History
Until 2004, BBC WM broadcast from the Pebble Mill studios, in Edgbaston. On 4 July of that year, the station moved to the new BBC Birmingham city centre offices in The Mailbox. Its facilities include two broadcast studios, a talk studio, an operations and production area, and a studio shared with the BBC Asian Network.
In the 1980s, the station also had a studio in the back of a shop in New Street. The shop sold trinkets branded with the Radio WM identity.
As a 1990s economy measure, the station took over BBC CWR (Coventry and Warwickshire radio). On 3 September 2005, CWR resumed the production of separate programming between 5.00 and 22.00 each weekday (6.00 - 18.00 at weekends).
In late 2011 the station began using the on air identity of BBC WM 95.6 as opposed to BBC WM as it had previously used. BBC WM 95.6 now operates from 0500 to 0100 hours Monday-Thursday, 0500 to 0000 hours on Fridays, 0600 to 2200 and from 0600 to 0100 hours on Sundays with specialist music programming,and shows serving the local Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities.
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