- BBC South East
Infobox BBC Nation or Region
name = BBC South East
headquarters = Tunbridge Wells
area =Kent ,East Sussex
nation =BBC English Regions
regions =
tvstations =
tvtransmitters = Bluebell Hill
Dover
Heathfield
radiostations =BBC Radio Kent BBC Southern Counties Radio
radiotransmitters =
keypeople = Mike Hapgood
(Head of Regional
& Local Programmes)
launched =
closeddate =
replaced =
replacedby =
website =BBC South East is the BBC English Region producing local
television ,radio , web andteletext content forKent andEast Sussex . It is easily the smallest of the BBC regions, although covering a population of over 2.5m. It was created in September 2001 by the joining of the Heathfield transmitter (formerly part of the BBC South region), with the Bluebell Hill and Dover transmitters from the former BBC London and South East region. Unlike ITV Meridian, it does not provide a local news service for South Essex (received from a Bluebell Hill overlap), this area being part of the BBC London region instead.Its television service transmitted onBBC One includes the daily "South East Today " news programme, the weekly regional magazine programme "Inside Out" and the weekly "Politics Show ".The region is the controlling centre for
BBC Radio Kent andBBC Southern Counties Radio , as well as producing the local editions of the BBC's "Where I Live" websites and the regional news pages onCeefax .The regional headquarters and television centre is in Tunbridge Wells.
External links
*bbc.co.uk|id=whereilive|title=Where I Live
*bbc.co.uk|id=southeasttoday|title=BBC "South East Today"
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