BBC East
 .svg) BBC East's area within the UK |
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| TV transmitters |
Sandy Heath Sudbury Tacolneston |
|---|---|
| Radio stations |
BBC Radio Norfolk BBC Radio Suffolk BBC Essex BBC Radio Cambridgeshire BBC Radio Northampton BBC Three Counties Radio |
| Headquarters | Norwich |
| Area |
Norfolk Suffolk Essex Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire Bedfordshire Hertfordshire northern Buckinghamshire |
| Nation | BBC English Regions |
| Regions | East |
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Key people
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Mick Rawsthorne (Head of Regional & Local Programmes) |
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Launch date
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1959 |
BBC East is the BBC English Region serving Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and northern Buckinghamshire.
BBC East's television output (broadcast on BBC One) consists of its flagship regional news service BBC Look East, including an opt-out service for the west of the region, the topical magazine programme Inside Out, a 20-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics and football magazine show Late Kick Off (produced by the independent production company Kevin Piper Media).
The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Northampton and BBC Three Counties Radio.
On weekdays, all six stations open transmission at 4am with a networked overnight show before carrying local programming between 6am and 7pm. The stations carry further networked programming, together with hourly BBC News in the East bulletins, between 7pm and closedown at 1am each weeknight (with the exception of Three Counties Radio on Friday nights). The stations also simulcast on weekend evenings.
BBC East also produces regional news & local radio pages for BBC Red Button and the BBC Local News websites for each county.
BBC East was officially introduced as a region in 1969 after the Broadcasting in the Seventies report recommended the large Midlands and East Anglia region should be split into two. At this point, regional television news for the Eastern Counties had been long established with the first edition of Look East airing on 5 October 1959. During 1997, an opt-out service (originally titled Close Up) was introduced to provide local bulletins for Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Peterborough and Milton Keynes.
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