Full Freeview on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter which serves 440,000 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 Sudbury (Suffolk, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Sudbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Sudbury (Suffolk, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Sudbury transmitter?
BBC Look East (East) 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Norwich NR2 1BH, 77km north-northeast (24°)
to BBC East region - 27 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from NORWICH NR1 3JG, 78km north-northeast (24°)
to ITV Anglia (East) region - 26 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (West)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Felixstowe West | Transposer | 1000 homes +1000 or more homes due to expansion of affected area? | |
| Witham | Transposer | 14 km NE Chelmsford. | 118 homes |
How will the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Aug 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | K T | |||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C60tv_off | -ArqA |
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 6 Jul 11 and 20 Jul 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 100kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 8.1kW | |
| Mux B* | (-15.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1* | (-15.5dB) 7kW | |
| Mux A* | (-17dB) 5kW | |
| Mux C* | (-22.2dB) 1.5kW | |
| Mux D* | (-23.6dB) 1.1kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sudbury transmitter area
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Sunday, 28 September 2025
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Chris.SE11:53 PM
nick: Stevensonln1
I'm no satellite expert by any means, but according to Wikipedia -
Al Jazeera is on Sky 511 or Freesat 203.
TRT World is Sky 513 HD or 886 SD and 215 on Freesat.
But according to the list here which could be out of date, on Sky it's 516
So I don't understand how it all works then if it's a Sky Box!
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Monday, 29 September 2025
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StevensOnln110:52 AM
Chris.SE: I've been using TV Guide | Freesat as an up to date reference for Freesat channel numbers. Sky appear to have removed their online TV Guide from their website so that can no longer be used to check channel numbers.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2025
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Chris.SE1:19 AM
StevensOnln1: nick:
Apart from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/…dom)
I've often looked at these for info -
https://www.tvchannellists.com/w/Master_list_of_digital_television_channels_(United_Kingdom_and_Ireland)
https://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/United-Kingdom.html
https://viewersvault.com/Master_list_of_satellite_television_channels_(United_Kingdom_and_Ireland)
https://en.satexpat.com/tv/uk/fta/
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nick11:52 PM
gentlemen, have you actually learnt the current whereabouts of AlJazeera and TRT of freesat now?
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Wednesday, 1 October 2025
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StevensOnln112:07 PM
nick: As me and Chris have both said, Al Jazeera is on Freesat channel 203 and TRT World is on 215. Both channels changed transponder at the end of August but the channel numbers have not changed. Did you follow my suggesting of powering your box off at the mains for a few minutes or looking for a channel scan option in the menu?
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Friday, 17 October 2025
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nick7:34 AM
stevens, I turn my box off nightly at the mains.
I do not know how to do a scan on freesat, I will have to try.
I get a message on the screen about both these, apparently saying they are no longer there.
Are these the only channels to have changed transponder? The others seem still to be there.
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StevensOnln111:46 PM
nick: Which model of Freesat box do you have? Most satellite receivers are generally designed to be left in low power standby mode overnight rather than being switched off at the mains, so that could have a bearing on the channels not updating correctly.
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Thursday, 23 October 2025
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nick7:12 PM
Stevens,
It is a Humax pvr.
Are they supposed to update themselves? With freeview we have to do it ourselves.
Thanks to your help, I have now got the two missing channels back
I have nothing between 165 and 200 though. Is this as it should be?
Thanks
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StevensOnln17:20 PM
nick: All Freesat boxes are designed to update their channel lists automatically, however some older models only do so overnight, so it may be down to you powering your box off overnight when it is designed to be left on in standby mode, that it isn't updating correctly.
The entertainment channels currently go up to 165 then news starts at 200. There is a full list of channels on the online TV guide on Freesat's website at the link below:
TV Guide | Freesat
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