Anglia News replaced the long-running news magazine programme
About Anglia on Monday, 9 July 1990. Initially, there were two sub-regional editions for the
East (
Norfolk,
Suffolk and
Essex), and
West (
Cambridgeshire,
Northamptonshire,
Bedfordshire, northern
Hertfordshire, northern
Buckinghamshire (including the
City of Milton Keynes), southern
Lincolnshire, southern
Rutland and a small part of southern
Leicestershire). The main programme title was amended to
Anglia News Tonight in September 2003 however just five months later in February 2004 it was simplified to
Anglia Tonight. Both editions were broadcast from
Norwich. By 2008,
Anglia News opts during
GMTV and weekend bulletins had become pan-regional. As of 12 February 2009, all programming on weekdays became pan-regional. The final sub-regional 6pm editions of
Anglia Tonight were broadcast on Wednesday 11 February 2009.
Becky Jago and
Jonathan Wills anchored the programme in 2012. The then remaining sub-regional elements were: • A 6-minute opt-out during the main 6pm programme. • The full 8-minute late weeknight bulletins. • Localised weather forecasts. Both sub-regional editions utilise exactly the same presenter(s) and studio/set, therefore one of the two opt-outs - depending on the day's news - is pre-recorded 'as live' shortly before broadcast. On Monday, 14 January 2013, the service was relaunched and renamed as
ITV News Anglia. On 23 July 2013, proposals for a more localised Channel 3 news service were approved -
ITV News Anglia reintroduced separate East and West programmes with a minimum of 20 minutes local news content during the half hour 6pm programme, in addition to separate weekday daytime and weekend bulletins for the two sub-regions. The expanded sub-regional service launched on Monday 16 September 2013. ==References==