Media and Communications
The town is covered by several different media providers, on a number of formats.
Television - Local news programmes - BBC Points West & ITV West Country.
Radio - BBC Wiltshire, Heart Wiltshire, and locally based Community Radio station - Eartunes . The town was served by Brunel FM, before the station went into liquidation. The frequency has since been taken over by Total Star.
Calne is listed under British Telecom's 01249 STD prefix, which includes Chippenham. It is within the Bath & West Wiltshire BT Phonebook area and lies just inside the Swindon Yellow Pages area.
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