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BBC Birmingham is one of the oldest regional arms of the BBC. It was the first region outside of London to start broadcasting both the corporation's radio (in 1922) and television (in 1949) transmissions from the Sutton Coldfield television transmitter. For many years, BBC Birmingham was based at the famous Pebble Mill studios, but in 2004 moved to the brand-new Mailbox facility in the centre of the city. As of September 2005, demolition of the Pebble Mill complex was nearly complete. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Categories: Places of interest in Birmingham, England | Stub ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Sutton Coldfield television transmitter is a broadcasting transmitter based at Sutton Coldfield, in Birmingham, England (Grid reference SK113003). ... Pebble Mill Studios are located in the leafy suburbs of Birmingham, England. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Places of interest in Birmingham, England | Stub ... The city from above Centenary Square. ...

Pebble Mill at One, an afternoon talk show, ran for many years from the 1970s to the 1990s on BBC 1, with several long-standing presenters, including Alan Titchmarsh, and raised the profile of the Pebble Mill studios almost to the status of a national institution. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... Viewing Figure History BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ... Alan Titchmarsh, MBE (born 2 May 1949) is a presenter of a number of gardening programmes on UK television. ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Birmingham branch of the BBC was home to the famous English Regions Drama department, which was set up in 1976 with a remit for producing drama programmes set in various regions of the UK, to try and redress the balance of the majority of programmes being made and set in and around London. Perhaps the department's most famous drama production was Boys from the Blackstuff in 1982. The Birmingham studios have also occasionally provided a home to usually London-based productions when regular studio space has been unavailable, as was the case with the 1977 Doctor Who serial Horror of Fang Rock, which was shot at Pebble Mill. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor. It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character. ... Horror of Fang Rock is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 3 to September 24, 1977. ...

As with all other BBC regions, BBC Birmingham is responsible for providing local radio services and the regional television news broadcasts on BBC One during the times when all regions opt out of the network feed to provide their own local news programming, which in the BBC Birmingham area is called Midlands Today. As one of the larger regions, however, it also provides many programmes to the network for national consumption. The Mailbox, home to BBC WMs studios in Birmingham BBC WM is the BBC Local Radio service for the West Midlands and South Staffordshire, and Warwickshire operated by BBC Birmingham. ... Viewing Figure History BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ...

Well-known BBC programmes currently based in Birmingham include the drama series Dalziel and Pascoe, daytime soap opera Doctors and anthology series The Afternoon Play. In radio, the popular BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers is produced there. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a BBC television series. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on the BBCs main national spoken-word radio channel, Radio 4. ...

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