Editing Amersham (section)

==Media and communications==

===Local newspapers===
The local newspaper covering Amersham and the surrounding area was the ''[[Buckinghamshire Examiner]]'', founded in 1889, until its closure in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chesham.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/ |title=Buckinghamshire Examiner |access-date=19 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525042501/http://chesham.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/ |archive-date=25 May 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Another Buckinghamshire newspaper with a circulation area covering Amerham is the ''[[Bucks Free Press]]''.<ref>[https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/amersham/ Bucks Free Press] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522230257/http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/localnews/cheshamnews/ |date=22 May 2009 }}</ref>

===Local radio===

The Ofcom-licensed community radio station for the Chilterns is [[Chiltern Voice FM|Chiltern Voice]] which broadcasts on 107.4&nbsp;FM.

===TV and mobile phone signals===
Due to its position in a fold in the hill, TV and radio reception in Amersham can be poor and the town now has its own TV mast (at Chesham Bois). In the 1970s, Amersham was one of the last towns in the south-east to receive [[BBC2]], and parts of it still cannot receive [[Five (channel)|Channel 5]]. Houses taking their TV reception from the Chesham Bois transmitter<ref>[http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/chesham.shtml Chesham transmitter] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221655/http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/chesham.shtml |date=26 September 2007 }}</ref> have vertically polarised aerials, whilst those in a good enough position receive their signal from the [[Crystal Palace Transmitter]] in London with horizontally polarised aerials&nbsp;– they always could receive BBC2 (and indeed Channel 4 & Channel 5). [[Digital terrestrial television]] coverage is patchy for much the same reason. Mobile phone reception can be poor in the steeper parts of Chesham and outlying villages.