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| presenter = }} | weather_presenter = | channel = BBC One South West | location = BBC Broadcasting House Plymouth, Devon | first_aired = 1961〔As ''South West at Six''.〕 | last_aired = present | producer = BBC South West | related = }} ''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. ==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 ''Spotlight'' was adopted on 30 September 1963. Those early radio broadcasts had been made from the Athenaeum Chambers in Athenaeum Lane in Plymouth (ironically, next to what would become Westward and 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 ''Spotlight'' to colour the following year.〔 A replacement purpose-built broadcasting centre on the opposite side of Sutton Harbour from the Barbican has been under construction since 2008 and was due to open in mid-2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC's new Plymouth headquarters will be approved )〕 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.〔(Inquiries over site earmarked for BBC, This is Plymouth )〕 In 2013, the BBC confirmed it would not be moving to Sutton Harbour, but would instead be refurbishing its existing Plymouth headquarters.〔("BBC South West announces major investment in Plymouth Seymour Road base", BBC Media Centre )〕 A lighthouse motif has been in use within the programme's title sequences for many years until May 2000, when 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spotlight (BBC News)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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