BBC West Midlands schedule - and "Midlands Today" in 1964, one of the UK's first daily regional news programmes. Regional television had been established in 1957 with the launch of local evening news bulletins. Although it fared better than the struggling BBC North or BBC West (which was threatened for a while with being absorbed by the Midlands Region), it was clear that if BBC Midlands was too large to be truly local in the radio market, it was equally too small to be as self-sufficient across the full range of television programming as it had been in radio. The result was the
BBC Radio 2 Country one-off shows for Radio 2 Country or have given hour-long interviews to be broadcast on the station: BBC Radio 2 Country BBC Radio 2 Country is a pop-up DAB service from the BBC which launched at 12 Noon on Thursday 5 March 2015. The station covers the and is only an active during the festival. On its debut the station continued to broadcast for 12 hours each day until Sunday 8 March 2015. It returned twice so far - on 10 March 2016, closing down on 13 March 2016 and on 9 March 2017, closing down on 12th March 2017.