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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
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
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
Friday, 13 October 2023
Clare McNeil
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2:44 PM

Hi Chris.SE
Thank you so much for your help. I think the retune caused
loss of channels. Wished I left it alone but I didn't
know what could happen, live and learn I guess. I think we
will have to wait, hopefully not too long. The weather here
is bad so as you say it may be due to that. Once again many thanks
for your input and help.

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Chris.SE
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3:54 PM

Clare McNeil :

No problem, hope you get all your channels back soon.

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Clare McNeil
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4:04 PM

Hi Chris.SE
I have tried manually tuning in Freeview BBC 1, 2 and
BBC News 231 but they don't show these numbers don't show up.. Do you know
how the channels take to return. Sorry for sounding
a tad stupid at this I am not techno minded. Many thanks.

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Chris.SE
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4:35 PM

Clare McNeil :

:) Hi. Your post has appeared 4 times - that's because you thought it hadn't posted when this site can sometimes take over a minute or so before a post appears (I think it's the spam & swear filter working!!).

Not to worry.
First have a look in your TV Programme Channel numbers in the 800s, they may have appeared there.

Did you go into the TV Tuning section and find the Manual Tune option? It should give you a selection/list of UHF channel numbers.

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Clare McNeil
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5:12 PM

Hi Chris.SE
I wondered why it appeared 4 times. We went into
Manual Tune option and BBC channels are not
listed. The weather is supposed to improve tomorrow
hopefully we they will return then. Thanks for
getting back to me. I appreciate it.

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Chris.SE
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5:22 PM

Clare McNeil :

Hi there. That's very odd because the UHF channel numbers should always appear listed irrespective of what's been transmitted, or what the weather does etc. In theory you can tell it to tune to a uhf channel that isn't Whitehawk Hill !! Not that you'd necessarily get anything, but that's beside the point.

You did look for UHF channels 48 and 36? If the interference is still bad they just won't get a signal, but it should try to tune.

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Clare McNeil
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5:31 PM

Hi Chris.SE
The TV is quite old and we have been thinking
of getting a new one. I think this will push us to get
a new one, especially if BBC doesn't come back soon.

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Chris.SE
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6:05 PM

Clare McNeil :

Hi. As you've said you aren't "techno minded" I've tried to explain is as none a technical way as possible.
I don't mind trying to help further if you need it, but to be clear a new set wouldn't pick up or tune to signals that aren't there or have very bad interference.

What make and full model of set is it?
What uhf channel numbers are you seeing when in Manual tune?

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Clare McNeil
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6:27 PM

Hi Chris SE
Is it ok if I get back to you tomorrow, it's
my parents and they are very keen on getting a new one
This one is 15+ years old. I will pass on everything you have
said. The manual tuning is only showing channels 22-66.
Not showing channels 1,2 and 231 Freeview that is. Maybe
it's best to wait for the channels to come back. It's a Sony Bravia
have no idea what model it is, sorry.

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Clare McNeil
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6:46 PM

Sorry forgot to add neighbour have BBC.
This is very confusing . I fear we may not get
BBC back again or it could be a long wait.
Wished we never return now. Thanks for your help
Sorry I can't be of more help our end.

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