Network Six West

Network Six West, broadcasting as sweynWest was a temporary franchisee operating the West of England franchise as between 1 March and 27 May 2010, owned by Network Six Broadcasting Ltd, itself a subsidiary of Network Six control in Manchester. The service was created due to no successful bidders being named for the West franchise.

It assumed all ownership of the West franchise following the expiration of Carte Regal Media-owned sweynWest's contract at midnight on 1 March 2010. The broadcaster did not made any changes to the service, and had taken on all previous sweynWest staff. It continued to operate under the previous contractor's name under agreement, and was eventually replaced by Echo following a second re-tender of the licence.

On 8 March, its PR department, formally integrated with Carte, was temporarily taken over by Glyndwr TV, whilst its technical playout systems were taken on by Western and Neptune jointly. Network Six West continues to produce local programmes produced by sweynWest, under its own endcap. Visually, the sweynWest logo is still used on idents, but has been removed from captions and teletext services. Audio references are made to simply "Network Six" or "in the West". Its regional magazine programme was re-named to West Live.

It ceased broadcasting at 23.59 on Thursday 27 May 2010, and was immediately replaced by Echo, who took on the entire NSW asset and its workforce.