Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
That was ATV Today, not the BBC's "Midlands Today", exactly the same Birmingham bias but less serious with the John Swallow and Chris Tarrant reports (you'd never see people with hair as long as that on BBC news).
BBC "Midlands Today" did introduce an East Midlands opt out in the early 80s from a tiny studio in Wilson House on Derby Road, but I think the Nottingham transmitter was still relaying from Sutton Coldfield at the time so you would have only seen it if your aerial was pointing at Waltham.

The older people here might remember when BBC Midlands local news & weather was lumped in with East Anglia, with the TV regions based on the same large areas as "Home Service" radio.
Oh yeah, ATV. Swap the T and V around , you get....Aston Villa Television.