Radio stations in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire includes Sheffield and surrounding towns with different local audiences. A service directed to the south of Yorkshire can cover more than any one city while remaining narrower than a programme for Yorkshire as a whole. A combined South and West Yorkshire edition has a real connection to this area without belonging only to South Yorkshire. The name of the programme should guide the category, rather than treating every station available in Sheffield as an edition created for the entire subregion. Music and speech services can take different approaches to the same audience. A current-hits format has a different purpose from a familiar-song selection, and neither follows automatically from the South Yorkshire label. Regional network programmes may contain shared shows, but an edition with this audience still has a useful geographic identity. West Yorkshire deserves its own category when a programme explicitly covers both areas. Recording the overlap as two genuine audience connections is more precise than inventing a single county for a cross-area edition or describing it as entirely national.