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, which the new Digital terrestrial television services now use. There is a smaller tower on the site belonging to British Telecom. Prior to Digital Switchover (DSO) the station broadcast 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 si