Editing East Midlands (section)

===Television===
[[File:Waltham on the Wolds Transmitter - geograph.org.uk - 41129.jpg|thumb|220px|The [[Waltham transmitting station|Waltham on the Wolds transmitter]] covers large parts of the region.]]
The [[BBC East Midlands]] region of [[BBC Television]], based in Nottingham, produces several regional television programmes including the news programme ''[[East Midlands Today]]'' from [[Waltham transmitting station|Waltham]]. This excludes most of [[Northamptonshire]], north [[Nottinghamshire]] and north [[Derbyshire]].

Most of Lincolnshire is covered by the [[BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire]] region based in [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], with its ''[[BBC Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)|Look North]]'' programme from [[Belmont transmitting station|Belmont]]; north Nottinghamshire ([[Retford]], [[Worksop, Nottinghamshire|Worksop]] and [[Bassetlaw District|Bassetlaw]]), northeast Derbyshire ([[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]]), the eastern [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]] ([[Hope Valley, Derbyshire|Hope Valley]]) and northern area of the [[Derbyshire Dales]] ([[Tideswell]] and [[Hathersage]]) are covered by [[BBC Yorkshire]] from [[Emley Moor transmitting station|Emley Moor]], with its ''[[BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)|Look North]]'' from [[Leeds]].

The western area of the [[High Peak, Derbyshire|High Peak]] ([[Buxton, Derbyshire|Buxton]], [[Glossop, Derbyshire|Glossop]], [[New Mills, Derbyshire|New Miils]] and [[Chapel-en-le-Frith]]) in Derbyshire are covered by [[BBC North West]] from [[Winter Hill transmitting station|Winter Hill]] and [[Granada Television]], both based in [[Salford]]. Most of [[Northamptonshire]] is part of the [[BBC East]] region based in Norwich and has the [[BBC Look East|Look East]] programme from [[Sandy Heath transmitting station|Sandy Heath]].

Most of Northamptonshire can receive Central News East, with western parts of the county (Daventry) receiving Central News West, and Southern parts of the county (around [[Brackley, Northamptonshire|Brackley]] and [[Towcester, Northamptonshire|Towcester]]) receiving the Thames Valley micro-region of [[ITV Meridian]] (the former Central South region) and the Oxford opt-out of [[South Today|BBC South Today]] from [[Oxford transmitting station|Oxford]]. ''[[Central Tonight|Central News East]]'' also covers the East Midlands, broadcasting from Lenton Lane in Nottingham from March 1984. The studios were closed and is now the [[King's Meadow Campus]] of the [[University of Nottingham]]. These studios had been responsible for ''[[Family Fortunes]]'' and ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]''. Central News East continues, broadcasting from [[Central Independent Television|ITV Central]]'s Birmingham Studios.

Northamptonshire has [[Anglia Television]]'s ''[[Anglia Tonight]]'' programme and most of [[Lincolnshire]] and eastern parts of Nottinghamshire has [[Yorkshire Television]]'s ''[[Calendar (News)|Calendar]]''. [[Digital switchover dates in the United Kingdom|Digital switchover]] took place in April 2011 for the Nottingham and Northampton areas; Waltham and Belmont (including the local repeater stations) changed in late August 2011. [[Midlands Asian Television|MATV]], based in [[Leicester]], caters to the area's large South Asian population.