Smooth West Midlands Radio

Smooth West Midlands serves a regional audience with familiar songs and an easy-going style of presentation. Its music is drawn from a broad popular repertoire rather than one release decade, with recognisable voices and melodic arrangements running through the daily programme.

The West Midlands service publishes a regional newsroom contact and identifies Birmingham's Brindleyplace as a station contact base. Local reporting is combined with national and world stories, sport, weather and entertainment information. This provides a regional spoken strand around the shared music programmes, rather than replacing them with a separate all-day local schedule. Smooth's wider activity also includes Global's Make Some Noise, supporting small charities whose work assists people in communities around the UK.

The West Midlands service carries Jenni Falconer's Smooth Breakfast, Kate Garraway's morning programme and afternoon music with Paul Phear and Angie Greaves. Garraway begins with a sustained hour of songs, while the other shows give familiar presenters a role around the repertoire. The regional news and travel strand accompanies these shared programmes, rather than implying an entirely separate Birmingham-only entertainment schedule.

The Smooth Sanctuary with Darren Parks concentrates on a more relaxed musical selection in the evening, followed by Martin Collins on The Smooth Late Show. Weekend voices include Eamonn Kelly, Adil Ray, Tina Hobley and Myleene Klass. This gives the station different presenters and programme moods across the week while retaining the melodic, recognisable-song character associated with Smooth.