The station is situated on the crest of the North Downs and comprises five steel lattice towers, each 45 to 50 metres tall - their height being limited by the location of nearby Rochester Airport.

It broadcasts digital television, FM and DAB radio to much of north, west, and central Kent, and an overspill service into southern Essex.

It stopped broadcasting analogue television when the digital switchover was completed on 27 June 2012.

Between its opening in 1974 and 31 December 1981 the transmitter broadcast Thames Television (weekdays) and London Weekend Television (weekends), being switched on 1 January 1982 to carry signals from the new ITV franchise TVS (Television South), until superseded on 1 January 1993 by ITV Meridian (East) for ITV in the south east.

This transmitter has 4 relays: Chatham Town, Farleigh, Gillingham Testing Centre and Sittingbourne.