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==Leisure and media==
Sport and recreation facilities include the White Horse Leisure and [[Tennis]] Centre, [[Tilsley Park]] and the Southern Town Park. Abingdon had four [[movie theatre|cinema]]s but all have closed.{{sfn|Meyrick|2007|pp=29–35}} The last was the Regal, which closed in 1989. It stood derelict for
The local newspapers are ''[[The Oxford Times]]'', ''[[Oxford Mail]]'' and ''Abingdon Herald''. The ''[[Oxfordshire Guardian]]'', a [[free newspaper]], was based in Abingdon for many years and was founded as the ''[[South Oxfordshire Courier]]'' until its closure in 2018. Local radio and television stations are shared with [[Oxford]], although [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] retains a news gathering centre in nearby [[Milton Park]] (formerly having a broadcasting studio in the town) for [[ITV Meridian]]. Historically the ITV franchise was [[ITV Central]]. Local analogue radio is provided by [[BBC Radio Oxford]], [[Jack FM]], [[Jack 3]] and [[Heart South]] (historically 'Fox FM' and later 'Heart Thames Valley'), while the town is also covered by the [[Oxford transmitting station#Digital Radio|Oxfordshire DAB multiplex]]. There was a [[Six TV]] local TV channel until 2009 and the town's further education college was the home to [[That's TV]] studios for [[Oxfordshire]] until it relocated to [[Oxford Science Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thats.tv/oxford/index.php?route=information/contact |title=That's TV - Contact Us |access-date=25 September 2017 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041506/http://www.thats.tv/oxford/index.php?route=information/contact |url-status=live }}</ref>
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