Mass media in Jersey
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Mass media in Jersey consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites.
Broadcasting
[edit]The Frémont Point transmitting station is a facility for FM and television transmission at Frémont in Saint John, Jersey.
Television
[edit]Local terrestrial television in Jersey is provided by ITV Channel Television (part of the ITV network) and BBC Channel Islands (an opt-out service from BBC South West), both of these have local broadcast studios, production teams, presenters and other staff. Many other off-island stations are available, which are mostly the same as those available in United Kingdom.
ITV Channel Television – the longer-serving of the two services – produces regional programming for the Islands, including a flagship nightly news programme, ITV News Channel TV, which is supplemented by shorter news bulletins seven days a week. Other programmes previously shown include a twice-weekly sports magazine show Report Sport, the long-running children's series Puffin's Pla(i)ce and local documentaries.
BBC Channel Islands News is an opt-out service for the Channel Islands, broadcast from the BBC Radio Jersey studios in St Helier at 6:30 pm (during the first half of Spotlight) and at 10:25 pm (after the BBC News at Ten) each weeknight on BBC One.
Jersey is depicted in the detective programme Bergerac.
Radio
[edit]Local radio in Jersey is broadcast on FM by BBC Radio Jersey, and Channel 103. Both also on Channel Island DAB mux since 1 August 2021
Bailiwick Radio broadcasts two music services, Classics and Hits, 24 hours a day online. It is also available on DAB+ Channel Island mux. and through Apple and Android apps and on TuneIn.
Radio Youth FM, an internet radio station run by young people aged 12 – 24 is also active in the island and broadcasts up to 10 shows each week.
Jersey used to be served by the Normandy-based radio station Contact 94.
Internet
[edit]The Bailiwick Express is Jersey's solitary online news website which concentrates on hard news delivered swiftly, and is supported by classified advertising, primarily of vehicles, employment vacancies, and property.
Newspapers
[edit]The Jersey Evening Post, is the main printed source of local news and official notices. Its daily average net circulation was reported as 17,912 copies in 2012.[1]
The newspaper features a weekly Jèrriais column accompanied by English-language précis.
Magazines
[edit]Lifestyle magazines include Gallery Magazine[2] (monthly) and The Jersey Life[3] (monthly).
Les Nouvelles Chroniques du Don Balleine[4] is a quarterly literary magazine in Jèrriais.
20/20 magazine[5] is the island's only annual personal finance magazine; Global Assets[6] the island's online quarterly international offshore finance magazine is also produced by the same company.
Connect magazine is a bi-monthly business title from the same stable as The Bailiwick Express.
References
[edit]- ^ "Circulation down for all of UK's 81 regional dailies". PressGazette. 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ "Gallery | Franchises". Gallerymagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ "thejerseylife.co.uk – The Jersey Life". Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Les Nouvelles Chroniques du Don Balleine". Members.societe-jersiaise.org. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ Digital, iPOP (18 December 2020). "Annual magazines posted to the top 10,000 homes in Jersey". 20/20. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Finance Publications Offshore Limited". Financeoffshore.com. Retrieved 7 October 2012.