Editing Canterbury (section)

== Local media ==

=== Newspapers ===
Canterbury's first newspaper was the ''[[Kentish Post]]'', founded in 1717.<ref name=Wiles>RM Wiles, ''Freshest advices: early provincial newspapers in England'', Ohio State University Press, 1965, p. 397.</ref> It merged with newly founded ''[[Kentish Gazette]]'' in 1768<ref>[http://www.kentonline.co.uk/km_group/km_group/history/over_150_years_of_history.aspx KM Group – Over 150 years of history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803172936/http://www.kentonline.co.uk/km_group/km_group/history/over_150_years_of_history.aspx |date=3 August 2009 }}. Kentonline.co.uk. Retrieved on 25 August 2011.</ref> which is still being published, claiming to be the country's second oldest surviving newspaper.<ref>[http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/about_the_team.aspx About the team – Kentish Gazette] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607115804/http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentish_gazette/about_the_team.aspx |date=7 June 2009 }}. Kentonline.co.uk. Retrieved on 25 August 2011.</ref> It is currently produced as a paid-for newspaper by [[KM Group]] in [[Whitstable]] with a 25,000 circulation across East Kent.<ref>{{cite web |  title = Kentish Gazette |  publisher = The Newspaper Society and AdWeb Ltd |  url = http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/newspaperdetail.cfm?paperid=561 |  access-date = 28 May 2008 |  archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060209110454/http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/newspaperdetail.cfm?paperid=561 |  archive-date = 9 February 2006 |  url-status = usurped }}</ref>

Three free weekly newspapers provide local news. The [[Daily Mail and General Trust]]'s ''Canterbury Times'' has a circulation of 55,000.<ref>{{cite web
  |  title = Canterbury Adscene
  |  publisher = The Newspaper Society and AdWeb Ltd
  |  url = http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/newspaperdetail.cfm?paperid=192
  |  access-date = 28 May 2008
|  archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060209110146/http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/newspaperdetail.cfm?paperid=192
  |  archive-date = 9 February 2006
|  url-status = usurped
  }}</ref> Similar circulation ''Canterbury Extra'' is owned by [[KM Group]].<ref>{{cite web |  title = Canterbury KM Extra |  publisher = The Newspaper Society and AdWeb Ltd |  url = http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/newspaperdetail.cfm?paperid=193 |  access-date = 28 May 2008 |  archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060209110155/http://www.nsdatabase.co.uk/newspaperdetail.cfm?paperid=193 |  archive-date = 9 February 2006 |  url-status = usurped }}</ref> ''yourcanterbury'' is published by [[KOS Media]], which also prints [[Kent on Sunday]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk|title=yourcanterbury website|website=KOS Media|access-date=6 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822093621/http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/|archive-date=22 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Radio===
Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Kent]] on 104.2FM, [[Heart South]] on 102.8FM and [[KMFM Canterbury]] on 106FM. KMFM Canterbury was formerly KMFM106, and from foundation in 1997 until [[KM Group]] took control CTFM, a reference to Canterbury's CT postcode.<ref>[http://www.kmfm.co.uk/canterbury KMFM 106] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714221442/http://www.kmfm.co.uk/canterbury |date=14 July 2007 }} KMFM Canterbury Website. Retrieved on 30 May 2008.</ref> KMFM's studio moved from the city to [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2999|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229060116/http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2999|url-status=dead|title=Co-location request for KMFM|archivedate=29 February 2012}}</ref> Canterbury [[Hospital Radio]] serves [[Kent and Canterbury Hospital]],<ref>[http://www.canterburyhr.org.uk Hospital radio]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509212915/http://www.canterburyhr.org.uk/ |date=9 May 2010 }}. Canterbury Hospital Radio. Retrieved on 30 May 2008.</ref> and SBSLive's coverage is limited to the Simon Langton Boys School grounds.<ref name="langtonradio">[http://www.thelangton.org.uk/doDownload.php Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Retrieved on 25 May 2008.</ref>

From 2007 to 2020 Canterbury was also served by the country's first student led community radio station CSR 97.4FM. CSR means "Canterbury Student Radio" but it was a radio station catering to the students of the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University, other educational establishments and the wider community being a collaboration of the two university's and broadcasting from studios at both. It replaced the student radio stations that served both university's being UKCR and C4 Radio respectively. In 2020 due to the COVID pandemic the station management decided to hand back the FM licence to OFCOM due to rising costs and has been broadcasting online since. There are plans for CSR to go on the recently awarded digital radio multiplex when it launches in the near future.{{CN|date=November 2024}}

===Television===
Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC South East]] and [[ITV Meridian]] from the [[Dover transmitting station|Dover]] TV transmitter.