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Black Country Radio began life as two separate stations. 102.5 The 'Bridge started broadcasting on FM from studios in Stourbridge on 1 January 2008, targeting a 25 - 55 year old audience with an emphasis on local news, sport, events and good causes. In 2015, they merged with Black Country Community Radio, an online station operating nearby, to ...
BBC Radio WM is the BBC's local radio station serving the West Midlands. It broadcasts on FM , DAB , digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at The Mailbox in Birmingham . According to RAJAR , the station has a weekly audience of 193,000 listeners and a 2.2% share as of December 2023.
When Local Television Limited took over (as Made in...), Birmingham TV was required to broadcast 35 hours a week of first-run local programming. [20] [21] As of February 2018, the station's sole local programme was a rolling four-hour block of pre-recorded local news, sport and features airing each weeknight from 5-9pm.
A more radical move in this direction took place in 2006 when the West Midlands Region piloted the BBC's Local TV initiative, with television news programmes produced for six local areas, all much smaller than the traditional TV regions, and in the case of Birmingham and the Black Country, even smaller than those covered by local radio stations.
BBC Radio 1Xtra: Black music, hip hop, R&B and dancehall. No BBC Radio 1 Dance: Classic, current and future electronic dance music, with mixes and archives. No BBC Radio 2: Adult-orientated music, country, jazz, soul and funk. Yes Yes BBC Radio 3: Classical music, jazz, world music, arts, culture and drama. BBC Radio 4
Hits Radio Black Country & Shropshire is an Independent Local Radio station based in Birmingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Shropshire, Kings Norton, Wolverhampton and the Black Country. As of September 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 90,000 listeners according to RAJAR. [1]
(as BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent) Northern and mid-Staffordshire Southern Cheshire: Stoke-on-Trent — 94.6 104.1 12D 726 MW 1503 kHz (1974 - 23 May 2021 [11]) BBC Radio WM 9 November 1970 (as BBC Radio Birmingham) Birmingham The Black Country Solihull Southern Staffordshire: Birmingham — 95.6 11B 11C 722 MW 828 kHz (1981 - 1996) [note 3]
BBC Birmingham is one of the oldest regional arms of the BBC, located in Birmingham. It was the first region outside London to start broadcasting both the corporation's radio (in 1922) and television (in 1949) transmissions, the latter from the Sutton Coldfield television transmitter .