ITV News Anglia

'ITV News Anglia is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Anglia, serving the East of England and parts of the East Midlands and South East England. The programme is usually broadcast at 18.00 every weeknight; other bulletins are branded as Anglia News.

Broadcast times
ITV News Anglia  airs on ITV Anglia seven days a week.

On weekdays, three short bulletins are broadcast during Daybreak at 6:07am, 7:05am and 8:05am with a six-minute lunchtime bulletin at 1:55pm, following the ITV News at 1:30. The main half-hour programme airs at 6pm with a late bulletin for both Anglia sub-regions at 10:30pm, following the ITV News at Ten.

At weekends, two 15-minute editions of ITV News Anglia are broadcast - one later on Saturday afternoons and another on Sunday evenings.

About Anglia
About Anglia was the original local news magazine programme transmitted by Anglia Television from 1960, with Dick Joice the original presenter was. 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

Anglia News
1990: Anglia news begin On Monday, July 09, 1990 providing 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. Costing £3million to implement and with a presentation team of 36 journalists across eight news centres, then-Director of News at Anglia, Jim Wilson, explains to viewers:

"We feel that the two halves of the Anglia region... are distinctly different areas with different interests and different sorts of communities, and we think now is the time to produce two distinctively different programmes which concentrate on the issues and the events which are close to people in those the two separate areas. We want people to identify much more closely with the programmes than perhaps they have been able to in the past ... and we want to give a service which identifies closely with them." The presenting team on the Anglia News East programme, transmitted from the Tacolneston and Sudbury transmitters, are John Francis, Fenella Haddingham and Helen McDermott; while the hosts on the Anglia News West programme, transmitted from the Sandy Heath transmitter, are Stephen Chambers, Caroline Oldrey and Richard Swallow.

1996 A new look was introduced.

1999 Another New look was introduced and the Anglia News is moved to 6pm from March. 2001: April sees a revision to the set and presentation of Anglia News.

2003: A briefly-lived rebrand for Anglia News appears on-screen on 22 September. This new look marks the retitling of the 18.00 programme as Anglia News Tonight. The set introduced as part of the rebrand remains intact, albeit redecorated, after the imminent graphics relaunch in five months' time. 2004: A new graphics package is launched on Anglia News on 2 February, coinciding with the launch of new presentation for ITV's networked news and the regional news programmes of stations now under the control of ITV plc. From this date, the 18.00 bulletin uses the name Anglia Tonight, with other bulletins retaining the Anglia News title.

2005: Anglia is one of the last ITV regions to introduce the now-standard set design for ITV plc-owned local news stations, revealing its sets on the East and West editions on 5 December. Viewers of Anglia Tonight in the Western part of the region see their evening bulletins broadcast from the Norwich newsroom in the weeks leading up to the new set. 2006: On the day ITV rolls out its new logo across its entire portfolio of channels, a new presentation package is introduced to Anglia Tonight; including new opening titles and graphics templates. In a nod to its past, a scene in the opening titles depicts schoolchildren in the region painting the former Anglia station symbol: the silver knight on horseback.

2007: Along with most remaining ITV regional news programmes, Anglia News switches its broadcasts to 16:9. In the same year, proposals to merge the separate services back into one region-wide programme, as part of a plan to reduce network operating costs.[17] 2009: The main East and West Anglia News programmes are reunited on 12 February. Only a brief opt-out during the programme, discrete weather forecasts and the entire late weekday bulletins remain from the individual services. Anglia News goes on to update its on-air presentation on 8 December, in line with other ITV plc-owned stations.

2013 On Monday 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as ITV News Anglia. . In febuary ITV proposals a number of changes to the regional new series across the ITV,


 * Under these proposals there is a significant increase in news minutes devoted mainly to the sub-region
 * Currently the majority of ITV’s regional news output in the Anglia region covers the whole of the region stretching from the borders with south Yorkshire and the east Midlands to the North Sea Coast and the Thames estuary
 * Under these proposals all ITV news in Anglia will be sub-regionalised
 * News broadcast to Anglia East will be predominantly about events and issues in that part of the region though there will be some reduction in minutage overall.
 * Some big stories and coverage of major issues that apply through out the whole region would still be included e.g. stories about health service reforms, schools reorganisation, coverage of significant events and incidents
 * On any given night, the Anglia East or West sub-regional programme would be recorded shortly before transmission. The ability to be pan-regional for all or part of the programme always allows us to be live if the editorial needs of the programme demand it, for instance in the case of an unfolding event.
 * In rare and exceptional cases a whole programme might be shared across the whole of the region when the topics being covered are relevant everywhere e.g. reporting the impact of bad weather as in the winters of 2010 and 2011 or the outcome of major trial

Current on air team
N.B. Persons marked with an asterisk are also a stand-in presenter/newsreader.

