Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
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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._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
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 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.
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?

BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.

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-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
VHF | C/D E | E | E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
C40 | _local | ||||||||
C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C51tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
C54tv_off | LBN | ||||||||
C56tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | SDN | ||||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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
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Wednesday, 21 February 2018
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Paul Sweetman4:10 PM
Brighton
My Freeview HD channels not synchronising picture and sound since Monday 19th Feb. Really irritating - makes them unwatchable as speech etc delayed by a second or so. Only affecting HD channels- others ok.
Please could you sort this asap?
This is Freeview via an rooftop aerial btw.
Location Brighton, BN2 9SR
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Friday, 2 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 today to 05:34 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 today to 05:34 today. [BBC]
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StevensOnln110:26 AM
T M Cooke: Given the engineering notice that has now appeared, it would appear that work was taking place in preparation for the frequency changes taking place at Whitehawk Hill on 14th March.
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Saturday, 3 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:29 AM
4:29 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 yesterday to 05:34 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 yesterday to 05:34 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sunday, 4 March 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 on 02 Mar to 05:34 on 02 Mar, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:36 on 02 Mar to 05:34 on 02 Mar. [BBC]
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Thursday, 8 March 2018
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Anna M9:30 AM
We are a housing scheme in Kemptown and residents in the south east of the building have lost all channels - we have a large reciever on the roof of a 7 storey building. We have had a company out 3 times to try to repair this and they have said they have done everything they can. This has been ongoing for the last two weeks or so with some intermittently getting channels. Can you please treat this as a priority as some of our residents are housebound and rely on their TV
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MikeP
12:07 PM
12:07 PM
AnnaM:
The owners/management of your complex are responsible for the maintenance of your aerial system. Contact them directly to have the problems attended to properly. There are no reported faults at your local transmitter at this time, though it was off-air durimhg the night of Sunday for engineering work related to changes of channels used. You may need to try a retune to recover the channels that may have been moved.
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