Editing Hawick (section)

===Media and film===

Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC Scotland]] and [[ITV Border]]. Television signals are received from the [[Selkirk transmitting station|Selkirk]] TV transmitter and the local relay transmitter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Hawick|title=Freeview Light on the Hawick (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=11 December 2023}}</ref> Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Scotland]] on 93.5&nbsp;FM, [[Radio Borders|Greatest Hits Radio Scottish Borders and North Northumberland]] on 96.8&nbsp;FM and TD9 Radio, an online community based station which broadcast from the town.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://td9radio.online/spotlight/about |title=About Us|website=TD9 Radio|date=22 January 2022 |access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref> The town is served by its own local newspaper, ''The Hawick Paper''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thehawickpaper.co.uk/#:~:text=Owned%20and%20Edited%20Locally%20%7C%20The%20Hawick%20Paper |title=The Hawick Paper|access-date=11 December 2023}}</ref> Other newspapers that cover the town are ''The Border Telegraph'' and ''[[Southern Reporter (newspaper)|Southern Reporter]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/scotland/border-telegraph/|title=Border Telegraph|date=23 November 2013|website=British Papers|accessdate=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/scotland/southern-reporter/|title=Southern Reporter|date=21 January 2014|website=British Papers|accessdate=11 December 2023}}</ref>

Hawick is home to Alchemy Film & Arts, and its internationally renowned flagship annual event [[Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival|Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival]]. Investing in film "as a means of generating discussion, strengthening community, and stimulating creative thought",<ref>{{Cite web|last=Disbury|first=Rachael|title=About Alchemy Film & Arts|url=https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/about-alchemy-film-arts/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=Alchemy Film & Arts|language=en-GB|archive-date=12 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412114923/https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/about-alchemy-film-arts/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alchemy works with artists and communities within Hawick and the Scottish Borders on a year-round basis. In summer 2019, Alchemy launched its award-winning ''Film Town'' project, which "aims to work to the benefit of Hawick and its unique communities by widening accessibility and inclusion for audiences, participants and partners, and by challenging social, physical and communication barriers... while contributing to Hawick's economic regeneration through an investment in its cultural identity".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pattison|first=Michael|title=FILM TOWN|url=https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/film-town/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=Alchemy Film & Arts|language=en-GB}}</ref>

In response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Alchemy delivered the tenth and eleventh editions of its annual film festival as [[Livestreaming|livestream events]] delivered from Hawick, and assisted in helping the town's communities to digitise their own services, including the production of virtual lectures for the town's 164-year-old Hawick Archaeological Society.