The BBC, which moved to the Mailbox from Pebble Mill in 2004, occupies around 10,000 square metres spread over two floors and employs roughly 450 staff. The facilities include television and radio studios, a radio drama studio, edit suites, offices and a public foyer with a BBC retail store and cafe.

The radio soap, the Archers; the regional news programme, Midlands Today; the local radio station, BBC WM, and some Asian Network programmes are broadcast from the Mailbox. Visitors can watch live broadcasts from the public foyer.

The Mailbox can not accommodate the BBC Birmingham drama department because its foundations are unable to support a sufficiently large mezzanine floor.

The drama department, which makes Doctors and Dalziel & Pascoe, is based at the Drama Village on the Selly Oak campus of the University of Birmingham.

The BBC reduced its Birmingham workforce by 150 from 600 to 450 in October 2011 (News Headlines 08/10/11).

ATV Centre closed in 1997 and has been partially demolished; it will be redeveloped as Arena Central: a mixed-use office, hotel, residential and leisure complex.

Alpha Tower (1973), a 100-metre skyscraper built as offices for ATV, will be retained as part of the new development.

Central has been the independent television contractor for the Midlands region since 1982; most programmes are made in Nottingham or sub-contracted to sister companies in London and Manchester.

The Gas Street studios produce regional news programmes, including Central Tonight.

The station was launched as BBC Radio Birmingham in 1970; it broadcasts on 95.6FM, DAB and online; some content is simulcast from other BBC stations.

BBC WM market share fell from 8% in 2006 to 4.6% in 2010 when its weekly audience hit an all-time low of 190,000 (News Archive 17/12/10).

It is a regional rock and pop radio station that mainly plays contemporary hits with some news, local information and sport; the station broadcasts across Birmingham and the Black Country on 96.4 FM Stereo; it is also available on Digital DAB and worldwide via the internet.

BRMB was established in 1974 as the 4th commercial radio station in the UK after Capitol, LBC and Radio Clyde. It was named after a US-style call sign adopted by the station's original owners, Birmingham Broadcasting.

The station, which enjoys an audience share of around 5.6%, was initially based at the former Alpha Television Studios in Aston, but is now housed in purpose-built studios in Brindleyplace.