Anglia/East of England News Discussion

Anglia's news studio history is complex. In the late 80's, early 90's it moved into a new studio on the Anglia House site (called Studio F), in the part of the building that's now a estate agents. When they split the news service into two, they moved it to two more new studios in the former parking garage / ground floor of their Anglia Square site (now EPIC). When they decided to sell that site off, they moved it to two new studios created in the space that was the original Anglia House main studio (Studio A). Nowadays, they only use the one of these studios, but presumably the other half of the original studio is still available for use if needed.

Studio A was one of two large studios Anglia had (the other, Studio E, the largest of them all, was upstairs at the Anglia Square site). Programmes like Trisha used both spaces, so the sets were designed to fit into Studio A, which should give you an idea of the amount of space that originally existed.

Where was today's Sunday Politics East filmed?

It looks like a completely different set to where it normally comes from (Norwich).

I thought that Sunday Politics East's usual home has been the Cambridge studio, for ages now?

Definitely wasn't the Cambridge Studio that was used.

I looked at it and thought it could have been. If it wasn't Cambridge are they using the facilities used by the football programme (name alludes me)

But it IS the Cambridge studio? More often than not that's where the local part of the programme has been filmed for a good few years now - they just cover up the fake newsroom with the Sunday Politics green hills. They used to film it so they were in front of the rear projection screen and add some more Sunday Politics branded panels where the normal set ends but today they just shot it from the middle of the studio, and because of the way they positioned the guests it meant you saw a lot more of the left hand wall than you normally do on Look East.

Are you sure?

Last month...

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Today...

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And for those wondering what the Cambridge studio looks like for a normal bulletin.

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I thought they started the split news operation from the main Anglia House building, and only moved to Anglia Square site when they upgraded their production facilities from analogue composite to digital component in the mid-to-late 90s (and introduced a VR studio for the West?)

I don't know - if they did it will have been with one sub region pre-recorded (as today) because they didn't have the space at Anglia House for both to be live.

Ah - in the early 90s I was under the impression that the old About Anglia studio in Anglia House had been split in two to create two much smaller studios for the first iteration of Anglia News East and West, both live. I didn't think that was from Anglia Square.

I think that’s right, this was 1988/9 ish, during the IBA tenure. There was no way the IBA would’ve allowed the pre records of one sub region that occur today

You're correct. As shown and mentioned in this documentary.

Watch out for a young David Jennings and a young(ish) Stuart Jarrold.