Freeview Light on the Margate (Kent, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Margate (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 9,400 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 Margate (Kent, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Margate (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 Freeview channels does the Margate 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C33 (570.0MHz) | 86m | DTG- | 200W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 15 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C51 (714.0MHz) | 86m | DTG- | 200W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (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, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C53 (730.0MHz) | 86m | DTG- | 200W |
 56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 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, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?
The Margate (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 Margate transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 84km west-southwest (249°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 61km west-southwest (257°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Margate (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | B C/D E T | W T | |||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C33 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C39 | SDN | ||||||||
| C42 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C53tv_off | BBCB | BBCB |
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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 200W | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-10dB) 20W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Dover transmitter area
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Monday, 26 March 2012
MARGATE transmitter - Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
MARGATE transmitter - 29 March 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 will be subject to periods of shutdown. Digital services - n/a [DUK] Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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MARGATE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 today to 17:10 today BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 today to 13:00 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 today to 17:10 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 today to 13:00 today [BBC] 29 March 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 18:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 will be subject to periods of shutdown. Digital services - n/a [DUK] Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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MARGATE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 today to 17:10 today BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 today to 13:00 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 today to 17:10 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 today to 13:00 today [BBC] Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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Friday, 30 March 2012
MARGATE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 yesterday to 17:10 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 yesterday to 13:00 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 yesterday to 17:10 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 yesterda [BBC] Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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Saturday, 31 March 2012
MARGATE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 on 29 Mar to 17:10 on 29 Mar BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 on 29 Mar to 13:00 on 29 Mar BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 on 29 Mar to 17:10 on 29 Mar BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 on 29 Ma [BBC] Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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Sunday, 1 April 2012
MARGATE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 on 29 Mar to 17:10 on 29 Mar BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 on 29 Mar to 13:00 on 29 Mar BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 on 29 Mar to 13:00 on 29 Mar BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 on 29 Ma [BBC] Over the next week Margate relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK]
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Monday, 2 April 2012
MARGATE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 on 29 Mar to 17:10 on 29 Mar BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 on 29 Mar to 13:00 on 29 Mar BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 16:10 on 29 Mar to 17:10 on 29 Mar BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 11:35 on 29 Ma [BBC]
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
There are have been a few new PSB relay transmitters which were installed at switchover. Also, many transmitters post-switchover broadcast at a power that (theoretically) provides equivalent coverage to the former analogue. In order to cover the same area, digital transmitters are less powerful than the former analogue ones.
Margate is one of those which is radiating at a higher power, and considerably so. Before switchover, the analogue was transmitted at 20W and an equivalent digital signal would be at 4W. (This is to cover the same area.) However, the digital signals are now being broadcast at 200W.
mb21 says that the broadcast antennas are (or were) directional ones pointing roughly west:
mb21 - The Transmission Gallery
I'm not familiar with the area, but the Dover coverage map on this site shows a gap in the green "served" area which is to the west of the A254, around Tivoli Park. This would appear to be in the direction that the transmitting aerials are pointing. Therefore, I suggest that the Margate transmitter was installed originally to serve this pocket that would appear to have particular difficulty in receiving from Dover.
I wonder, why higher power signals after switchover? I wonder if this has been done in conjunction with a replacement antenna system that serves more than just the west. Have they (the ones shown on mb21) been changed for switchover?
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Saturday, 10 August 2013
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Col Stjj9:14 PM
Margate
Transmitter engineering: CT9 3XE, External aerial on roof.
We have a freeview box which 2 days ago lost all the HD channels, i have tried the resets and re tuning and no difference is seen, i can receive all other channels with no problem, any help appreciated
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