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The first BBC television news bulletins for the East of England began on 5 October 1959. These bulletins were only three minutes in length.
The bulletin was extended to ten minutes in 1962 and named ''East Anglia at Six Ten'', and then relaunched as the twenty minute programme ''Look East'' on 28 September 1964.
''Look East'' is broadcast from BBC East's headquarters at The Forum,
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news
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programmes for the East of England made by BBC East
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History
The first BBC television news bulletins for the East of England began on 5 October 1959. These bulletins were only three minutes in length.
The bulletin was extended to ten minutes in 1962 and named ''East Anglia at Six Ten'', and then relaunched as the twenty minute programme ''Look East'' on 28 September 1964.
''Look East'' is broadcast from BBC East's headquarters at The Forum, Norwich
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. Prior to 29 September 2003, the programme aired from studios in St Catherine's Close, Norwich.
The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on Sky Digital channel 961, and channel 962 for the "west" sub-regional service from Cambridge
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or Freesat
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channels 953 (East) and 954 (West), on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite #REDIRECT BBC
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service. The services were added to the Sky Digital platform on 29 July 2003 and were available on Freesat from launch.
In 1997, ''BBC Look East'' launched the sub-regional service, ''Close Up'', for viewers covered by the Sandy Heath transmitting station and its relays. The opt-out allowed the two sub-regions to provide, during the main evening programme, around 10 minutes of news relevant to their area.
Since 2018, there are two separate editions ''BBC Look East'' for the main programme and the late news bulletin on weeknights.
*''BBC Look East - East'' which covers Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex
*''BBC Look East - West'' which covers Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), Northamptonshire, parts of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
At the end of the 18:30 programme on 30 September 2021, Stewart White announced his retirement from the BBC after 37 years as a main presenter of ''Look East''.
On 26 May 2022 it was announced that following BBC cost-cutting measures the separate West edition of the programme is to end. The Cambridge studios are due to close, with all broadcasts from that point returning to their pre-1997 region-wide format broadcast from the existing studios in Norwich. The Oxford
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edition of South Today
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Since 2000, an opt-out of the main program ...
will also be scrapped.
Broadcast times
On weekdays, ''BBC look East'' broadcasts six three-minute opt-outs during '' BBC Breakfast'' at 27 and 57 minutes past each hour. A fifteen-minute lunchtime programme follows at 13:30 before the main 27-minute edition at 18:30. A seven-minute late update is shown at 22:30, following the ''BBC News at Ten''. ''BBC Look East'' also airs three bulletins during the weekend: two early evening bulletins on Saturday and Sunday and a late night bulletin on Sundays, following the ''BBC News at Ten
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''. The times of these bulletins usually vary.
See also
*BBC News
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* ''ITV News Anglia
''ITV News Anglia'' is a British television news service for the East of England, broadcast and produced by ITV Anglia.
History
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References
External links
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