South East England - Local Media

Local Media

As elsewhere in England, the media landscape in South East England is dominated by national television, radio, newspapers and magazines, most of which are based in London. Local media include:

• The BBC South region is based on Havelock Road in Southampton; it has the South Today regional programme. The BBC South East is based in Tunbridge Wells; it has the South East Today regional programme. Most of Buckinghamshire is in the BBC South and ITV South region but most of Milton Keynes UA is covered by the BBC East region from Norwich, with the Look East programme. The ITV region for most of Milton Keynes is Anglia Television with the Anglia Tonight programme from Norwich. The ITV region for the south of the area is Meridian Broadcasting, which has the local news programme Meridian Tonight broadcast from the ITV broadcasting centre at Whiteley, near Fareham. TV signals come from Oxford at Beckley and Stowood in the north of the region, and Rowridge in the south of the region, the two most powerful transmitters in the region, which carry South Today, along with Hannington in north Hampshire, and Midhurst at Easebourne, near Bexleyhill in West Sussex. South East Today, in the east of the region, comes from the lower-powered Heathfield at Heathfield and Waldron, East Sussex off the A267, Dover in Kent, and the even lower-powered Blue Bell Hill at Aylesford on the North Downs. Digital switchover takes place in early 2012.
• BBC Radios Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Solent, Oxford, Three Counties (Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes), and Kent.
• National radio on FM comes from Rowridge, the most powerful transmitter, then Wrotham (next to the M20), and Oxford.
• Commercial radio stations including Heart Sussex (Brighton), Heart MK (Milton Keynes), Heart Berkshire (Reading), Heart Kent (Whitstable), Capital South Coast (previously known as Galaxy South Coast, and Power FM in Segensworth), Heart Sussex and Surrey (former Mercury FM in Crawley), Passion Radio (Worthing), Heart Oxfordshire (Cowley), Newbury Sound (former Kick FM), the KMFM network of seven stations (Kent), Arrow FM (Hastings), Bright 106.4 FM (Burgess Hill), Mix 107 (High Wycombe), The Breeze (former 107.4 The Quay, Portsmouth; The Saint, Southampton; and Dream 107.2, Winchester), Spirit FM (Chichester), Sovereign FM (Hailsham), Isle of Wight Radio (Newport), Mix 96 (Aylesbury), Wave 105 (Fareham), Juice 107.2 (Brighton), 96.4 Eagle Radio (Guildford), Splash FM (Worthing), Heart Hampshire (Segensworth), Reading 107 FM, and Kestrel FM (Basingstoke, Alton, Petersfield, Haslemere and Bordon) and Jack FM based in Southampton
• Local regional newspapers are the Southern Daily Echo (Southampton), Oxford Times, Oxford Journal, Portsmouth News, Argus (Brighton), Oxford Mail, Reading Evening Post, the KM Group titles (Kent), Surrey Advertiser, Reading Chronicle, Medway News, KOS Media titles (Kent).
• Play Radio UK, based out of Sussex, is a British internet radio station. Its output comprises two mainstream music radio streams, a talk radio stream, and several other genre-specific music streams.