Media in London

London is a major international communications centre with a virtually unrivalled number of media outlets.

Partly to counter complaints about London bias, the BBC announced in June 2004 that some departments are to be relocated to Manchester.

The move was resisted strongly by the printing trade union SOGAT 82, and strike action at Wapping in 1986 led to violent skirmishes.

The independent weekly listings guide Time Out Magazine has been providing concert, film, theatre and arts information since 1968.

There are a vast number of local newspapers in the London area, often covering a small section of the city as well as two free magazines, Sport and Shortlist London is at the centre of British film and television production industries, with major studio facilities on the western fringes of the conurbation and a large post-production industry centred in Soho (see Soho media and post-production community).