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.svg) BBC East Midlands's area within the UK | |
| TV transmitters | Waltham |
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| Radio stations | BBC Radio Derby BBC Radio Leicester BBC Radio Nottingham BBC Radio Lincolnshire BBC Radio Northampton |
| Headquarters | London Road, West Bridgford,Nottingham, NG2 4UU |
| Area | Derbyshire (exceptHigh Peak,Chesterfield,Bolsover,North East Derbyshire, and Northern parts ofDerbyshire Dales) Leicestershire Nottinghamshire (exceptBassetlaw) Rutland Lincolnshire (South Kesteven) some northern parts ofNorthamptonshire |
| Nation | BBC English Regions |
| Regions | East Midlands |
Key people | Stuart Thomas (Head of Regional & Local Programmes) |
Launch date | January 1991 |
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BBC East Midlands is theBBC English Region coveringDerbyshire (exceptHigh Peak,Chesterfield,North East Derbyshire and the northern areas of theDerbyshire Dales),Leicestershire,Nottinghamshire (exceptBassetlaw),Rutland,South Kesteven inLincolnshire and some northern parts ofNorthamptonshire.
BBC East Midlands's television output consists of the flagship regional news serviceEast Midlands Today. The region also produces its own political programmePolitics East Midlands which airs on Sunday mornings when Parliament is in session.
The region is the controlling centre forBBC Radio Nottingham,BBC Radio Derby andBBC Radio Leicester.
On weekdays, each local radio station will have three standardised programme blocks with a total of three presenters for daytime as follows:
BBC East Midlands also produces regional news & local radio pages forBBC Red Button and the 'BBC Local News' websites for each county.
The region itself used to be part of BBC Midlands as one large region controlled fromPebble Mill Studios but was served by a small television and radio studio based on the top floor of Willson House on Derby Road in Nottingham. This studio supplied live reporter pieces and interviews as injects into the BBC Midlands evening programme "Midlands Today", which were seen by the whole region - the Nottingham studio also produced some regional programming, includingThe Dog Show andDennis McCarthy's Weekly Echo.
However, to better serve East Midlands viewers, a few changes were made. Initially, the region was given an opt-out news service consisting of an opt-out withinMidlands Today and some short bulletins, but this was expanded in January 1991, when a whole new region was created. The new region had a new news programme, although the programme's visual identity remained the same as its West Midlands counterpart. The region is now very much separate from the Midlands region.
In 1991, the TV studios, Radio Nottingham, and the BBC region's offices were at York House onMansfield Road. This becameNottingham Trent University's Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism, with the TV studios left intact; NTU's centre opened in September 1999. York House was demolished in 2021.[1] In 2009, NTU moved its broadcasting centre to its Chaucer Building onGoldsmith Street.
The Nottingham headquarters were built after the region was created, and were state of the art. Construction began on 3 September 1997, costing £4.5million, and built bySimons Construction ofLincoln; the site had been bought originally fromBoots. The site opened on 10 January 1999.[2][3] At the time Richard Lucas was HRLP for the region, and this region included Lincolnshire.[4][5]
When constructed in January 1999, it contained the newsroom forEast Midlands Today, a small studio for use by regional news, and accommodation forBBC Radio Nottingham. It is located onLondon Road,Nottingham.[6]
In addition to the main headquarters, the region has offices in St. Helens Street,Derby containingBBC Radio Derby, and in St. Nicholas Place,Leicester housingBBC Radio Leicester. Both of these premises also contain news bureaux for East Midlands Today.
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