Editing BBC Radio Devon (section)

==History==
Until 1983, local radio services for [[Devon]] had amounted to a regional weekday breakfast show ''[[Morning Sou'West]]'', aired on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s frequencies in Devon and [[Cornwall]], plus five-minute regional bulletins on Saturday mornings and Mondays to Saturdays at lunchtime and teatime. There was no regional output of any kind on Sundays. The regional programming ended on 31 December 1982.

BBC Radio Devon started broadcasting on 17 January 1983, replacing the [[BBC Radio 4]] regional breakfast show ''[[Morning Sou'West]]''. On the same day, [[BBC Radio Cornwall]] started broadcasting, with whom it shared early afternoon programming, and the BBC began launched the UK's first regular breakfast television programme ''[[Breakfast Time (British TV programme)|Breakfast Time]]''.

When broadcasting started, the new studios in [[Exeter]] had not yet been finished, so BBC Radio Devon was broadcast from [[portacabin|portable cabins]] for the first few weeks. The Exeter studios were officially opened by [[Alastair Milne]], then [[Director-General of the BBC]], on 30 September 1983.<ref name=history>{{cite news|title=BBC Radio Devon celebrates 25 years|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2005/09/29/station_history_radio_devon_feature.shtml|access-date=16 August 2016|publisher=BBC News|date=29 September 2005|language=en-gb}}</ref>

The then new Exeter studio centre at Walnut Gardens on St Davids Hill had the latest in BBC broadcasting technology. The studios were made up of Mark III desks, which were built in-house by BBC engineers and first designed in the 1970s.
The studio complex in Exeter consisted of the traditional BBC Local Radio Mark III set up, which saw three studios in a row - two broadcast ‘cubicles’ as they were known, either side of a centre talk-show style studio, which was home to the news programmes Good Morning Devon and Good Evening Devon. The desks were in use from 1983 until August 2015, when the original Exeter studios were closed and relocated to smaller premises on the outskirts of the city at Pynes Hill.
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Since 2021, the Exeter studio and office is now located within the Exeter College building on Queen Street.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-07-01 |title=BBC to Open Studio at Exeter College |url=https://exe-coll.ac.uk/bbc-to-open-studio-at-exeter-college/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=Exeter College |language=en}}</ref>

BBC Radio Devon has reporters based in Exeter, [[Plymouth]], [[Paignton]] and [[Barnstaple]] and the Plymouth newsroom is shared with the BBC's regional TV news programme ''[[BBC Spotlight (South West)|Spotlight]]''. The station has won several [[Sony Awards]] for its programming.<ref name=history/>