Spotlight (BBC News)
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Spotlight is the BBC's regional TV news programme for the South West of England, covering Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, southern and western Somerset, western Dorset and the Channel Islands. There is also a special version of the programme for viewers in the Channel Islands. The main version of the programme broadcasts between 18:30 and 19:00 on weekdays, with shorter bulletins at other times. The programme can be viewed anywhere in the UK (and Europe) on Sky channel 967/968 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. Its main competitors are ITV West Country's main evening programme ITV News West Country in Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, southern and western Somerset and western Dorset and ITV Channel Television's main evening programme ITV News Channel TV in the Channel Islands.
Spotlight is broadcast from BBC Broadcasting House in Seymour Road, Plymouth – this is the main headquarters for all BBC South West programming, on TV, radio and online. There are also smaller studios in Barnstaple, Exeter, Paignton, Taunton and Truro.
BBC Channel Islands is the dedicated opt-out service for the Channel Islands.
Local news for the Islands had existed since the 1990s when a short bulletin aired following the BBC Nine O'Clock News. Since 16 October 2000, two evening bulletins have been broadcast at 6:30pm and following the BBC News at Ten – until April 2008, these bulletin had been known as Spotlight Channel Islands. Originally broadcast from a studio at the Fremont Point transmitter, the news service is now entirely based at the studios of BBC Radio Jersey in St Helier.
The opt-outs are presented by either Clare Burton or Edward Sault and produced by a team of multi-skilling journalists who write, film and edit their own stories, as well as producing and directing the three bulletins for the islands on weekdays. The main opt takes up the first twelve minutes of the nightly 6.30pm programme with a full opt at 10.25pm and a short 30-second update at 8pm. No opt-outs are broadcast during the day and at weekends, except for special occasions such as local elections or major sporting events such as the Island Games.
Like other BBC enterprises in the Channel Islands, funding comes primarily from television licence fees collected within the Channel Islands themselves.Categories: Local News, Television Broadcast/Programme.
