The first BBC Home Service broadcasting site in Nottingham was from the third floor of the Bentinck Buildings in Wheelergate from 18 August 1950.

[5] Also earlier in 1950, Nottingham's Ken Adam had become Controller of the Light Programme (BBC Radio 2 from 1967).

[8] The controller of the BBC Midland region was John Dunkerley CBE (10 October 1902 – 21 March 1985), who had been there since 1932, working with composer Victor Hely-Hutchinson; Dunkerley was replaced in August 1964 by Patrick Beech CBE, of Malvern, the assistant head of the BBC West region.

[19][20] The building was designed by Bartlett & Gray, and built by Sweeney & Palmer Ltd of Beechdale Road; structural steelwork was done by Siddons of Redhill.

The building was named after Robert Willson (bishop) who was responsible for the cathedral being there, and built by the Catholic diocese, costing £50,000.

[21] On Monday 13 December 1976 colour news first came from the Derby Road studio on Holden Street.

[23] From Monday 7 to Friday 11 September 1981, Midlands Today was broadcast entirely from the Nottingham studio on Derby Road, next to the catholic Cathedral.

[24] The first East Midlands short TV news bulletins began on Monday 3 October 1983, with Graham Henshaw.

[26] Julie, with a degree in Industrial Relations, soon returned to Channel 4 to present the 'Union World' documentary series'[27][28] Tom Beesley, educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, the station manager from 1973 to 79 of Radio Nottingham had been the Midland regional television manager since August 1982, and lived in Kinoulton, and knew the Nottingham area, being born in Leicester.

[29][30] In 1992 Janet Mayo voiced the announcements on the London Underground Central Line; the 85 trains were built by BREL in Derby.

To prepare for the new region, a new studio was built on Mansfield Road, opened by 53-year-old Michael Checkland on 27 June 1989.

On 5 February 1996, the show introduced a double-anchored presentation with Quentin Rayner and Kathy Rochford.

The western area of the High Peak (Buxton, Glossop, New Miils and Chapel-en-le-Frith), in Derbyshire are covered by North West Tonight.

However, those areas are given East Midlands Today on Channel 101 through satellite television such as Freesat as default via the towns' postcodes.