Local Media
- The BBC East region is based in Norwich, where the Look East regional programme is based. The BBC East region also includes Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire. ITV Anglia is also based in Norwich, which has the Anglia Tonight regional programme. The main television transmitter for the south east of Essex is based at Rouncefall Farm, in Ashingdon, just north of Rochford. The Rouncefall transmitter is a high powered Single Frequency Network digital transmitter the parent transmitter serving the Rouncefall transmitter is located at Sudbury, Suffolk and provides regional digital television from BBC 1 East and Anglia ITV 1, as well as other public service digital TV and HD digital TV services; a lower powered relay is also located at Burnham-on-crouch as well. Both of these TV transmitters came into full service on, July 20, 2011, the Rouncefall transmitter being 4 kiloWatts E.R.P. (Effective Radiated Power) is receivable over most of south east Essex, However, viewers in parts of Southend-on-sea/Westcliff-on-sea seafronts, Canvey Island and some other low lying parts of south Essex and south Hertfordshire are served better by the Crystal Palace, London and Bluebell Hill/Dover, Kent TV transmitters. BBC London News, London Tonight from Crystal Palace, or South East Today as well as the Meridian Tonight regional news programmes from Bluebell Hill. Sky and Freesat satellite viewers are also able to receive BBC East in their respective areas for their complete eastern counties news stories, Norfolk/Suffolk, and London-ITV/BBC London News for Canvey Island, Southend, South Essex & South Hertfordshire. Digital switchover took place at Sandy Heath (the east of the region) in April 2011, and Sudbury (Suffolk, north, central and parts of south east Essex) in July 2011; Tacolneston (for Norfolk) changes in November 2011.
- BBC radios Norfolk, Suffolk, Three Counties, Cambridgeshire and Essex. National radio comes from Tacolneston (the most powerful in the region) and Peterborough. There is also a main MW transmitter for 5 Live at Brookmans Park, between Hatfield and Potters Bar at the junction of the A1000/B158 at North Mymms.
- Commercial radio stations are now mostly operated by Global Radio Group's Heart FM brand throughout the region - Heart Cambridgeshire (formerly Q103 and Hereward Radio), Heart East Anglia (former SGR-FM and Radio Broadland), Heart Four Counties (former 96.9 Chiltern FM and 97.6 Chiltern FM), Heart Essex (former SGR Colchester, Essex Radio and Ten 17) and Heart Hertfordshire (former Mercury 96.6) . Other local commercial stations include Kiss 105-108, The Beach (Lowestoft), 99.9 Radio Norwich, North Norfolk Radio, KL.FM 96.7 (King's Lynn), Connect Radio 106.8 (Peterborough), Chelmsford Radio, Southend Radio, Town 102 (Ipswich)
- Local newspapers include the Bedfordshire on Sunday, Cambridge Evening News, East Anglian Daily Times, Eastern Daily Press, Evening Echo (south Essex), Evening Gazette (Essex), Evening Star (Ipswich), Peterborough Evening Telegraph, Norwich Evening News and the Times & Citizen.
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