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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?

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
C48- (689.8MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
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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
Channel icons
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
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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
Channel icons
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

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 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
Saturday, 1 July 2023
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Dave
4:45 PM

I have lost all HD channels on CH36. I live in Worthing

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Chris.SE
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6:06 PM

Dave:

You don't say when you lost the HD channels.
I can't find any listing of current or recent faults.
As you can see from the post before yours, the transmitter was listed for Planned Engineering, although it is no longer, work may not have been completed and there may have been service interruptions.

There's also been some residual weather related Tropospheric Ducting in recent days which can affect reception because of interference being received from more distant transmitters in Europe or the UK - not all multiplexes are necessarily affected, but this isn't normally sustained for any lengthy periods,

If you retuned at all when you had no signal or badly pixellated pictures - this is never advised if you were correctly tuned initially, as it usually just clears the correct tuning, then you'd need to retune again when signals are normal. You may have to try several times as you won't known when that may be. I suggest you try a manual retune on UHF C36.

If you are still having problems, check with a near neighbour if they have the same issue. Check your aerial looks intact and your downlead isn't flapping in the wind, and all you coax plugs are inserted correctly. if the problem continues, post back with more detail about your aerial installation, amps/splitters etc and a full postcode so we can check predicted reception.

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Wednesday, 5 July 2023
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Emma Atkinson
11:01 AM

Whitehawk Hill BBC B HD multiplex (UHF Ch 36) sound delayed 0.5 second wrt vision. Fault started yesterday lunchtime ish. Fault manifested on a Sony and a Samsung TV. Problem affects all HD and SD channels on that multiplex. Other multiplexes from same Transmitter location are not similarly affected.

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Emma Atkinson
12:53 PM

Emma Atkinson : Whitehawk Hill BBC B HD multiplex was fixed at 13:51. Thank you engineers.
Sound and vision are now in synchronisation on all channels using this multiplex (SD & HD)

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Chris.SE
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1:03 PM

Emma Atkinson :

Hi Emma. The BBC are reporting a fault -
From 1:13pm on 5th Jul 2023 BBC B HD Poor quality due to a fault
It looks as though they've only more recently listed this, but as it is known it'll no doubt get fixed asap.
Do NOT retune.

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Wednesday, 11 October 2023
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Margaret Bacon
11:14 AM

Missing out on ITV channels channel 4 and 5 etc can get bbc channels and latest tv continual problem on freeview have rescanned tv whcih now jumps from BBC 2 to channel 7 latest

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Steve Donaldson
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12:06 PM

Margaret Bacon: Since about Saturday there has been high pressure causing reception issues across much of the country. The effect is to cause signals from distant transmitters to travel much further. These can be from elsewhere in the UK or abroad, and when the signal is on the same frequency as the transmitter one is tuned to then this can result in picture break-up or no reception at all, depending on how strong the interfering signal is.

If you are using the Whitehawk Hill transmitter then in order to restore ITV, C4, C5 etc. then you should carry out a manual scan of UHF channel 35. If the interference is still there then you may find you can't tune it in, in which case you will have to try again at some later time.

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Chris.SE
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12:44 PM

Margaret Bacon:

The important point to note about any disruption to your signals whether it be caused by Engineering, Faults, or Weather conditions, is that if you know you were correctly tuned to start with, then Do NOT Retune. (You can't tune to signals that aren't there or have severe interference.). Often under those conditions it'll clear your correct tuning so you have to repeat try until you get them back, which in a worst case could be some time!!

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Friday, 13 October 2023
Clare McNeil
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11:18 AM

Hi wonder if you can help we have lost all BBC channels
Tried digital auto tuning but still no BBC channels. Is this due to the weather?

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Chris.SE
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2:29 PM

Clare McNeil :

Hi Clare. I can't find any faults listed and it's not been listed for Planned Engineering either, so it is most likely due to the recent severe Tropospheric Ducting that occurred with the recent high pressure.
It was unusually intense on this occasion. As you probably know it can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It doesn't necessarily affect all multiplexes at the same time or at all and not everyone will be affected, it will depend on location. At times it can wipe out your reception.
People in different parts of the UK and Europe have been experiencing problems.

Auto-retuning is probably not the best idea when you've lost signal or it's badly pixellated be it due to weather, engineering or faults etc. as it can often clear your correct tuning. You just have to be patient and wait for conditions to change, you can't tune to signals that aren't there or have bad interference.

There is still some of this "tropo" around, so if channels are missing from your EPG, then the best option is to try a manual retune for the multiplex UHF channels that you are missing.

See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for a full list of which TV channel is on which multiplex.

Whitehawk Hill's channels are (in multiplex order) PSB1/BBCA on C48, PSB2/D3&4 on C35, PSB3/BBCB HD on C36, COM4/SDN on C32, COM5/ARQA on C34, COM6/ARQB on C33.
The LOCAL MUX/L-BTN is on C40.
If you hover on each of the aforementioned channel numbers, it'll give you the frequency if you need to know those.

If it's just the BBC SD channels you are missing, try a manual retune on UHF C48. If it's the HD ones, try UHF C36.
If conditions in your locale are still bad, you may not be successful on any try, you just have to try again.



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