24-756: BBC Midlands may refer to: BBC East Midlands , the BBC English Region covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland, headquartered in Nottingham BBC West Midlands , the BBC English Region covering the West Midlands metropolitan county, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and parts of Northern Gloucestershire, and headquartered in Birmingham Topics referred to by
48-526: A few changes were made. Initially, the region was given an opt-out news service consisting of an opt-out within Midlands Today and some short bulletins, but this was expanded in January 1991, when a whole new region was created. The new region had a new news programme, although the programme's visual identity remained the same as its West Midlands counterpart. The region is now very much separate from
72-781: A new, larger headquarters at the nearby St Catherine's Close. From here, editions of radio programmes such as Midlands Miscellany were broadcast into the Midlands Home Service before the end of 1956. The opening of the Tacolneston transmitting station enabled programmes to be broadcast from Norwich purely for East Anglia on the VHF edition of the Home Service, and regular broadcasts from St Catherine's Close began on Tuesday 5 February 1957. Daily news bulletins for East Anglia began on Monday 10 March 1958, on VHF from
96-481: A small studio for use by regional news, and accommodation for BBC Radio Nottingham . It is located on London Road , Nottingham . In addition to the main headquarters, the region has offices in St. Helens Street, Derby containing BBC Radio Derby , and in St. Nicholas Place, Leicester housing BBC Radio Leicester . Both of these premises also contain news bureaux for East Midlands Today. BBC East BBC East
120-696: A timeslot change the following year. In September 1964, another change of timeslot saw it become Look East , a title the programme still goes under today. The Norwich-based operation was initially a satellite of the larger BBC Midland region, based in Birmingham. East Anglia was given greater autonomy within the BBC in 1969 after the Broadcasting in the Seventies report recommended the large Midlands and East Anglia region should be split into two, enabling
144-589: Is also a shared regional programme broadcast across the stations from 10 pm to 1 am on weeknights, except for BBC Essex who has a stand-alone schedule, and other shared programmes at weekends. BBC East also produces regional news and local radio pages for BBC Red Button and the BBC Local News websites for each county. In the mid-1950s, the BBC had a temporary headquarters in Norwich at No. 35 All Saints Green. In September 1956 they moved to
168-710: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages BBC East Midlands BBC East Midlands is the BBC English Region covering Derbyshire (except High Peak , Chesterfield , North East Derbyshire and the northern areas of the Derbyshire Dales ), Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire (except Bassetlaw ), Rutland , South Kesteven in Lincolnshire and some northern parts of Northamptonshire . BBC East Midlands' s television output consists of
192-605: Is near to Waltham as well. The journalistic coverage is different from the broadcast coverage because of the set of radio stations that are tied to the BBC East Midlands region, and which are not. Peterborough and north Northamptonshire, although mostly covered by Waltham, have their radio stations both tied to the BBC East region in distant Norwich . It began broadcasting in widescreen format in July 2002. In 1991,
216-615: Is one of BBC's English Regions covering Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , Cambridgeshire , Northamptonshire , Bedfordshire and parts of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire (including the City of Milton Keynes ). It is headquartered in The Forum, Norwich since 2003. It was also separated into two areas, one with the East area covering mostly in Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex, and another from
240-501: Is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Nottingham , BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Leicester . On weekdays, each local radio station will have three standardised programme blocks with a total of three presenters for daytime as follows: BBC East Midlands also produces regional news & local radio pages for BBC Red Button and the 'BBC Local News' websites for each county. The region itself used to be part of BBC Midlands as one large region controlled from Pebble Mill Studios but
264-447: Is the sub-region for Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. The last of these bulletins was broadcast on Friday 16 December 2022, as a result of the BBC restructuring of regional programming leading to budget cutbacks. Until 1980, regional radio programming was provided by an East Anglia opt-out on BBC Radio 4 , consisting largely of daytime news bulletins and a weekday breakfast show, Roundabout East Anglia . The first BBC Local Radio station in
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#1732772977850288-640: The Midlands region. Although the East Midlands and West Midlands are similar in size, the Birmingham programme covers a larger area than the Nottingham programme because its region has three main transmitters, and the Nottingham programme has one, of which the eastern half of Waltham's TSA is outside the BBC East Midlands area. Waltham is on the eastern edge of Leicestershire, and is also the main transmitter for south Lincolnshire. North Northamptonshire
