Newspapers
The South Wales Evening Post is Wales’ best selling daily paper and alongside regional weekly publications the Llanelli Star (Thursdays) and Carmarthen Journal (Wednesday) carries everything you need to know about what’s going on in and around Swansea Bay. In the 'Evening Post' (as it's known locally) you’ll find weekly property, lettings and jobs pages as well as a monthly Business Post supplement. The Evening Post is published by South West Wales Media (SWWM) Ltd part of the Northcliffe Newspaper Group, the 3rd largest newspaper group in the UK.
Based in Swansea, as well as its vital role of bring news to communities, SWWM is also regarded as a key marketing and advertising tool for businesses in the area.
To keep bang up to date with all of Swansea Bay’s news, visit the Evening Post’s online site here:
www.thisisswansea.co.uk
The Western Mail is Wales’ national newspaper – published daily it also carries supplements of all kinds, including jobs, business and lifestyle. For an online version check out
www.walesonline.co.uk
Radio
The Wave & Swansea Sound
The Wave and Swansea Sound are seen by many as the stations for South West Wales. 300,000 listeners each month can’t be wrong! Having been broadcasting in the area for over 3 decades both The Wave and Swansea Sound don’t just play great music! They are heavily involved with the local community, creating great outdoor events such as ‘Party in the Park’ and raising in excess of £500,000, all of which stays in the local area to help disadvantaged children, through Cash for Kids.
So to stay in touch with all that’s going on in the area and listen to a great mix of the best songs from the 60's right up to current chart hits, tune in to either 96.4FM The Wave or 1170 Medium Wave and DAB. Or listen live online at
www.thewave.co.uk
www.swanseasound.co.uk
Other radio stations in the area include:
Swansea Bay Radio www.swanseabayradio.com
Real Radio www.realradiofm.com
Scarlet FM www.scarletfm.com
Radio Carmarthenshire www.radiocarmarthenshire.com
BBC Radio Wales www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales
BBC Radio Cymru www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/radiocymru
Magazines & other Publications
For a glossy round up of news, events, lifestyle and entertainment from around Swansea Bay, grab yourself a copy of Swansea Life Magazine, www.swansealife.co.uk published monthly and available to buy locally. Sister glossy lifestyle magazines, Carmarthenshire Living and Llanelli Life are published every other month.
For news and events from Swansea Bay’s dynamic business community, look out for the Swansea Bay Business Life and Carmarthenshire Business Life publications, which are distributed free to businesses throughout the Swansea Bay area. For further info on these please contact the Swansea Life team at the web site above.
For a more pan-Wales view on business, check out Wales Business Insider. An independent monthly business magazine, this publication takes an in-depth look at all aspects of the business world as well as covering news from the whole of the Welsh economy. www.insidermedia.com/productsandservices/archive/wbi/index.html
TV
Regional news, sport and weather are broadcast by several of the main TV networks in Wales:
BBC Wales provides Welsh news, sport and weather after the national UK news programmes, as well as some other specific Wales-only content on BBC 1 Wales.
The BBC Wales website www.bbc.co.uk/wales covers all things Welsh but there are even separate regional pages covering the Swansea Bay area! So for news, sport and weather for Swansea Bay from BBC Wales visit www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest
There is also a Wales regional News programme from ITV Wales which again follows their national UK news programmes www.itvlocal.com/wales
S4C broadcasts news and a wide range of TV programmes in the Welsh language, many of which - such as Wedi 3 and Wedi 7 - are filmed in Swansea Bay at Tinopolis in Llanelli! www.s4c.co.uk
