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The symbol shows the location of the Findon (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 2,600 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 Findon (West Sussex, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Findon 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
C44 (658.0MHz)157mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C41 (634.0MHz)157mDTG-2,000W
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)157mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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?

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the effected channels

The Findon (West Sussex, 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 Findon transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 70km west (275°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 59km west (272°)
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 Findon (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1331 Mar 2018-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 2kW
Analogue 1-4(-16dB) 50W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge 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. Findon 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.

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Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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7:32 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 20:31 on 31 Oct to 20:45 on 31 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:53 on 01 Nov to 08:08 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:33 on 01 Nov to 21:39 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality f [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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4:32 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 20:31 on 31 Oct to 20:45 on 31 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:33 on 01 Nov to 21:39 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:07 yesterday to 09:19 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality f [BBC]

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Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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10:33 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 20:31 on 31 Oct to 20:45 on 31 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:33 on 01 Nov to 21:39 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:07 on 02 Nov to 09:19 on 02 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality f [BBC]

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1:32 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 20:31 on 31 Oct to 20:45 on 31 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:53 on 01 Nov to 08:08 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 20:32 on 31 Oct to 20:38 on 31 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality f [BBC]

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Thursday, 5 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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4:32 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:33 on 01 Nov to 21:39 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:07 on 02 Nov to 09:19 on 02 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:53 on 01 Nov to 08:08 on 01 Nov. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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1:32 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:33 on 01 Nov to 21:39 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:53 on 01 Nov to 08:08 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:07 on 02 Nov to 09:19 on 02 Nov. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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4:32 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:53 on 01 Nov to 08:08 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:33 on 01 Nov to 21:39 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:07 on 02 Nov to 09:19 on 02 Nov. [BBC]

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Friday, 6 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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4:32 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 07:07 on 02 Nov to 09:19 on 02 Nov. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 19 January 2016
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Stuart Newman
12:12 PM

Hi, I have just purchased a new sony tv with freeview built in allowing me to dump sky and return to plugging the good old fashioned coax cable back into my wall socket.

It seems to be working well with stunning picture quality but the hd channels do seem to drop out with any slightly un-settled weather conditions and I get a message saying no signal from antenna! I move to regular channels and they can still be problematic but sod it I want HD!

Now my roof top ariel, cabel and socket are all very old so I've purchased a new digi ariel and I will be fixing it to my chimney and running a new cable to a new wall socket at the weekend but my question is concerning where my ariel should point.

I am aware that the ariel should point towards the transmitter on the West side of Findon valley. However I've read that if your not sure you should be looking up at all of the other ariels in your street to see where they are pointing. Here is my problem/debate I think. All the ariels on the rooftops near me point west parallel to the seafront towards Goring and not North West towards Findon Valley.

So are we all wrong? Would pointing my old ariel towards Findon solve the drop out issue? Or is my ariel facing west enough to pick up good signal and that it's the age and condition of my old components that is the problem?

I'm going to fit a my new one in any case because I want nice new modern equipment and it is easily do-able within my skill range. Plus it will be easier than getting further up on to my roof to undo the rusted bolts that will allow me to swivel my current ariel. I will still have the issue of where to point my ariel. Follow the crowd and go west or point it towards Findon?

Any help or experience will be greatly received. Thanks...

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MikeB
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2:11 PM

Stuart Newman: A postcode would be a huge help....

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