BBC South West
Radio stations | BBC Radio Guernsey BBC Radio Cornwall BBC Radio Devon BBC Radio Somerset BBC Radio Solent BBC Radio Jersey |
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Headquarters | Plymouth |
Area | Cornwall Devon Isles of Scilly West Somerset parts of Taunton Deane West Dorset Channel Islands |
Nation | BBC English Regions |
Key people | Leo Devine (Head of Regional & Local Programmes) |
Official website | http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hi/default.stm |
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BBC South West is the BBC English Region serving Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, West Somerset, West Dorset and Channel Islands.
Services
Television
BBC South West's television service (broadcast on
BBC South West covers Cornwall, Channel Islands, Devon, West Dorset and West Somerset
Due to the size of West Dorset, the listenership of BBC Radio Solent is covered by both BBC South and BBC South West.
Radio
The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Jersey and BBC Radio Guernsey.
On weekdays, the five stations carry local programming between 5 am and 7 pm before joining together for networked programming between 7 pm and closedown at 1 am. Weekend evening programmes are also simulcast with stations in the BBC West region.
Online and Interactive
BBC South West also produces regional news & local radio pages for BBC Red Button and BBC Local websites for each county.
History
Television
BBC South West began a regional television service on 20 April 1961 (nine days before the first broadcast of the rival
An opt-out for the Channel Islands was introduced during the 1990s, beginning with short bulletins after the
Following the merger of Westcountry and HTV West to become ITV West & Westcountry in February 2009 (later becoming "ITV West Country" on 1 January 2014), Spotlight is now the only regional TV news service dedicated entirely to, and produced in, the South West, as the ITV service (ITV News West Country) is based in Bristol with bulletins and opt-outs for the region. ITV Channel Television continues to produce and broadcast its own dedicated local news service for the Channel Islands from its studios near St Helier in Jersey.
Studios
The regional headquarters and television centre is at Broadcasting House in the Mannamead area of Plymouth, with offices and television studios also in St Helier, Saint Peter Port, Dorchester, Taunton, Truro and Exeter.[citation needed]
The Plymouth studios were originally a Victorian villa on Seymour Road called Ingledene before being bought by the BBC following the
See also
- BBC English Regions
- BBC Radio Devon
- BBC Radio Cornwall
- BBC Radio Jersey
- BBC Radio Guernsey
- BBC Radio Somerset
- BBC Radio Solent
References
- ^ "BBC - Press Office - BBC South West confirms move to Sutton Harbour". www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Inquiries over site earmarked for BBC, This is Plymouth". Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "BBC - BBC South West announces major investment in Plymouth Seymour Road base - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk.