Editing South West England (section)

==Local media==
[[File:BBC Radio Swindon - geograph.org.uk - 110351.jpg|thumb|right|[[BBC Radio Wiltshire]]'s building in Swindon]]
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===Television===
*[[BBC South West]], based in [[Plymouth]] with the ''[[Spotlight (BBC News)|Spotlight]]'' regional programme.
*[[BBC West]], based in [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]] in Bristol with the ''[[BBC Points West|Points West]]'' regional programme. 
*[[ITV West Country]], based in Bristol (following the merger of [[ITV Wales & West|ITV West]] and [[ITV Westcountry]]), with the ''[[ITV News West Country]]'' regional programme.
Parts of Wiltshire and Dorset, including the Salisbury, Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester and Weymouth areas, receive [[BBC South]] and [[ITV Meridian]] from [[Southampton]].

===Radio===
[[BBC Local Radio]] services in the region include [[BBC Radio Cornwall|Cornwall]], [[BBC Radio Devon|Devon]], [[BBC Radio Somerset|Somerset]], [[BBC Radio Bristol|Bristol]], [[BBC Radio Wiltshire|Wiltshire]], and [[BBC Radio Gloucestershire|Gloucestershire]], along with [[BBC Radio Solent]]'s partial opt-out service for Dorset.

Commercial radio stations include:
*[[Heart West]], owned by [[Global Media & Entertainment|Global]], broadcasts a regional weekday programme for the South West, as well as localised news on frequencies previously occupied by [[Heart West Country]] (Bristol/Bath), [[Heart Devon]], [[Heart Gloucestershire]], [[Heart Wiltshire]], and [[Atlantic FM]] (Cornwall).
*[[Greatest Hits Radio South West]], owned by [[Bauer Radio|Bauer]], occupies a number of frequencies previously broadcast as part of [[The Breeze (radio network)|The Breeze network]]. As on Heart, one regional weekday afternoon programme for the wider region is retained alongside local news and advertising. A version of GHR for Cornwall is provided on DAB and online. The former [[Spire FM]] ([[Salisbury]]), and [[Wessex FM]] ([[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]) broadcast as part of [[Greatest Hits Radio South]] in a similar manner.
*Bauer Radio also operates, as of September 2021:
**[[Hits Radio]] services for [[Sam FM (Bristol)|Bristol]] (formerly [[Sam FM (Bristol)|Sam FM]]) and [[Fire Radio|Bournemouth]] (previously [[Fire Radio]]); each has a local afternoon drivetime programme, taking Hits Radio Network content at other times including breakfast.
**[[Kiss (UK radio station)|Kiss]] (national service, formerly [[Kiss 101]] for the Severn Estuary region).
**[[Pirate FM]] (Cornwall), which has retained much of its local identity and programming.
* [[Radio Exe]] (formerly Exeter FM) is an independent locally-run commercial station for Exeter. The station expanded to serve [[Plymouth]] via the [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB digital radio]] platform in March 2022.<ref>[https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/radio-exe-expands-to-cover-whole-of-devon/ Radio Exe, 2022-03-04]</ref>
* Licensed community radio services in the region include [[BCfm]] (Bristol), [[Soundart Radio]] (Totnes), [[FromeFM]] (Somerset), [[Gloucester FM]], [[Phonic FM]] (Exeter), [[Somer Valley FM]] (north Somerset), [[Radio St Austell Bay]] (Cornwall), [[Ujima Radio]] (Bristol), [[The Voice (North Devon)]], [[East Devon Radio]] (formerly ExmouthAiR and Bay FM), and [[Cross Rhythms Plymouth]].

National radio is transmitted from [[North Hessary Tor transmitting station|North Hessary Tor]] (west Devon) and [[Wenvoe transmitting station|Wenvoe]] (west of Cardiff).

===Newspapers===
Regional newspapers include the [[Bath Chronicle]], [[Bristol Post]], [[Western Daily Press]], the [[Dorset Echo]], the [[Express & Echo|Exeter Express and Echo]], [[Western Morning News]], the [[North Devon Journal]], [[Cornish Guardian]], [[The West Briton]] (Truro), [[The Cornishman (newspaper)|The Cornishman]], [[Wiltshire Times]] ([[Trowbridge]]), [[Gazette and Herald]] (North & West Wiltshire), [[Gloucestershire Echo]], [[Gloucester Citizen]], [[Plymouth Evening Herald|Plymouth Herald]], [[Torquay Herald Express]], [[Swindon Advertiser]] and the [[Salisbury Journal]].