''Birmingham News'' is a local television news and current affairs programme, covering the
Birmingham
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,
Black Country and
Solihull
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areas and produced by
Made in Birmingham
Local TV Birmingham (typeset as LOCAL TV Birmingham) is a British local television station, serving Birmingham, the Black Country, Wolverhampton and Solihull in the West Midlands of England.
The station is owned and operated by Local Televisio ...
. It was broadcast between 2015 and 2017.
Overview
''Birmingham News'' covered stories from Made in Birmingham's broadcast area of Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull. The programme first aired as ''The Midland'' on the opening night of
Big Centre TV
Local TV Birmingham (typeset as LOCAL TV Birmingham) is a British local television station, serving Birmingham, the Black Country, Wolverhampton and Solihull in the West Midlands of England.
The station is owned and operated by Local Televisi ...
on Saturday 28 February 2015, before relaunching as ''Big News'' on Monday 4 April 2016.
Following the sale of Big Centre TV to
Made Television
Local TV Limited (formerly Made Television) is a local television network in the United Kingdom, operating eight stations serving the Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, North Wales, Teesside and Tyne and Wear areas.
The stations a ...
, the station's news operation was overhauled and relaunched as ''Birmingham News'' on Tuesday 8 November 2016. In July 2017, Made in Birmingham's news operation moved from Walsall to new studios and offices on Bridge Street, beside the Gas Street Basin in Birmingham.
In November 2017, following a restructuring of the Made network's operations,
Jobs to be axed at Made in Birmingham TV station
Birmingham Post, 26 October 2017 ''Birmingham News'' was axed and local production was cut. Around ten staff were reportedly made redundant.
A replacement programme, ''Made TV News'' - combining local and national news stories - was produced from Leeds but axed in February 2018 in favour of ''West Midlands Live'', a rolling block of pre-recorded news, sport and features produced by local videojournalists.
Presenters and reporters for Big Centre TV's news programmes and ''Birmingham News'' included Mike Prince, Bob Hall, Llewela Bailey, Jennifer Meierhans, Lois Swinnerton, Monika Plaha, Roshni Patel, Marverine Cole,
References
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Made in Birmingham
2015 British television series debuts
2017 British television series endings
Mass media in Birmingham, West Midlands