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 not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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, 15 January 2014
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 04:00 on 12 Jan to 04:05 on 12 Jan. [BBC]
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Thursday, 16 January 2014
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 04:00 on 12 Jan to 04:05 on 12 Jan. FM: Radio 3 FM Off Air from 13:05 today to 13:11 today. [BBC]
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Mils Cook7:02 PM
Crowborough
A very sincere "thank you" to Dave Lindsay for your assistance. I am using the Heathfield transmitter and I suspect that the combination of the indoor ariel and in-line trees is the major problem. I will experiment with your suggestions so thanks again.
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Thursday, 30 January 2014
Is the new Brighton local tv channel going to be relayed on all Brighton relays or just from Whitehawk Hill ? Anyone know when it launches btw ? Are they testing yet ?
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Friday, 31 January 2014
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Ginger4:31 PM
Brighton
Hello Dave. According to this site, the frequency was due to go live yesterday, but as yet I am not receiving anything... However, Latest TV is not due to start it's programming until sometime in April. Unfortunately I believe it is only going to be on Whitehawk Hill.
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Thursday, 27 February 2014
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Peter Challis7:47 PM
Brighton
Just did a channel scan and I am getting a test card with 'Comux-local TV test' at 738 MHz with 100% quality.
No't bad for my new horizontally polarised aerial pointed at Rowridge which I'm hoping to get BBC4 HD from next week.
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Friday, 28 February 2014
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Peter Challis8:59 AM
Brighton
The 'Comux-local TV test' is currently on channel 791 showing with a name of 'Local TV Test1'.
BonanzaBonanza is now transmitting adverts on channel 64, with the Loan Ranger, Dragnet, The Beverley Hillbillies, Bonanza, Flash Gordon, Sherlock Holmes, and the Lucy Show to follow according to the EPG.
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014
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RJ10:19 AM
Brighton
If your pointing at rowridge you wont get Brighton's Local tv/ Lastest TV reports to be broadcasting their test signal from 10th March and is only available from Brighton Whitehawk, which mean their reach isn't as big as you'd expect, as many would have been pointing to IOW if only to get the old analogue 5.
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RJ: If the service is meant to be for all of Brighton then it needs to be from all relays from launch to be taken remotely seriously which would take some time anyway...
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RJ10:43 AM
Brighton
Dave: Never gonna happen, relays are not Commerical transmitters.. They only have 3 muxes at most.
Where does it say "ALL OF BRIGHTON" anywhere, says "brighton & hove local channel", thus why they can't use Rowridge :)
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