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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. As of September 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 217,000 listeners according to RAJAR. [1]
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. National bulletins from Sky News Radio are carried at other times.
The Mailbox, home to BBC Radio WM's studios in Birmingham. The station launched as BBC Radio Birmingham on 9 November 1970 and on 23 November 1981, the station changed its name to BBC WM to reflect that the station broadcasts to a wider area than just Birmingham. [2] This date also saw the station launch a second MW transmitter to improve MW ...
BBC Midlands is the oldest of the BBC English Regions, having been formed (as the Midland Region) in 1927, when the new Borough Hill high-powered radio transmitter at Daventry became the first to replace the earlier lower-powered city-based radio stations, such as Birmingham's 5IT, and make regional and national broadcasting a technical ...
Spoken-word programming, including news and documentaries BBC FM 92.5–96.1 FM 103.5–104.9 LW 198 12B 704 704 0104 904 BBC Radio 4 Extra: Archival programming, including comedy and drama BBC 12B 708 708 0126 910 BBC Radio 5 Live: Live news, sport and discussion BBC MW 693 MW 909 MW 990 12B 705 705 0105 905 BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
On 17 August 2023, it was announced that the UK's media regulator, Ofcom, had given Big City Radio approval to rebrand as BRMB. The station, which would relaunch on 4 September 2023 at 11.52am, was to broadcast on Big City Radio's 89.1FM frequency, as well as on DAB in Birmingham, while Big City Radio continued as an online station.
BRMB was the fourth independent local commercial radio station to begin broadcasting in Britain, [4] after LBC, Capital Radio and Radio Clyde. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Broadcasting a mix of popular music with local news, live football coverage, information and specialist output, [ 2 ] the station became popular amongst residents in Birmingham and ...
On 10 January 2024, station owners Bauer announced Free Radio would be rebranded as Hits Radio Coventry and Warwickshire from April 17th 2024, as part of a network-wide relaunch involving 17 local radio stations in England and Wales. [12] [13] The station's local news and regional output was not be affected as a result of the relaunch.