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((For|the [[BBC Northern Ireland]]'s weekly [[Current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] programme|Spotlight (BBC Northern Ireland TV programme)))
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| image                = BBC Spotlight titles.jpg
| caption              = Title card used since April 2022
| producer             = [[BBC News]]<br>
[[BBC South West]]
| location             = BBC Broadcasting House<br />Plymouth, Devon
| camera               = [[Multi-camera]]
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| first_aired          = ((Start date|1961|04|20|df=yes))<ref>As ''South West at Six''.</ref>
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| channel              = [[BBC One]] [[BBC South West|South West]]<br>
[[BBC One]] Channel Islands
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'''''BBC 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. It launched on 20 April 1961. 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 (UK and Ireland)|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.

''BBC Spotlight'' broadcasts from the BBC Broadcasting House in Seymour Road, [[Plymouth]], the headquarters of [[BBC South West]]. There are smaller studios in [[Exeter]] and [[Truro]].

==History==
Although local radio had been broadcast from Plymouth as station 2PY between 1924 and 1934, the first regional television programme was not broadcast until 20 April 1961, just nine days before the rival ITV service from [[Westward Television]] began broadcasting. At first a ten-minute bulletin called ''News from the South West'' was read by Tom Salmon, but in under a year it had doubled in length and had been renamed as ''South West at Six'', hosted by [[Sheila Tracy]]. The name ''BBC Spotlight'' was adopted on 30 September 1963.<ref>((cite web
 |url         = http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbc_southwest/news.html
 |title       = BBC South West – News
 |publisher   = TVARK
 |access-date  = 31 August 2010
 |last        = Luxton
 |first       = Simon
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120304033935/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbc_southwest/news.html
 |archive-date = 4 March 2012
 |df          = dmy-all
))</ref><ref name=DA>((cite journal
| author=Leigh, Justin
| title=The History of the BBC in Devon and Local Broadcasting as Part of the BBC's Worldwide Role
| journal=Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association
| year=2007
| volume=139
| pages=3–5
| issn=0309-7994))</ref>

Those early radio broadcasts had been made from the Athenaeum Chambers in Athenaeum Lane in Plymouth (next to what became [[Westward Television|Westward]] and [[Television South West|TSW]]'s headquarters), but just before the Second World War the BBC started looking for alternative premises. A Victorian villa named ''Ingledene'' in Seymour Road was bought from the Douglass family and this building has, as of 2012, remained the BBC's headquarters in the South West. It has been considerably extended over the years, including the addition of a new and larger television studio in 1974 in preparation for the conversion of ''BBC Spotlight'' to colour the following year.<ref name=DA /> A replacement purpose-built broadcasting centre on the opposite side of Sutton Harbour from [[Barbican, Plymouth|the Barbican]] has been under construction since 2008 and was due to open in mid-2011,<ref>((cite web
|url=http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/BBC-s-new-Plymouth-headquarters-approved/article-619647-detail/article.html
|title=BBC's new Plymouth headquarters will be approved
|publisher=this is Plymouth
|accessdate=31 August 2010))</ref> though it has since stalled due to the effect of the recession on the construction industry and a change in the original plans. In late 2012, the owner of the harbour expressed fears the move may never happen and admitted other parties had expressed an interest in moving to the site earmarked for the BBC.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130505070857/http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Inquiries-site-earmarked-BBC/story-17433822-detail/story.html '''Inquiries over site earmarked for BBC''', This is Plymouth]</ref> In 2013, the BBC confirmed that it was not moving to Sutton Harbour, and instead was refurbishing its existing Plymouth headquarters.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/seymour-road.html "BBC South West announces major investment in Plymouth Seymour Road base", BBC Media Centre]</ref>

A lighthouse motif has been in use within the programme's title sequences for many years until May 2000, when BBC Spotlight adopted the generic BBC regional news design. The motif returned in May 2006, and the use of a lighthouse in the titles continued until the latest relaunch in June 2015.

