Heart West Midlands live

Heart West Midlands serves Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton and the surrounding conurbation — after London, the largest audience Heart addresses anywhere in the country. The station is the successor to BRMB, one of Britain's original commercial licences, which went on air in 1974 and was a landmark of Birmingham broadcasting for nearly forty years before Global folded it into the Heart network. Listeners of a certain age still refer to it by the old name. Today it carries the national Heart output with regional news, travel and advertising, following the pattern Ofcom permitted from 2019 onwards when it allowed networked programming to replace most local shows. The trade-off is familiar across British commercial radio: fewer local voices, but a station that survives in a market where standalone local licences no longer pay for themselves. The playlist is Heart's usual broad adult pop, drawn across several decades and pitched against BBC WM and the Capital and Free Radio services in the same patch. Press play above for the live stream, free and with nothing to install.