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BBC WM
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BBC WM is the BBC Local Radio service for the West Midlands and South Staffordshire, operated by BBC Birmingham. Launched on November 7, 1970 as BBC Birmingham, it currently broadcasts from central Birmingham on 95.6 FM, DAB and on the internet.
In the 1990s, as a BBC economy measure, the station took over BBC CWR (broadcasting to Coventry and Warwickshire). More recently, separate news bulletins for the Coventry and Warwickshire area, as well as a separate breakfast and afternoon programmes, returned to the CWR frequencies, and on 3 September 2005 CWR (reverting to its original title of BBC Coventry & Warwickshire) resumed the production and transmission of continuous local programming between 5.00 and 22.00 each weekday (6.00 - 18.00 at weekends).
Until 2004, BBC WM broadcast from the Pebble Mill studios, also in Birmingham.
On 4 July, 2004, the station moved to the new the offices of BBC Birmingham, located in The Mailbox. Over the second half of 2004, all the departments based at Pebble Mill moved to the Mailbox. BBC WM was one of the first to move, with local television news and BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers among the last.
The first presenter to officially broadcast from the new studios was BBC WM stalwart Ed Doolan. Other broadcasters include Les Ross, Tony Butler & now Phil Upton who has recently taken over the Breakfast Show.
The new local radio facilities include two broadcast studios; a talk studio; an operations and production area; and a studio shared with the BBC Asian Network.
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Saturdays
- 6.00am Jimmy Franks
- 9.00 Janice Long
- 12.00 Phil Upton
- 2.00pm Sport On Saturday
- 6.00 John Platt - Network Gold
- 8.00 The Bishop Joe Aldred Show
- 10.00 Loyd Williams
- 11.00 Ben Turner
- 1.00am as BBC Radio 5 Live
Sundays
- 6.00am Mike Rimmer
- 9.00 Danny Kelly
- 12.00 Ed Doolan - The Other Side of...
- 1.00pm Carl Chinn
- 4.00 Bob Brolly - Irish Show
- 7.00 Wolverhampton Community Radio
- 8.00 Nikki Tapper - gospel Show
- 10.00 Jenny Wilkes - Soul Show
- 12.00 Your Space
- 1.00am as BBC Radio 5 Live
Mondays - Thursdays
- 5.00am Mollie Green
- 7.00 Phil Upton - Phil Upton @ Breakfast
- 10.00 Ed Doolan
- 1.00pm Les Ross
- 4.00 Paul Franks
- 7.00 Tony Butler - Football Phone in
- 8.00 Daz Hale
- 10.00 Danny Kelly
- 1.00am as BBC Radio 5 Live
Fridays
as Mondays - Thursdays except:
- 6.00pm Paul Franks - Football Phone in
- 8.00pm Ed Doolan - The Other Side of...
- 9.00 Satnam Rana - Midlands Masala
- 12.00 Tracey Ward - Tracey's Jail Mail
- 2.00am as BBC Radio 5 Live
Malcolm Boyden made a brief return to the Station in the Summer of 2006 & has since covered for various holidaying presenters for the station.
The BBC already streams its national radio services on the internet and is committed to extending this to its English local radio services. On 22 October, 2004, it began streaming BBC WM.
- Gordon Astley - now at BBC Southern Counties Radio
- Pat de Whalley
- Coral Chapman
- Samantha Meah
- John Taynton
- Paul Brighton
- Tony Inchley
- Shane O'Connor - now at BBC Radio Derby
- Tony Wadsworth - now at BBC Radio Leicester
- Julie Mayer - now at BBC Radio Leicester
- Andy Whittaker - now at BBC Radio Derby, but leaving to join BBC Radio Nottingham
- Nicky Steele
- Pogus Caesar
- Simon Lederman - now at BBC London 94.9
- Windrush E. Smith
- Frank Stewart
- Bob Ramdhanie
- Tony T
- Tubby Stan
- Saroya Patrick
- Chris Ashley
- Judy Simpson
- Malcolm Boyden - now at BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Coventry & Warwickshire but has been heard covering on BBC WM since leaving the station.
- Herdle White
- Viv Ellis now a TV producer
- Alan Dedicoat Now a leading Voice Over Artist - esp as "the voice of the balls" on BBC Lottery Show. He is also head of continuity at BBC Radio 2.
- Stuart Roper
- Marverine Cole - now a TV News Reporter at BBC Midlands Today in Birmingham
- BBC WM for Birmingham and the Black Country
- BBC WM for Coventry and Warwickshire
- Station history
- Media UK - BBC WM
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East: Essex • Radio Cambridgeshire • Radio Norfolk • Radio Northampton • Radio Suffolk • Three Counties Radio East Midlands: Radio Derby • Radio Leicester • Radio Nottingham North West: Radio Lancashire • Radio Manchester • Radio Merseyside North East and Cumbria: BBC Tees • Radio Cumbria • Radio Newcastle South and South East: Radio Kent • Southern Counties Radio South: Radio Berkshire • Radio Oxford • Radio Solent London: London 94.9 South West and the Channel Islands: Radio Cornwall • Radio Devon • Radio Guernsey • Radio Jersey West: Radio Bristol • Radio Gloucestershire • Radio Swindon • Radio Wiltshire • Somerset West Midlands: BBC WM • Coventry and Warwickshire • Hereford and Worcester • Radio Shropshire • Radio Stoke Yorkshire: Radio Leeds • Radio Sheffield • Radio York Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Radio Humberside • Radio Lincolnshire Former stations: Radio Brighton • Radio Durham • BBC GLR • Radio London • Radio Surrey |
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| FM Stations | 88.3 • 90.5 • 92.7 • 93.5 • 95.6 • 96.4 • 97.2 • 97.9 • 98.7 • 100.1 • 100.7 • 101.8 • 102.2 • 105.2 • 105.7 • 107.7 |
| AM Stations | 693 • 828 • 990 • 1152 • 1296 |
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United Kingdom Radio Markets: London • Manchester • West Midlands |
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