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The symbol shows the location of the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 9,500 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 Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Aldeburgh 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
C28 (530.0MHz)87mDTG-10,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) 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
C23 (490.0MHz)87mDTG-10,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Anglia (East 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 (Anglia east),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)87mDTG-10,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
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the effected channels

The Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Aldeburgh transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 53km north-northwest (337°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
regional news image
ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 53km north-northwest (337°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)

How will the Aldeburgh (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-1331 Mar 2018-
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C5BBCtvwaves
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C25BBCBBBCB
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C28BBCABBCA
C30C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 9 Nov 11 and 23 Nov 11.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tacolneston transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
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. Aldeburgh 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, 4 January 2014
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Joe Staines
8:28 PM

Any news on when Suffolk coastal towns/villages can expect transmitter problems to be sorted?

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Janet Harvey
9:44 PM
Woodbridge

We have had no signal since early this morning here in Butley, but website shows no problems with Aldeburgh Transmitter. does anybody know how long it's likely to be off ???

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

10:03 PM

Two hours ago (see my posting above) UK Power Networks' map showed no power outages in and around Aldeburgh. Now it shows one which could affect the transmitting station:

UK Power Networks - Current Network Incidents

INCIDENT REF: INCD-758426-H
INCIDENT RAISED: 04-JAN-2014 18:00:51
ESTIMATED RESTORATION TIME: 05-JAN-2014 00:00
POTENTIALLY AFFECTED POSTCODE SECTORS: IP15 5,IP16 4


Janet Harvey: I don't know about you not having a TV signal since this morning as the power outage occurred at 18:00, which was shortly before a flood of messages to this website.

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Mike B
10:12 PM

I'm surprised the transmitting stations don't have backup generators. And even more surprised that over 4 hours later Radio & Television Investigation Service still reports no problems. (IP121NL)

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

10:20 PM

Mike B: The main ones and larger relays do. Some have two incoming power supplies.

See here for former NGW stations:

http://www.arqiva.com/doc….pdf

Aldeburgh has a single power feed and no generator.

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Mark Pulman
10:36 PM

No signal at Snape IP12 today
Mark

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Ts
10:52 PM

still no signal in Orford & apparently "Aldeburgh Transmitter has no problems" well it obviously does have "problems" as can be verified by posts on this site! No point in having "real time info" if status is not regularly updated, webmaster please note.

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Sunday, 5 January 2014
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P osborne
12:26 AM

Mark Pulman: we have just got signal back in ip122eq.
No indication on the internet that there is/was a problem until I saw my neighbour's post.

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Mark Pulman
12:38 AM
Woodbridge

P osborne: Hey Priscilla, yep, you're correct, just checked and it's all good! :-)


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