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, 29 November 2017
MikeP
5:40 PM
5:40 PM
S Dawkins:
It is also worth contacting your immediate neighbours to check if their Freeview reception is also being affected.
I once had a customer whose colour TV suffered terrible reception between 7 and 8.30 PM every day. It was due to a piece of medical equipment used at that time.
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Dave7:23 PM
I believe Whitehawk Hill is now dual radiating all 6 mux's on other frequencies in the 30's also ?
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StevensOnln111:13 PM
Dave: According to Digital UK's checker, the 3 PSB muxes are being dual radiated on UHF 32/35/36 on a separate radiation pattern but not COM4/5/6 or the local mux. COM4/5/6 are due to move to their new allocations on 14th March 2018 with the duplicated PSB1 moving to 48 at the same time, however the main PSB1/2/3 and the local mux will move to their final allocations in late 2019.
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Sunday, 3 December 2017
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Dave10:21 PM
Thanks a lot for the info, how involved all this is, I am just wondering if I ever have a chance of receiving Latest tv here in Patcham
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StevensOnln110:33 PM
Dave: If you put your postcode into this website, a link to the Digital UK trade checker will appear which will show you if you are predicted to gain coverage of the local mux.
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Monday, 19 February 2018
Transmitter engineering
1:28 PM
1:28 PM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:00 today to 09:52 today. [BBC]
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Freeview HD has not worked properly today on any of my TV's since the maintenance work this morning on whitehawk hill transmitter... please can you fix it...!!
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Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Transmitter engineering
4:28 AM
4:28 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:00 yesterday to 09:52 yesterday. [BBC]
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Rob8:28 PM
Since yesterday evening all Freeview HD channels (C51) are suffering frequent (every 2-3seconds) sound loss and picture freeze. Other Freeview channels are unaffected. Both TV and PVR tuners affected. Strength 83% Quality 100%.
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Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Transmitter engineering
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:00 on 19 Feb to 09:52 on 19 Feb. [BBC]
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