About Anglia was the original local news magazine programme transmitted by Anglia Television from 1960. Its original presenter was Dick Joice.
The programme was transmitted throughout the Anglia region which comprised Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire and south and east Yorkshire. From 1 January 1974, Lincolnshire and parts of Yorkshire and North Norfolk were transferred to Yorkshire Television.
About Anglia was given a new modern look in the spring of 1988 when Anglia Television abandoned its original ident, a small silver statue of a knight on horseback.
Two years later, About Anglia was replaced by Anglia News - a dual news service which transmitted two separate programmes, Anglia News East for viewers in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex & parts of Cambridgeshire and Anglia News West for viewers in Northants, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, most of Cambridgeshire and overlap areas of South Lincolnshire.
Both services were produced and broadcast from the main studios at Anglia House in Norwich (long before this practice was rolled out as standard across the ITV regional news services) with reporters based at newsrooms in Cambridge, Ipswich, Chelmsford, Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes and Luton, along with a political base at Westminster. Major cutbacks in 2009 led to the reintroduction of a pan-regional programme (now known as Anglia Tonight) with shorter sub-regional opt outs.
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