Editing Pontefract (section)

==Media, arts and entertainment==
Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC Yorkshire]] and [[ITV Yorkshire]]. Television signals are received from the [[Emley Moor transmitting station|Emley Moor]] TV transmitter. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Emley_Moor|title=Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=20 September 2023}}</ref>

Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Leeds]] on 92.4&nbsp;FM, [[Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire]] (formerly [[Ridings FM]]) on 106.8 FM, [[Heart Yorkshire]] on 106.2&nbsp;FM, [[Hits Radio West Yorkshire]] (formerly [[Pulse 1]]) on 102.5 FM, [[Capital Yorkshire]] on 105.1&nbsp;FM and 5 Towns FM, a community online radio station that broadcasts from [[Castleford, West Yorkshire|Castleford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://internetradiouk.com/5-towns-fm/|title=5 Towns FM Radio Online|website=Internetradiouk.com|accessdate=20 September 2023}}</ref>

The local newspaper is the ''Pontefract and Castleford Express''. 

Novelist [[Jack Vance]], in the "[[Demon Princes]]" cycle has named the capital of Aloysius, the main planet in the Vega system, after Pontefract. The hero of the series, Kirth Gersen, has his residence there.

Pontefract made local and national newspapers in April 2020, with a range of art which lay tribute to the key workers and NHS during the coronavirus outbreak. The art was painted by a local mural artist, Rachel List.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Frame|first1=Nick|last2=Hale|first2=Olivia|title='I never expected this'-Pontefract Artist's surprise as NHS tributes are shared across the world|url=https://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/people/i-never-expected-pontefract-artists-surprise-nhs-tributes-are-shared-across-world-2534501|newspaper=Pontefract and Castleford Express|date=9 April 2020|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref>