BBC East

BBC East is the BBC English Region serving Norfolk, Suffolk, north Essex, Cambridgeshire, northern and central Hertfordshire, most of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and parts of Buckinghamshire.

Services

Television

BBC East's television output (broadcast on BBC One) consists of its flagship regional news service BBC Look East, including an opt-out for the west of the region, the topical magazine programme Inside Out, a 20-minute opt-out during the weekly Politics Show and football magazine show Late Kick Off (produced by the independent production company Kevin Piper Media).

Radio

The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Suffolk 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 (and in some cases, also simulcast with BBC Radio Lincolnshire).

Online and Interactive

BBC East also produces regional news & local radio pages for Ceefax, BBC Red Button and the BBC Local News websites for each county.

History

BBC East as a region got underway in 1969 when the large BBC Midlands and East Anglia regon was...
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