[3] BBC English Regions has its headquarters at The Mailbox in Birmingham (West Midlands) and additional regional television centres in Norwich, Nottingham, Broadcasting House (London), Newcastle, MediaCityUK (Salford), Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Plymouth, Bristol, Leeds, and Kingston upon Hull as well as local radio stations based at 43 locations across England.

[4] Overall, the division produces over 70% of the BBC's domestic television and radio output hours, for about 7% of the licence fee.

The effect of Broadcasting in the Seventies was to separate the two different roles of regional BBC offices into different organisations:[8][9] Each of the production centres also had network radio studios (BBC Birmingham, for instance, producing The Archers) plus a small television news studio, the latter to enable local (opt out) programming.

The decreasing costs of television production and improving technology also enabled the gradual development of even smaller regions.

In 2022, a new regional documentary strand titled We Are England was launched,[18][19] as a replacement for the current affairs show Inside Out.

[27][28] In May 2022, the BBC announced a raft of closures, restructures and cost-cutting measures and one of these was the decision not to renew We Are England for a third series.