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BBC Midlands Today
BBC Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news service for the West Midlands. It was launched in 1964 and is presented by Mary Rhodes, Nick Owen, Ben Godfrey, Elizabeth Glinka, Rebecca Wood and Shefali Oza.
Midlands Today is produced by BBC Midlands and broadcasts on BBC One seven days a week. The programme is produced and broadcast from the BBC studios in The Mailbox, Birmingham. Journalists are also based at newsrooms in Coventry, Shrewsbury, Stoke-on-Trent, Worcester and Gloucester.
The programme began on 28 September 1964, broadcasting from a small room in the Birmingham Register Office before moving to the custom-built Pebble Mill broadcasting centre in Edgbaston on 10 November 1971. It remained there until the studios closed on 22 October 2004 when the BBC Birmingham operations were switched to the current studios at The Mailbox.
Until 1991, the programme also served the East Midlands, which has since received its own BBC regional TV news programme, East Midlands Today. The programme's editorial area consists of the West Midlands, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and northern Gloucestershire (even though Gloucestershire is not formally within the Midlands, being in the South West England region – it is also covered by BBC Points West).
Midlands Today is broadcast from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in the West Midlands and can be watched in any part of the UK on Sky, Freesat and in the rest of Europe via Astra 2E at 28.2° East (10788V 22000 5/6). The latest edition is also available to view again on the Midlands Today website and on BBC iPlayer.
Freeview viewers in northern Staffordshire around Kidsgrove and Biddulph cannot receive signal from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter; instead, they receive better signal from the Winter Hill transmitter that broadcasts North West Tonight from Salford. However, those areas can still watch Midlands Today on Channel 101, which broadcasts the BBC One West Midlands variant on Sky and Freesat by default.
Even though viewers in northern Oxfordshire around Banbury are served by South Today, the town can also receive Midlands Today from a local relay transmitter that is transmitted from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter.
Viewers in North West Leicestershire and Swadlincote in Derbyshire receive Midlands Today on Freeview as local news meaning those areas receive better signals from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter rather than Waltham transmitter.
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BBC Midlands Today
BBC Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news service for the West Midlands. It was launched in 1964 and is presented by Mary Rhodes, Nick Owen, Ben Godfrey, Elizabeth Glinka, Rebecca Wood and Shefali Oza.
Midlands Today is produced by BBC Midlands and broadcasts on BBC One seven days a week. The programme is produced and broadcast from the BBC studios in The Mailbox, Birmingham. Journalists are also based at newsrooms in Coventry, Shrewsbury, Stoke-on-Trent, Worcester and Gloucester.
The programme began on 28 September 1964, broadcasting from a small room in the Birmingham Register Office before moving to the custom-built Pebble Mill broadcasting centre in Edgbaston on 10 November 1971. It remained there until the studios closed on 22 October 2004 when the BBC Birmingham operations were switched to the current studios at The Mailbox.
Until 1991, the programme also served the East Midlands, which has since received its own BBC regional TV news programme, East Midlands Today. The programme's editorial area consists of the West Midlands, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and northern Gloucestershire (even though Gloucestershire is not formally within the Midlands, being in the South West England region – it is also covered by BBC Points West).
Midlands Today is broadcast from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in the West Midlands and can be watched in any part of the UK on Sky, Freesat and in the rest of Europe via Astra 2E at 28.2° East (10788V 22000 5/6). The latest edition is also available to view again on the Midlands Today website and on BBC iPlayer.
Freeview viewers in northern Staffordshire around Kidsgrove and Biddulph cannot receive signal from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter; instead, they receive better signal from the Winter Hill transmitter that broadcasts North West Tonight from Salford. However, those areas can still watch Midlands Today on Channel 101, which broadcasts the BBC One West Midlands variant on Sky and Freesat by default.
Even though viewers in northern Oxfordshire around Banbury are served by South Today, the town can also receive Midlands Today from a local relay transmitter that is transmitted from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter.
Viewers in North West Leicestershire and Swadlincote in Derbyshire receive Midlands Today on Freeview as local news meaning those areas receive better signals from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter rather than Waltham transmitter.