Editing Newcastle upon Tyne (section)

==Media==

===TV and film===
{{See also|Category:Films set in Newcastle upon Tyne|Category:Television shows set in Newcastle upon Tyne}}
The earliest known film featuring some exterior scenes filmed in the city is ''[[On the Night of the Fire]]'' (1939),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/forget-carter-night-fire-first-2636161|title=Forget Get Carter, On the Night of the Fire was first so-called film noir based in Newcastle|date=16 April 2013|work=nechronicle}}</ref> though by and large the action is studio-bound. Later came ''[[The Clouded Yellow]]'' (1951) and ''[[Payroll (film)|Payroll]]'' (1961), both of which feature more extensive scenes filmed in the city. The gangster thriller ''[[Get Carter]]'' (1971) was shot on location in and around Newcastle and offers an opportunity to see what Newcastle looked like in the early 1970s.<ref name="Get Carter">{{Cite news
 | title = Tinseltoon: Get Carter
 | location = Newcastle |publisher=BBC
 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2008/05/21/get_carter_film_feature.shtml
 | access-date = 4 July 2010}}</ref> The city was also backdrop to another gangster film, the [[film noir]] ''[[Stormy Monday (film)|Stormy Monday]]'' (1988), directed by [[Mike Figgis]] and starring [[Tommy Lee Jones]], [[Melanie Griffith]], [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] and [[Sean Bean]].<ref name="Sting2010-07-04">{{Cite news | title = Stormy Monday | publisher = Sting | url = http://www.sting.com/discog/?v=v&a=1&id=340 | access-date = 4 July 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101216162535/http://www.sting.com/discog/?v=v&a=1&id=340 | archive-date = 16 December 2010 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> As well as this, Newcastle was used as the location for ''[[I, Daniel Blake]]'' (2016) which won the [[Palme d'Or]] award at [[Cannes Film Festival]] as well as the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] for [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Outstanding British Film]].

The city has been the setting for films based around football; films such as ''[[Purely Belter]]'' (2000),<ref name="Purely Belter1">{{Cite news
 | title = Tinseltoon: Purely Belter
 |publisher=BBC
 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2008/05/23/film_locations_purely_belter_feature.shtml | access-date = 4 July 2010}}</ref> ''[[The One and Only (2002 film)|The One and Only]]'' (2002)<ref name="The One and Only 2010-07-04">{{Cite news
 | title = The one and only
 | newspaper = The Journal
 | url = http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2002/10/13/our-bid-s-the-one-and-only-61634-12279456/
 | access-date = 4 July 2010
 | archive-date = 18 January 2012
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120118081806/http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2002/10/13/our-bid-s-the-one-and-only-61634-12279456/
 }}</ref> and ''[[Goal! (film)|Goal!]]''<ref name="Goal 2010-07-04">{{cite web
 | title = Hollywood on Tyne
 |publisher=BBC
 | year = 2004
 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/hollywood_on_tyne/goal/goal_launch.shtml
 | access-date = 4 July 2010}}</ref> have all been focused around Tyneside. The comedy ''[[School for Seduction]]'' (2004), starring [[Kelly Brook]] was also filmed in Newcastle.<ref name="SchoolFor">{{cite web
 | title= School For Seduction
 |publisher=BBC
 | year = 2004
 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/08/25/school_for_seduction_2004_review.shtml
 | access-date = 4 July 2010}}</ref>

The [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Hum Tum Aur Ghost]]'' (2010) was shot on location in Newcastle's city centre and features key scenes in and around [[Grainger Town]].<ref name="HumTumAurGhost">{{Cite news
 | last = Mahmood
 | first = Shabnam
 | title = Newcastle makes Bollywood impact
 |publisher=BBC
 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8587000/8587240.stm
 | access-date = 4 July 2010
| date=25 March 2010}}</ref> The film ''[[Public Sex (film)|Public Sex]]'' (2009) was shot in and around Newcastle, and features several scenes under and around the [[Tyne Bridge]].

Crime drama ''[[Harrigan (film)|Harrigan]]'' (2013) was filmed in the city as well as [[Gateshead]] and [[Teesside]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/film-tv/harrigan-film-turns-focus-north-6056288|title=Harrigan film turns focus on North East crime in the seventies|first=Barbara|last=Hodgson|date=18 September 2013|work=journallive|access-date=25 March 2015|archive-date=19 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319215436/http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/film-tv/harrigan-film-turns-focus-north-6056288}}</ref>

===Print media===
Local newspapers that are printed in Newcastle include [[Trinity Mirror]]'s ''[[Evening Chronicle]]'' and ''[[The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne newspaper)|The Journal]]'', the ''[[Sunday Sun]]'' as well as the ''[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]]'' freesheet. ''[[The Crack (magazine)|The Crack]]'' is a monthly style and [[listings magazine]] similar to London's ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]''. The adult comic ''[[Viz (comic)|Viz]]'' originated in [[Jesmond]] and includes many references to Newcastle, and ''The Mag'' is a fanzine for Newcastle United supporters.

