Yorkshire and The Humber - Local Media

Local Media

  • Local BBC Television comes from BBC Look North in Leeds and BBC Look North in Hull. ITV1 Yorkshire is on Kirkstall Road to the west of Leeds city centre, which broadcasts Calendar and some national programming. Digital switchover takes place in late August for most of the region, with Emley Moor (the main TV transmitter for West and South Yorkshire) converting to digital in mid-September 2011. Emley Moor is the tallest free-standing structure in the UK, and the 25th tallest in the world, and was designed by Ove Arup. The original tower famously collapsed in March 1969. Bilsdale, the region's other main TV transmitter which covers North Yorkshire and transmits BBC North East and Cumbria and Tyne Tees Television, will change in 2012.
  • BBC Radios Humberside, Leeds, Sheffield and York.
  • Local commercial stations include Dearne FM (Barnsley), The Pulse of West Yorkshire (Bradford), Trax FM (Doncaster), Compass FM (Grimsby), 97.2 Stray FM (Harrogate), Home 107.9 (Huddersfield), 96.9 Viking FM (Hull), Rother FM, 96.3 Radio Aire (Leeds), Yorkshire Coast Radio (Scarborough), Hallam FM (Sheffield), Fresh Radio (Skipton), Real Radio (Tingley), Ridings FM (Wakefield), 105 Capital FM Yorkshire (former Galaxy Yorkshire) and Minster FM (York).
  • National radio is broadcast from Belmont in the south-east, Bilsdale for North Yorkshire, and Holme Moss for South and West Yorkshire. Moorside Edge east of Scammonden Water near the M62 is a main 5 Live transmitter on 909MW.
  • Local newspapers are the Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Evening Courier, Grimsby Telegraph, Huddersfield Examiner, Hull Daily Mail, Scarborough Evening News, Scunthorpe Telegraph, Sheffield Star, The Press (York), Wakefield Express, Yorkshire Evening Post and Yorkshire Post.
  • Yorkshire and Humberside are very supportive in their approach to theatre and performance festivals and hold regional championships for young performers every 2 years. The championship is sectioned in Dance, Music and Speech & Drama. The most recent championship was held on Saturday 8 September, at St Margaret's Church Hall, Horsforth in Leeds. 16 year-old Nuthana Prathivadi, of Halifax, took the Dance Champion title; Helen Wilson, of Harrogate, titled Music Champion and with 17-year old Lee Peart, of Cleethorpes, winning the Speech & Drama championship.

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