The Rowridge transmitting station is a facility for FM radio and television transmission at Rowridge on the Isle of Wight in southern England. It currently has a 149.6 metres (491 ft) tall guyed mast, owned and operated by Arqiva (previously National Grid Wireless), though during the summer of 2010 construction started on a 172 metres (564 ft) replacement mast. There is a smaller tower on the site belonging to British Telecom. The station broadcasts with a power of 250 kW (ERP) for FM radio, 500 kW for analogue television, and 20 kW for digital television. In July 2007, Ofcom confirmed that Rowridge would remain an A Group transmitter at Digital switchover; the digital television transmission will then be boosted to 200 kW.
Analogue Channel 5 is not transmitted from Rowridge but was broadcast (at 10 kW) from Fawley Power Station, with the antenna located on the main chimney. Transmissions all fit within the A group and are horizontally polarised. On 25 March 2009, Channel 5's analogue signal was turned off from Fawley Power Station, due to the digital switchover in the neighbouring Westcountry region.
Population coverage for the main four analogue channels is about 1.75 million.
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