. No BBC services will now be going to Mux 2.

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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Chris Panayi
11:59 AM
Brighton

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has the date Whitehawk Hill starts transmitting H.D. content.
Thanks. Chris.

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:07 PM

Chris Panayi: HD services will start at the second stage of switchover on 21st March.

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