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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Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Hi there,
Are there any changes expected for the Whitehawk transmitter this year (2020) ?
The list seems to have stopped at October 2019.
Rgds,
Mike
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Chris.SE2:49 PM
Mike:
There doesn't appear to be any further planned changes in the Meridian region (at this time!!). Whether any "tweaking" will be needed anywhere in the country once the other clearance events have completed on the 29th April remains to be seen :o
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Tuesday, 3 March 2020
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Bob Higham7:59 PM
Mike:
I've been struggling to tell the owners of this site that their information is incorrect.
For your information, Whitehawk Hill, Brighton is currently (March 2020) using the following UHF channels
PSB1 UHF 48
PSB2 UHF 35
PSB3 UHF 36
COM4 UHF 32
COM5 UHF 34
COM6 UHF 33
Local BTN UHF 40
Hope this helps
Bob
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Chris.SE9:44 PM
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Bob Higham:
Mike knows. If you read the recent posts here you'll see that, and as mentioned in my reply to you else where, the updates are mentioned on p89, my post on the 17th Feb. at 10:58pm.
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Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Hi I wonder if you can help me, today 14/7/2020 we have lost all TV signal. I have done a Freeeview reset but no joy. I am not techno minded at all, so sorry if I don't understand the tech info. Is there problem with the transmitter? Any help would be very much appreciated as we are shielding and our main connection with the News in the outside World is via our TV. Many thanks.
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Kevin Hall12:03 PM
As with Claire, we lost all freeview channels overnight. No notice of any maintenance or upcoming retuning. Some are restored now but at much reduced output so reception upstairs (which needed a booster previously) is now impossible.
Please provide an update of the reason why and when full service will be resumed.
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Clive Howell12:06 PM
Is there a transmitter problem? We can only get bbc channels, not hd, in lancing
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Mary12:57 PM
Hi
Does anyone know when the Whitehawk Hill transmitter will be working properly as not many TV channels are working in the Fiveways area of Brighton? The TV just shows "no signal".
Thank you.
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StevensOnln11:42 PM
Whitehawk Hill is currently listed for engineering work with possible service interruptions, according to Freeview's website. There is no indication of how long it will list, but often it is only for a few hours at a time, with work usually being completed by the evening.
Do not attempt to retune whilst the work is taking place. If you have retuned already you may need to retune again once the work is completed to restore missing channels.
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Hi Steven, thank you for your reply, lets hope its up and running by this evening. We are experiencing transmitting problems in Hove. We too are not receiving any signal and when it does appear it soon disappears. Thanks for the update.
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