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The symbol shows the location of the Rye (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 1,000 homes.
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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.
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
| Mux | Aerial position | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
PSB1
BBCA | vertical max | C54 (738.0MHz) | 58m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 50W |
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1 BBC One South East, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others 200 BBC Red Button, 700 BBC Radio 1, 701 BBC 1Xtra, 702 BBC Radio 2, 703 BBC Radio 3, 704 BBC Radio 4, 705 BBC Radio 5 Live, 706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, 707 BBC 6 Music, 708 BBC Radio 4 Extra, 709 BBC Asian Network, 710 BBC World Service,
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PSB2
D3+4 | vertical max | C46 (674.0MHz) | 58m | 64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2 | 50W |
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3 ITV (Meridian (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Meridian south coast),
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PSB3
BBCB | vertical max | C56 (754.0MHz) | 58m | 256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 | 50W |
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101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
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The
Rye (East Sussex, England) mast is a
public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these
commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.
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.
Regional news from the Rye transmitter
How the transmission frequencies change over time
| years | 1950s~85 | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-18 | |
| aerial group | VHF | E | E | E | E | E | E | |
| C3 | BBCtv | | | | | | | |
| C41 | | ITV | ITV | ITV | | | | |
| C44 | | BBC2 | BBC2 | BBC2 | | | | |
| C46 | | | | | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |
| C47 | | C4 | C4 | C4 | | | | |
| 700 | C54 | | | | | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |
| C56 | | | | | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |
| C58 | | BBC1 | BBC1 | BBC1 | | | | |
| orange background for multiplexes names more | green background for transmission frequencies | lilac background for power levels in watts | 800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013 | 700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more | 600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more |
Notes:
+ and
- denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as
A B C/D E K WItalics for
analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 30th May and 13th June 2012.
Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 50W | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-5.9dB) 13W | |
History of Channel 3 in the Dover transmitter area
| Aug 1958-Jan 1992 | Southern Television |
| Jan 1982-Dec 1992 | Television South (TVS) |
| Jan 1993-Dec 2014 | Meridian |
| | Feb 1983-Dec 1992 | TV-am• |
| Jan 1993-Sep 2010 | GMTV• |
| Sep 2010-Dec 2014 | ITV Daybreak• |
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• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Rye 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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RYE transmitter - Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 today to 10:17 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 today to 10:17 today [BBC] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 yesterday to 10:17 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 yesterday to 10:17 yesterday [BBC] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 on 16 Jun to 10:17 on 16 Jun BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 on 16 Jun to 10:17 on 16 Jun [BBC] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK] RYE transmitter - 01 September 2011: 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 Digital services - Not Applicable [DUK] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 09:02 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 09:02 today [BBC] 01 September 2011: 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 Digital services - Not Applicable [DUK] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 09:02 today to 12:12 today BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 09:02 today to 12:12 today [BBC] 01 September 2011: 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 Digital services - Not Applicable [DUK] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 09:02 yesterday to 12:12 yesterday BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 09:02 yesterday to 12:12 yesterday [BBC] 01 September 2011: 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 Digital services - Not Applicable [DUK] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK] RYE transmitter - 23 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 Rye relay: TV (analogue) Service Shutdowns, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK] D GreenTuesday 3 July 2012 6:00PM
Rye I have recently moved house in Rye. In my new house the TV (Yagi) aerial seems to be aligned to the Rye transmitter. I get good reception on those channels (eg BBC1, BBC2, BBC 3, BBC 4) broadcast on Channel 54 and those on Channel 46 (eg ITV 1, ITV 2, Channel 4), but can't get ITV 3. As far as I can see, the reason is the Rye transmitter does not broadcast this - are there plans to transmit ITV 3 in the future?D Green: Unfortunately not; the Commercial (COM) multiplexes do not have as wide a coverage as the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) ones. The main reason being that the small transmitters like Rye don't carry them because the operators don't regard it as worthwhile to pay for them.
The UK now has a two-tier terrestrial transmitter network. 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population) carry all six multiplexes (three PSBs plus three COMs) and these serve around 90% of the population. (A multiplex is a single signal that carries multiple "services".)
The other 1,000 or so small "filler-in" relays like Rye carry only PSBs and serve about 8.5% of the population.
The reason for this is because the Commercial broadcasters operate for profit only and have no "Public Service" obligation. They were invited to increase their coverage and declined. For them to transmit from the 1,000 relays would roughly double their cost of transmission. As they are interested in getting as many viewers as possible at lowest possible cost (to show advertising to), then it's not surprising that they've stuck with the biggest transmitters.
Reception from Dover may be possible. I had a look down your road on Streetview and all the aerials I could see were on Dover. So you may be lucky and be able to receive the full complement of channels from Dover. RYE transmitter - 19 and 20 July 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 08:00hrs and 16:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - n/a Digital services - PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 will be subject to periods of shutdown [DUK] Over the next week Rye relay: TV (digital) Service Shutdowns, Radio (analogue) working normally, no digital radio. [DUK] RYE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 09:06 on 24 Sep to 09:17 on 24 Sep BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 09:00 on 24 Sep to 09:05 on 24 Sep [BBC] RYE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 09:00 on 24 Sep to 09:05 on 24 Sep BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 09:06 on 24 Sep to 09:17 on 24 Sep [BBC] updates
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