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887:(RCA 3 inch image orthicons) were salvaged. The associated camera control units, sound and vision production/mixer desk and seating were all very precariously held together with Dexion angle and old packing cases. A smaller room alongside was used for early evening local news broadcasts by dragging a camera in from the main studio. Acoustic treatment was achieved using old egg trays glued to the walls. It was all "make do and mend" and breakdowns were frequent. In 1959 a new purpose built news studio equipped with latest "miniature" Vidicon cameras was established in Broad Street in an old building backing on to Gas Street Basin. This building was already the main "switching centre" for the national network for radio and TV. Carpenter Road was also the base for BBC Midlands TV outside broadcasts with MCR10 – a articulated mobile control unit – equipped with Marconi Mk1 3 inch image orthicon cameras. It was also the base for the necessary VHF/UHF "Links Unit" to get the outside broadcast pictures and sound back into the national network – in the Midlands area usually via the main TV transmitter mast at Sutton Coldfield. In 1959 the BBC acquired the Victorian-era ex-boxing booth/cinema/theatre at Gosta Green and this was completely internally altered to become a fully equipped TV studio and TV film unit with canteens, offices, green room and editing suite. 780: 3063: 2421: 769: 866: 2431: 35: 151: 132: 2441: 1002:, which ran from 1972 until 1986 and raised the profile of the studios to something of a national institution. The idea to use the foyer came about because of a lack of other studio space. It was one of the few daytime magazine programmes at the time, and quickly became popular. The Pebble Mill format returned in 1988 as 898:
All these departments, together with a new local radio station, were unified on the Pebble Mill site in a phased move during 1970/71. The new complex, known as the Broadcasting Centre, was the BBC's first building designed for both television and radio studios, and housed the corporation's largest TV
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for the new creative quarter in Digbeth, Birmingham from 2026. The new broadcast centre will occupy the former Tyhpoo Tea factory. By then in adjacent studios the BBC’s flagship show Masterchef would have already taken up residence. The move coincides with BBC’s lease at The Mailbox coming to an end
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just north of the city centre. Regional television and some radio production were in Broad Street. Other radio studios were located at Broadcasting House in Carpenter Road, Edgbaston, and at the Walker Hall in Ampton Road, Edgbaston. The Carpenter Road site also housed the administrative offices.
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for rehearsals and live broadcasts. In 1957 BBC TV was established in Birmingham for the first time taking over the MLO's studio and installing the necessary lighting on builders' scaffolding. By gutting an ex-London redundant BBC TV outside broadcast unit ("Scanner") the necessary three cameras
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During the early '60s, BBC Birmingham pioneered television programmes, for the Asian community. These were presented and produced by Mahendra Kaul and directed by Ashok Rampal, and broadcast on Sunday mornings on the sole BBC Television channel at the time. The programme,
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The Midlands contributes the highest portion of the BBC's revenue through licence fees (£942 million) yet has the second lowest amount of BBC spending in the region, after Northern Ireland. This equates to "91% of Midland BBC licence fees spent elsewhere"
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the BBC took over the headquarters of the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind, a very large collection of buildings in Carpenter Road, Edgbaston. Here in the 1950s were several radio studios, the largest of which was used by the
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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
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Some departments within BBC Birmingham, such as factual programming, have been subject to review as part of a wider restructuring process. Much of the factual department, making programmes such as
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The Birmingham studios also occasionally accommodated productions usually based in London when regular studio space was unavailable, for example the children's programmes,
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BBC Birmingham output has steadily diminished over time as production has moved elsewhere with the closure of Pebble Mill and the development of other BBC sites.
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are former productions. The closure of the Factual Unit in 2012 meant no factual programmes outside of regional output are produced in Birmingham.
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as the regular house band, who also performed the show's signature tune. The programme was directed and produced by Roy Norton and Roy Ronnie.
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facility in the city centre. Pebble Mill has been demolished to make way for a dental hospital and school of dentistry, which opened in 2016.
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Before 1971, several converted buildings across the city were used for the BBC's operations in Birmingham. At some point after the
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re-surfaced during the Mill's summer break, presented by Donny MacLeod and Marian Foster, and occupying the slot vacated by
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BBC Birmingham used the main foyer of its Pebble Mill building for the early afternoon television magazine programme
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When Pebble Mill closed in 2004, BBC Birmingham moved to the Mailbox building in the city centre, and to the
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was also produced by BBC Birmingham as was some content of the astronomy-based programme
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is the regional operation providing news, current affairs and other regional programmes.
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during the power cuts of 1972 when the Lime Grove studios in London were in darkness.
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Some nationally popular programmes were hosted by BBC Birmingham and recorded at the
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is broadcast from in the Mailbox in Birmingham, and is the regional news for;
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Drama Department, established in 1971, and headed by the senior BBC producer
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As with all other BBC regions, BBC Birmingham is responsible for providing
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A popular BBC2 programme from Birmingham for much of the 1970s-1990s was
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Well-known BBC programmes based in Birmingham included the drama series
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In 1981, an early evening version of a 1960s hit show on BBC1 called
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having been located there since the move from Pebble Mill in 2004.
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It was announced in August 2022, that BBC Birmingham will leave
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is produced for BBC Radio 4. For afternoon broadcast after
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Among the Department's best known productions are perhaps
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The BBC Birmingham public space on Level 3 of the Mailbox
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There was a Pebble Mill spin-off during the 1970s, when
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In the 1970s and 1980s, BBC Birmingham was home to the
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1928, which described it as "Europe's largest studio".
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