Presenters

 * News presenters
 * Becky Jago – Main presenter/newsreader
 * Jonathan Wills – Main presenter/newsreader


 * Weather presenters
 * Amanda Houston
 * Claire McGlasson (also news correspondent)
 * Alice Piper (also production specialist)

Correspondents

 * District Correspondents
 * Emma Baker – Cambridgeshire *
 * Stuart Leithes – Peterborough
 * Kate Prout – Bedfordshire
 * Malcolm Robertson – Norfolk
 * Serena Sandhu – Essex


 * News Correspondents
 * Megan Boot *
 * Karen Dallas *
 * Luke Farrington *
 * David Golley
 * Natalie Gray *
 * Lauren Hall
 * Russell Hookey *
 * David Hughes *
 * Victoria Lampard
 * Olivia Paterson *
 * Hannah Pettifer *
 * Kate Prout


 * Specialist Correspondents
 * Donovan Blake – Sport
 * Elodie Harper – Education, Social Affairs *
 * Matthew Hudson – Business
 * Emma Hutchinson – Political
 * Jim Rice – Sport

Former presenters
Many About Anglia personalities moved on to national prominence.


 * Judy Finnegan came to Anglia in the mid-1970s from Granada Television as a reporter and presenter. She married and settled in Norwich, making her name in 1977 when she gave birth to twin sons and, the following day, proudly showed off the babies on About Anglia. She left to return to Granada as co-host of Granada Reports.


 * Bob Wellings, well known for covering quirky offbeat stories on About Anglia, became a presenter of BBC Television’s current affairs Nationwide programme during 1971-79.


 * Alastair Yates joined About Anglia in 1987 following a period with Grampian Television's North Tonight, but left two years later to become the first presenter on Sky News in Britain.


 * Patrick Anthony
 * Rebecca Atherstone
 * Jim Bacon
 * John Bacon
 * Greg Barnes
 * Paul Barnes
 * Louise Beale (5 News)
 * Sarah Beecroft
 * Surrey Beddowes
 * Graham Bell (deceased)
 * Simon Brant
 * David Beake
 * David Brooks
 * Griselda Cann
 * Stephen Chambers
 * Tim Curtis
 * Andy Cutcher
 * Patrick Davies
 * Timothy Evans
 * Charlotte Fisher


 * John Francis
 * Katie Glass
 * Jeremy Hands (deceased)
 * Jerry Harmer
 * Gerry Harrison
 * Philippa Heap
 * Karl Heidel
 * Wendy Hurrell (BBC London)
 * Ross Hutchinson (ITV Tyne Tees & Border)
 * Stuart Jarrold (freelancer)
 * Paul Phillips
 * Ellie Price (freelancer)
 * Phil Johnson
 * Rebecca Jones (Sky News)
 * Stephen Lee
 * Verity Lines
 * Rachel Mackley (BBC South East)
 * Becky Mantin (ITV Weather)
 * Helen McDermott (BBC Radio Norfolk)
 * Cathy McNair


 * Greg Milam (Sky News)
 * Rhiannon Mills (Sky News)
 * Clare Nasir (freelancer with ITV London)
 * Simon Newton
 * Caroline Oldrey
 * Nick Quarishi
 * Alpa Patel (BBC News)
 * Gordon Radley (Sky News)
 * Lorna Ramsey
 * Steve Rider
 * Sally Williams (nee Rourke; ITV London)
 * Owen Spencer-Thomas
 * Richard Swallow
 * Emma Thomas
 * Sara Thornton (BBC Weather)
 * Bhavani Vadde (freelancer)
 * Clare Weller
 * Sascha Williams (freelance journalist)
 * Alastair Yates