Overview
Midlands Today is produced by BBC Midlands and broadcasts on BBC One after the BBC News at 1 and BBC News at 6. The programme is produced and broadcast from the BBC studios in The Mailbox, Birmingham. Journalists are also based at newsrooms in Coventry, Hereford, Worcester, Stoke-on-Trent, and Shrewsbury.
In 1988 the programme became the first regional news magazine to adopt the formal news format already commonplace on network news.
The programme began broadcasting from a small room in the Birmingham Register Office and moved 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 Home at The Mailbox
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 1N at 28.2° East (10788V 22000 5/6). The latest edition is also available to view again on the Midlands Today website.
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