Les Platons is the highest point of Jersey, a British Crown dependency, with an elevation of 136 metres (446 ft).

It transmitted BBC Television on the VHF 405 line service on channel 4 from Monday 3 October 1955.

[4] The site was also used to bring the BBC national radio stations to the Channel Islands.

[5] The Fremont Point transmitter about 2 km west of Les Platons would go on the air in September 1962 bringing Independent Television (ITV) to the Channel Islands for the first time in the form of the ITV franchise Channel Television.

In due course Fremont Point became the main television transmitter site for the Channel Islands.