5IT was aBritish Broadcasting Company (laterBBC)radio station which broadcast fromBirmingham,England, between 1922 and 1927.

Birmingham was the first British city outsideLondon to have a radio service from the newly formed British Broadcasting Company, with 5IT starting regular broadcasting from itsWitton base at 17:00 on 15 November 1922,^[1]: 207 one day after2LO started daily BBC broadcasting from London^[1]: 157 and one hour before the 18:00 launch ofManchester's2ZY.^[1]: 161 5IT pioneered many innovations in early broadcasting, launchingChildren's Hour in 1922,^[2] developing sophisticated methods of programme control and employing the first full-time announcers in 1923.^[3] The station's first announcer on its opening night was its general managerPercy Edgar,^[3] who was to be the dominant figure in Birmingham broadcasting and the BBC's most influential regional director until his retirement in 1948.^[4]: 311

5IT moved its studios from Witton to a former cinema inNew Street in 1923, moving again in 1926 to a completely new building inBroad Street with two studios – one of the largest the country,^[5] if not Europe. The Broad Street studios now controlled and made programmes for a region stretching across central England fromThe Potteries toNorfolk.

From 21 August 1927 the low-powered city station 5IT was replaced by the5GB (theBBC Midland Region) – the first of the BBC's regional services^[6] – broadcast from the new high poweredDaventry transmitting station atBorough Hill nearDaventry.^[4]: 282

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