Manchester TV, Radio and Newspapers

Across Greater Manchester there is a wide choice of radio stations and a variety of local newspapers. The main newspaper in Manchester is the Manchester Evening News.

Manchester TV

Channel M is Greater Manchester’s only TV station devoted to Manchester. However, the BBC does include a very limited number of local interest programmes in its schedules as well as a daily news programme for the North West of England.

Manchester Radio

New radio stations are emerging all the time while others stop broadcasting or change their broadcasting frequency. The following details are reasonably up to date. BBC Radio Manchester (95.1 & 104.6 FM) has high quality programming with a local flavour. Other stations based in the Greater Manchester area have a rock/pop/discussion format and include, Smooth FM (100.4 FM), Picadilly Magic (1152 MW), Key 103 (103 FM), XFM Manchester (97.7 FM), Galaxy 102 (102 FM), Wigan based WISH FM (102.4 FM), (Bolton and Bury) Tower FM (107.4) and Revolution (96.2 FM)

Manchester Newspapers

The largest circulation daily (6 days, not Sundays) in Greater Manchester is the Manchester Evening News. A variety of smaller circulation dailies and weeklies are available in different parts of Greater Manchester. These include:-

Bolton newspapers

Bolton News

Bury newspapers

Bury Times, Radcliffe Times

Rochdale newspapers

Rochdale Observer, Heywood Advertiser, Middleton Guardian

Manchester newspapers

Manchester Evening News, North East Manchester Advertiser, Prestwich Advertiser, South Manchester Reporter, The South Manchester Reporter

Oldham newspapers

Oldham Advertiser, Oldham Chronicle

Salford newspapers

Salford Advertiser

Stockport newspapers

Stockport Express, Wilmslow Express

Trafford newspapers

Stretford and Urmston Messenger, Trafford Messenger, Urmston Messenger

Tameside newspapers

Tameside Advertiser

Wigan newspapers

Wigan Evening Post, Wigan Observer, Wigan Reporter

In addition, the Asian News provides new to the Asian communities in Greater Manchester.