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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 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.

Comments
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:05 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:19 on 21 Oct to 16:26 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 04:40 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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9:05 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:23 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 04:40 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:19 on 21 Oct to 16:26 on 21 Oct. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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12:05 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:23 today to 09:13 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 04:40 today to 09:14 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:19 on 21 [BBC]

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Sylvia
12:40 PM

Why have we no signal for its channels in findon valley since 21st October

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Lee Mason
12:56 PM

We have had no (or poor quality) Freeview signal from the Findon Valley transmitter since about Saturday 20th. I am assuming this is due to engineering works? This is ongoing. No signal at all this morning and at the moment no HD channels viewable.

Thanks

Lee

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Transmitter engineering
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3:05 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:23 today to 09:13 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 12:49 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 04:40 today to 09:14 today, [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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6:05 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:23 today to 09:13 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 12:49 today to 13:01 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:19 on 21 [BBC]

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9:05 PM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:23 today to 09:13 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 12:49 today to 13:01 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 04:40 today [BBC]

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S. Sunderland
10:05 PM
Worthing

For the last 2 days, several channels have had no signal (5, 10 particularly)

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

12:05 AM

FINDON transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 06:23 today to 09:13 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 22:35 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 18:41 on 20 Oct to 05:53 on 21 Oct, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 12:49 today to 13:01 today, [BBC]

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