312-660: The Norwich studios, under the supervision of Richard Robinson. The launch of regional BBC television news in September 1957 initially saw East Anglia being covered by the service for London and the South East, but in June 1959, with the forthcoming launch of Anglia Television in mind, the Corporation gave the go-ahead to create a TV operation in Norwich with the purpose of transmitting a bespoke ten-minute news bulletin for
336-481: The TV studios, Radio Nottingham, and the BBC region's offices were at York House on Mansfield Road . This became Nottingham Trent University 's Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism, with the TV studios left intact; NTU's centre opened in September 1999. York House was demolished in 2021. In 2009, NTU moved its broadcasting centre to its Chaucer Building on Goldsmith Street . The Nottingham headquarters were built after
360-481: The West area which covers from Cambridge, serving mostly Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and the three counties. BBC East' s television output (broadcast on BBC One ) consists of its flagship regional news service BBC Look East , as well as a 30-minute Sunday morning politics programme. Former programmes include Weekend , East on Two , Matter of Fact and the football magazine show Late Kick Off (produced by
384-469: The flagship regional news service East Midlands Today . The region also produces its own political programme Politics East Midlands which airs on Sunday mornings when Parliament is in session. The television area is bigger than the region's radio area, because of the coverage from Waltham over Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. In reality, Radio Leicester covers much the same area as TV reception from Waltham, including all of Northamptonshire. The region
408-482: The independent production company Kevin Piper Media). The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Norfolk , BBC Radio Suffolk , BBC Essex , BBC Radio Cambridgeshire , BBC Radio Northampton and BBC Three Counties Radio . On weekdays, all six stations open transmission at 4 am with a shared regional early morning show before carrying local programming between 6 am and 10 pm. There
432-447: The region each weekday. The BBC's general policy was to ensure a regional TV news service was launched ahead of the regional ITV franchise. The first TV news bulletin for the east from St Catherine's Close was broadcast at 6.05pm on 5 October 1959, nearly four weeks ahead of the launch of Anglia. In September 1962, the programme was extended to 20 minutes in length and renamed East Anglia at Six , before becoming East at Six Ten due to
456-440: The region to produce and broadcast more of its own regional programming. During 1997, an opt-out service (originally titled Close Up ) was introduced to provide local bulletins for Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Peterborough and Milton Keynes. This service provided separate teatime and late bulletins Monday to Friday in an area referred to on EPGs as BBC East (West) rather than BBC East (East) which
480-431: The region was created, and were state of the art. Construction began on 3 September 1997, costing £4.5million, and built by Simons Construction of Lincoln ; the site had been bought originally from Boots . The site opened on 10 January 1999. At the time Richard Lucas was HRLP for the region, and this region included Lincolnshire. When constructed in January 1999, it contained the newsroom for East Midlands Today ,
504-658: The region, Radio Norfolk, was opened on 11 September 1980 and followed by the rollout of stations in Cambridgeshire (1 May 1982), Northamptonshire (16 June 1982), the Three Counties of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire (24 June 1985), Essex (5 November 1986) and Suffolk (12 April 1990). BBC East's main headquarters and studios are based at The Forum on Millennium Plain in Norwich , having moved from St Catherine's Close in 2003. The move to The Forum
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#1732772977850528-420: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BBC Midlands . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BBC_Midlands&oldid=826035629 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
552-527: Was a result of a number of factors: the listed status of the building restricted much of what the BBC did there, the location was less central than the BBC wanted, their ideal location being in Norwich city centre, the equipment was becoming old and needed replacing, and the Disability Discrimination Act meant that their headquarters now needed major modifications to comply with the law. BBC East also has radio and television studios at
576-518: Was served by a small television and radio studio based on the top floor of Willson House on Derby Road in Nottingham. This studio supplied live reporter pieces and interviews as injects into the BBC Midlands evening programme "Midlands Today", which were seen by the whole region - the Nottingham studio also produced some regional programming, including The Dog Show and Dennis McCarthy's Weekly Echo . However, to better serve East Midlands viewers,
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