Central and East Dorset including Bournemouth, Poole and most of Dorchester is served by South Today received from the Rowridge TV transmitter.

North of Dorset including Shaftesbury and all of Somerset is served by Points West that is receive from the Mendip TV transmitter.

The first ten-minute bulletin was read by Tom Salmon, who later became a producer and regional TV manager,[4] A small television studio was especially constructed within the BBC's Plymouth centre - with facilities built at a cost of £50,000.

After a number of pilots were produced under the title Six to Six Twenty, the new South West at Six programme launched on 17 September 1962, presented by Peter Crampton with Sheila Tracy deputising.

The Spotlight production team also contributed networked features and regional opt-outs to the BBC's Breakfast Time when it launched in January 1983.

[25] In 1988, a minimal service was established with a short two-minute bulletin following the BBC Nine O'Clock News on weeknights, broadcast from a self-op studio at the Frémont Point transmitter and presented by an on-duty newsreader from Radio Jersey.

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.