BBC West Midlands's area within the UK |
|
TV transmitters |
Ridge Hill Sutton Coldfield The Wrekin |
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Radio stations |
BBC WM BBC Coventry and Warwickshire BBC Hereford and Worcester BBC Radio Shropshire BBC Radio Stoke |
Headquarters | The Mailbox, Birmingham |
Area |
Herefordshire parts of northern Gloucestershire, and in the South East northern and western Oxfordshire) |
Nation | BBC English Regions |
Regions | West Midlands |
Key people
|
Cath Hearne (Head of Regional & Local Programmes) |
Launch date
|
1927 |
Herefordshire
Shropshire
Staffordshire
Warwickshire
West Midlands
Worcestershire.
BBC Midlands is the BBC English Region producing local television, radio, web and teletext content for Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, and Worcestershire. Although the region has been unofficially called BBC West Midlands since BBC East Midlands became a separate region in 1991, it retains the BBC Midlands name and brand, with its history dating from 1927, for public use.
The BBC Midlands region carries a number of regional programmes today. The regular schedule consists of the flagship Midlands Today news programme, regional news bulletins, the weekly regional magazine programme Inside Out and a twenty-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics. A weekly football magazine programme, Late Kick Off, is produced for BBC Midlands and BBC East Midlands.
The region is the controlling centre for BBC WM, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke and BBC Radio Shropshire.