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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.
"Birmingham, Alabama" by Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves "Birmingham Bertha" by Ethel Waters (1929) (from On with the Show!) "Birmingham Black Bottom" by Charlie Johnson (1927) "Birmingham Blues" by Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) (1921) "Birmingham Blues" by The Charlie Daniels Band (1997) "Birmingham Bounce" by Tommy Dorsey (1946)
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]
Birmingham's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. [1] By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and most vibrant in the country; a "seething cauldron of musical activity", [2] with over 500 bands constantly exchanging members and performing regularly across a well-developed network of venues and promoters. [3]
Bauer’s Birmingham newsroom broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 7am to 1pm at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside traffic bulletins. Separate bulletins are produced for the five licence areas.
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 ...
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
Hits Radio Birmingham is an Independent Local Radio station based in Birmingham, England, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to Birmingham and the West Midlands.