===Television===
[[BBC North East and Cumbria]] is based to the north of the city on Barrack Road, [[Spital Tongues]], in a building known as the Pink Palace.<ref name="pink">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/04/26/bbc_newcastle_tours_feature.shtml |title=Take a look around |publisher=BBC Tyne |access-date=21 September 2006}}</ref> It is from here that the [[BBC|Corporation]] broadcasts the ''[[BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria)|Look North]]'' television regional news programme and [[BBC Local Radio|local radio]] station [[BBC Radio Newcastle]].

[[File:Tyne Tees, City Road.jpg|thumb|left|Two converted warehouses provided the base for Tyne Tees on City Road until 2005]]
[[ITV Tyne Tees]] was based at City Road for over 40 years after its launch in January 1959.<ref name="crs">{{cite web|first=Andrew |last=Bowden |title=City Road |url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/tmc/cityroad/studios/cityroad.php |date=1 May 2007 |access-date=17 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903142247/http://www.transdiffusion.org/tmc/cityroad/studios/cityroad.php |archive-date= 3 September 2011 }}</ref> In 2005 it moved to a new facility on The Watermark business park next to the MetroCentre in Gateshead.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Fond Farewell |work=City Road |url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/tmc/cityroad/history/farewell.php |access-date=19 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518003939/http://www.transdiffusion.org/tmc/cityroad/history/farewell.php |archive-date=18 May 2008 }}</ref> The entrance to studio 5 at the City Road complex gave its name to the 1980s music television programme, ''[[The Tube (1982 TV series)|The Tube]]''.<ref name="crs" />

===Radio===
[[Independent Local Radio]] stations include [[Hits Radio North East]]  and sister station [[Greatest Hits Radio North East]]. [[Capital North East]] broadcasts across Newcastle and the [[North East England]] region.<ref>{{cite web|title=Capital FM North East |url=http://capitalfm.com/tyneandwear |access-date=11 March 2012 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> [[Heart North East]] and [[Smooth North East]] also broadcast from the city.
[[File:BBC Newcastle.jpg|thumb|BBC Newcastle]]
[[NE1fm]] launched in June 2007, the first full-time [[community radio]] station in the area.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Radio station launch |work=Evening Chronicle |url=http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/chroniclelive/eveningchronicle/chroniclearchive/2007/06/07/radio-station-launch-50081-19260930/ |date=7 July 2007 |access-date=21 September 2007}}</ref>

Newcastle Student Radio is run by students from both of the city's universities during term time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Student media |publisher=Newcastle University |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/life/union/media.htm |access-date=22 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080330182738/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/life/union/media.htm |archive-date=30 March 2008 }}</ref> Radio Tyneside<ref>{{cite web
 |title       = Radio Tyneside
 |publisher   = radiotyneside.co.uk
 |url         = http://www.radiotyneside.co.uk/2010/Home.php
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120819083446/http://www.radiotyneside.co.uk/2010/Home.php
 |archive-date = 19 August 2012
|df          = dmy-all
}}</ref> has been the voluntary [[hospital radio]] service for most hospitals across Newcastle and Gateshead since 1951. 
<ref>{{cite web
 |title=Hospedia
 |work=Newcastle NHS Hospedia page
 |url=http://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk/patient-guides/patient-services_hospedia.aspx
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906034800/http://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk/patient-guides/patient-services_hospedia.aspx
|archive-date=6 September 2012
}}</ref><ref name="radiotyneside">{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotyneside.co.uk/f18/main/posts/article.php?post_ref=20|title=Newsdesk|website=Radio Tyneside|access-date=18 January 2021|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122221000/https://www.radiotyneside.co.uk/f18/main/posts/article.php?post_ref=20}}</ref><ref name="ofcom">{{cite web|url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/112405/March-2018-community-radio-licence-awards.pdf|author=Susan Williams|publisher=Ofcom|date=29 March 2018|title=Community radio – Eight community radio licence awards: March 2018 |access-date=18 January 2021}}</ref>
The city also has a Radio Lollipop station based at the Great North Children's Hospital in the Newcastle [[Royal Victoria Infirmary]].

===City-centre Wi-Fi===

Newcastle was one of the first cities in the UK to have its city centre covered by free [[Wi-Fi|wireless internet]] access. It was developed and installed at the end of 2006 and went active in March 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Newcastle joins UK 'wireless city' revolution |publisher=24dash.com |url=http://www.24dash.com/news/Central_Government/2006-11-13-Newcastle-joins-UK-wireless-city-revolution |access-date=29 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109024413/http://www.24dash.com/news/Central_Government/2006-11-13-Newcastle-joins-UK-wireless-city-revolution |archive-date=9 January 2009 }}</ref>