Anglia/East of England News Discussion

A couple or so years back, there was a late-afternoon incident on the M5 southbound near Bridgwater. The location itself being in "HTV" land, but clearly affecting e.g. commuters heading home to Devon.

A decision must've been taken by ITV West Country before 5pm to make parts of the programme live pan-regionally at 6pm, to provide the latest info on the developing situation. Something like the first 6 minutes and the last 2 minutes of the programme were live pan-regionally.

Therefore, whichever sub-region was the predominantly pre-recorded one that evening was only a 22-minute pre-record (of the "18:06 - 18:28" section of the programme only).

I wondered if Sandringham area was actually in the Belmont region? As nearby Hunstanton is isn't it?

Appreciate an overlap but assumed YTV must still cover it? At least on terrestrial

The strongest signal in that area is provided by Belmont. This is where the story of the three North Norfolk
BBC 1 and Anglia only relays emerges. One of the side effects of Belmont being reallocated to YTV in 1974, was north Norfolk suddenly were in the wrong ITV region. There were protests from viewers, backed by Anglia
and as a result, and as part of Anglia's new franchise agreement in 1982, three relays were built to provide
BBC 1 East and Anglia to these areas. BBC 2 and C4 were not carried, so viewers had to retain two aerials.
The Kings Lynn relay covers Sandringham.
There's a story the HM had also applied pressure to get 'East Region' news, dunno how true that is.

Since DSO the relays carry all three PSB muxes, so they are 'Freeview Lite' status.

I don't think there is any requirement for 'YTV' to cover the area, any more than Granada need to cover North Wales for example, but I suspect with the usual 'region stretching' on big stores they covered yesteday's accident ?

Belmont BBC 1 was in the 'North Region' since in opened in 1966. Of course 66-68 it carried regional programmes from Manchester

FWIW http://tx.mb21.co.uk/features/belmont/index.shtml

Oops.. From the evening news bulletin tonight..

Looks like they accidentally used an earlier take/rehearsal of the headline sequence instead of the final one.

Love it... you tell him Susie. No apologies just straight in and no name straps either!

I’ve watched Anglia’s news in the past few weeks (having changed the region on Freesat) and have been impressed with their presentation compared with my native region, Central.

Anglia used a kitchen area for presentation a couple of days ago for their men’s health series and have used another studio space for a couple of features this week. Have they always used these other areas for presentation?

Oooh yes they have been making a bit of an effort recently! A lot of the regions seem to have got some form of camera op for their 6pm bulletins now to help make things look a bit less dull and static, but not many (as I was saying in another thread recently) still have the space for much more than that. As you mentioned, Anglia made use of Studio 2 for a segment with an astronomer a few days back - last time they used it I think is when they got their current set fitted, before that I'm not sure that it'd have been used regularly since they did separate live editions for the East and West!

Which can be seen here:

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-01-24/mark-thompson-tv-astronomer-brings-his-science-show-to-the-itv-news-anglia-studio/

I think they might have played the Anglia West forecast for the Anglia East 8:10 opt out. No sign of Norwich or anything.

I've noticed the late Look East bulletin have recently been using some dodgy darkened versions of the usual graphics on the screens and as backgrounds to full screen graphics but yesterday they seemed to have managed to make it somehow worse?

They've added a huge LATE to the graphics, invited some "modern"(?) graphic with LATE in what I think is a different font and decided to do the weather from the sofa for some reason. All a bit odd and ugly.

Definitely seems a bit odd, but a bit refreshing to see something different. I dont mind the darkened graphics used, though paired with the modern-like rectangular graphics seems a bit mix and match, doesn't suit well together.

The titles are a whole different story, 3 seconds and a very noticeable cut in the audio, that's a no from me, might as well do away with that entirely lol.

Will be keeping an eye out and see if its the same for tonight's late bulletin.