Media
Main article: Media in Cardiff See also: Media in WalesCardiff is the Welsh base for the national television broadcasters (BBC, ITV1 Wales and S4C). Capital TV, a locally-based free-to-air analogue terrestrial television station operating on a Restricted Service Licence, served the city between 2002 and 2009.
Several contemporary television programmes and films are filmed in and/or set in Cardiff, such as Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin, Casualty and Upstairs Downstairs.
The main local newspaper, the South Wales Echo and the national paper the Western Mail are based in Park Street in the city centre. Capital Times, Echo Extra and the South Wales edition of Metro are also based and distributed in the city. There are also a number of magazines based in the city including Buzz magazine, Primary Times and a monthly Welsh language paper called Y Dinesydd (The Citizen).
A number of other radio stations serve the city and are based in Cardiff, including Capital FM South Wales, Real Radio, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, Radio Cardiff, Gold and Xpress Radio. Xfm started broadcasting from Cardiff on 29 November 2007, making the South Wales region its fourth dedicated area. Transmissions have now been replaced by Nation Radio which is based in Culverhouse Cross in the west of the city.
Google Street View is available throughout Cardiff. The introduction of this was controversial at the time, but an online poll has since voted the Millennium Stadium to be one of six locations in the UK to be specially photographed and made available on Google Street View as a 360-degree virtual tour.
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