Local Media
Local media include:
- Regional television is provided by the BBC North East and Cumbria, which broadcasts the regional evening Look North programme from Spital Tongues in Newcastle. Its commercial rival, ITV Tyne Tees, broadcasts the evening programme North East Tonight from Gateshead.
- BBC Radios Newcastle and Tees. National radio comes from Bilsdale on the North York Moors for Teesside, Pontop Pike in County Durham for Tyne and Wear, and Chatton near Wooler for Northumberland. These transmitters are also the main television transmitters.
- Commercial radio stations such as Metro (Newcastle), Real (Gateshead), Capital (formerly Galaxy FM in Wallsend), Real Radio XS, TFM (Thornaby-on-Tees), Sun FM (Sunderland), and Star Radio (Darlington). Digital radio comes from the Bauer Tyne & Wear and Bauer Teesside multiplexes.
- Community radio stations such as NE1fm (Newcastle), Radio Teesdale (Teesdale, County Durham), and Spark FM (Sunderland).
- Local regional newspapers the Evening Chronicle (Newcastle) , Sunderland Echo (Sunderland), The Journal (Newcastle), Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough), Shields Gazette (South Shields), Hartlepool Mail, The Northern Echo (Darlington) and the Darlington and Stockton Times.
- Great North News Services, a New media company in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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