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BBC West Midlands
BBC Midlands is the BBC English Region producing local radio and web content for the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and parts of Gloucestershire. Originally containing the BBC East Midlands, the service retains the BBC Midlands name and brand, with its history dating from 1927, for public use. It was known as the Midland Region from 1927 until c. 1974.
The directorate is known internally as BBC Midlands, despite only serving the West Midlands transmission region.
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, Politics England airs for half an hour on Sunday mornings and other regional commissions air throughout the year.
The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR, BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke and BBC Radio Shropshire.
Some of this programming is simulcast with the radio stations in the BBC East Midlands region, and overnight BBC Radio 5 Live is simulcast.
BBC Midlands produces regional news for the BBC News website, as well as exclusive podcasts for the BBC Sounds app. Until 2012 they produced local pages for Ceefax, which was replaced by services on BBC Red Button.
In 2005 a year long pilot of 'Local TV', an interactive service which provided TV for the local radio station coverage areas, was conducted. The pilot was not successful and did not expand out across the other English Regions.
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 possibility.
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BBC West Midlands
BBC Midlands is the BBC English Region producing local radio and web content for the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and parts of Gloucestershire. Originally containing the BBC East Midlands, the service retains the BBC Midlands name and brand, with its history dating from 1927, for public use. It was known as the Midland Region from 1927 until c. 1974.
The directorate is known internally as BBC Midlands, despite only serving the West Midlands transmission region.
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, Politics England airs for half an hour on Sunday mornings and other regional commissions air throughout the year.
The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR, BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke and BBC Radio Shropshire.
Some of this programming is simulcast with the radio stations in the BBC East Midlands region, and overnight BBC Radio 5 Live is simulcast.
BBC Midlands produces regional news for the BBC News website, as well as exclusive podcasts for the BBC Sounds app. Until 2012 they produced local pages for Ceefax, which was replaced by services on BBC Red Button.
In 2005 a year long pilot of 'Local TV', an interactive service which provided TV for the local radio station coverage areas, was conducted. The pilot was not successful and did not expand out across the other English Regions.
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 possibility.