==Presenters==

Victoria Graham presents the 6.30pm programme. Another longstanding presenter is Natalie Cornah, who also presents the main programme. 
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===News===
* Victoria Graham<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/JTpBgkJVv7z3FWVWM7473l/victoria-graham|title=BBC One - Spotlight - Victoria Graham|publisher=BBC|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
* [[Natalie Cornah]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4HHhyXl2Z9ZxyrtC25P5c1y/natalie-cornah|title=BBC One - Spotlight - Natalie Cornah|publisher=BBC|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>

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Channel Islands- Alison Moss

===Weather===
* David Braine<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/44BNqBXQlW5W4bc8fLmKh16/david-braine|title=BBC One - Spotlight - David Braine|publisher=BBC|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
* Emily Wood<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4y8MWvRkBzFZn7HnP72fMVh/emily-wood|title=BBC One - Spotlight - Emily Wood|publisher=BBC|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
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==Former on-air team members==
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* Kally Adderkin-Hall<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/local-news/kally-adderkin-hall-looks-back-drink-drive-case-changed-law|title=Kally Adderkin-Hall looks back at the drink drive case that changed the law|date=15 December 2018|publisher=Exeter Daily|accessdate=24 May 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423200346/https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/local-news/kally-adderkin-hall-looks-back-drink-drive-case-changed-law|archivedate=23 April 2019))</ref>
* [[Fern Britton]]<ref name="TVRA"/>
* [[Jill Dando]] (deceased)<ref name="TVRA"/>
* Chris Denham<ref name="TVRA"/>
* Teresa Driscoll<ref name="TVRA"/><ref name="TWWW"/>
* [[Simon Hall (writer)|Simon Hall]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/tutor/simon-hall|title=Simon Hall|work=Institute of Continuing Education|date=16 May 2018|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
* [[Will Hanrahan]]
* Sue King<ref name="TVRA"/><ref name="TWWW"/>
* Russell Labey<ref name="TWWW">((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/england/spotlight/way_we_were.shtml|title=The Way We Were|date=24 September 2014|work=Spotlight (archived)|publisher=BBC|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
* Justin Leigh <ref>((cite web|url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/spotlight-presenter-justin-leigh-leaving-4599441|title=Spotlight presenter Justin Leigh is leaving the BBC after 33 years|date=12 October 2020|publisher=Plymouth Live|accessdate=12 October 2020))</ref>
* [[Sue Lawley]]<ref name="TVRA"/>
* Hamish Marshall <ref>((cite web|url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/another-spotlight-presenter-go-hamish-4633889|title=Another Spotlight presenter to go as Hamish Marshall announces departure from BBC
|date=23 October 2020
|publisher=Plymouth Live|accessdate=23 October 2020))</ref>
* Gillian Miles<ref name="TVRA"/>
* [[Juliet Morris]]<ref name="TVRA"/>
* Kawser Quamer (weather presenter)<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.marathi.tv/anchor/kawser-quamer/|title=Kawser Quamer|publisher=Marathi.tv|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
* Craig Rich (weather presenter)<ref name="TVRA">((cite web|url=https://thetvroom.com/ark/presenters/channel-79.html|title=BBC South West Presenters|work=the tv room (archived)|accessdate=24 May 2019))</ref>
* [[Angela Rippon]]<ref name="TVRA"/>
* [[Hugh Scully]] (deceased)<ref name="TVRA"/><ref name="TWWW"/>
* [[Sheila Tracy]] (deceased)<ref name="TVRA"/><ref name="TWWW"/>
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==BBC Channel Islands==
''BBC Channel Islands'' is the dedicated [[Regional variation|opt-out service]] for the [[Channel Islands]].

Local news broadcasts for the Islands began in the 1990s, when a short bulletin aired following the ''[[BBC Nine O'Clock News]]''. Since October 2000, two evening bulletins have been broadcast at 6:30pm and 10:30pm. Originally broadcast from a studio at the [[Frémont Point transmitting station|Fremont Point transmitter]], the news service is now entirely based at the studios of [[BBC Radio Jersey]] in St Helier.

The opt-outs are usually presented by Charlie McArdle and produced by a team of multi-skilling journalists who write, film and edit their own stories, as well as producing and directing the bulletins on weekdays. The main opt takes up the first 12 minutes of the nightly 6:30pm programme with a full opt at 10:30pm. 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 licensing in the United Kingdom|television licence]] fees collected within the Islands.<ref>((cite web|title=TV licences |publisher=Guernsey Post |url=http://www.guernseypost.com/retail-services/tv-licences/ |access-date=2 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512075128/http://www.guernseypost.com/retail-services/tv-licences/ |archive-date=12 May 2008 ))</ref><ref>((cite web
| title = T.V. Licences
| publisher = Jersey Citizens Advice Bureau
| date = 13 March 2009
| url = http://www.cab.org.je/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=9
| accessdate = 2 July 2009
))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* ((BBC Online|id=spotlight|title=''BBC Spotlight''))
* ((BBC Online|id=b00cpbsj|title=''BBC Channel Islands''))

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