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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.
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 ...
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 Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news service for the West Midlands. It was launched in 1964 and is presented by Nicola Beckford, Joanne Malin, Mary Rhodes , Nick Owen , Elizabeth Glinka, Rebecca Wood and Shefali Oza .
BBC Birmingham is not to be confused with BBC Midlands, which is also based at the Mailbox. While BBC Birmingham is the name of the Network Productions Centre in Birmingham making network programmes for television and radio, BBC Midlands is the regional operation providing news, current affairs and other regional programmes.
Brief news updates air each weekday at around 06:25, 07:25, 08:25, and 09:05 during BBC Breakfast. A 15-minute lunchtime bulletin airs each weekday, between 13:30 and 13:45, following the BBC News at One. A 30-minute main edition of East Midlands Today airs each weekday, between 18:30 and 19:00, following the BBC News at Six.
(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 4]