BBC East Midlands
 .svg) BBC East Midlands's area within the UK |
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| TV transmitters | Waltham |
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| Radio stations |
BBC Radio Derby BBC Radio Leicester BBC Radio Nottingham |
| Headquarters | London Road, Nottingham, NG2 4UU |
| Area |
Derbyshire (except the North Midlands area) Leicestershire Nottinghamshire (except the North Midlands area) Rutland Lincolnshire (South Kesteven) |
| Nation | BBC English Regions |
| Regions | East Midlands |
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Key people
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Stuart Thomas (Head of Regional & Local Programmes) |
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Launch date
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January 1991 |
BBC East Midlands is the BBC English Region covering Derbyshire (except High Peak, North East Derbyshire and the northern areas of the Derbyshire Dales), Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire (except Bassetlaw), Rutland and South Kesteven in Lincolnshire.
BBC East Midlands's television output consists of the flagship regional news service East Midlands Today, the topical magazine programme Inside Out and a 15-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics.
The television area is bigger than the region's radio area, because of the coverage from Waltham over Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. In reality, Radio Leicester covers much the same area as TV reception from Waltham, including all of Northamptonshire.
The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Leicester.
On weekdays, the three stations carry local programming between 6am and 7pm before joining together for a nationwide evening show presented by Mark Forrest. The weekday 'East Midlands Late Show' is produced at Nottingham from Sunday to Thursday, and is presented by various hosts on air between 10pm and closedown at 1am.
BBC East Midlands also produces regional news & local radio pages for BBC 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 from Pebble 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, including The Dog Show and Dennis McCarthy's Weekly Echo.
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