Radio stations in Birmingham

Birmingham forms a major radio audience within the wider West Midlands. A city edition can retain a Birmingham identity while sharing music or network programmes broadcast elsewhere. What establishes the connection is the audience it serves and the edition offered to them, rather than the address of the broadcaster's headquarters. A station for the entire West Midlands may also be relevant to the city without being exclusively a Birmingham service. Music-led and spoken stations have different ways of addressing local listeners. A city name alone says little about whether a programme favours current songs, familiar records or discussion. A useful description makes that distinction alongside its coverage. It also avoids presenting one Birmingham feed as if it served every part of the West Midlands in the same way, or assuming a broader regional programme has no particular relevance to the city.