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Anglia (East) Meridian (East) Norfolk, Suffolk, eastern and northern Essex
[citation needed] In the 1630s, thousands of Puritan families from East Anglia emigrated to New England in America, taking much East Anglian culture with them that can still be traced today. [16] [page needed] East Anglia based much of its earnings on wool, textiles, and arable farming and was a rich area of England until the Industrial ...
This was the main base for BBC East's radio operations from 1956 until 1980, and its television output from 1959 to 2003. Until 1980, regional radio programming was provided by an East Anglia opt-out on BBC Radio 4, consisting largely of daytime news bulletins and a weekday breakfast show, Roundabout East Anglia. The first BBC Local Radio ...
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
Still, East Anglia is a region of great natural beauty and cultural richness, and it’s something of a mystery why the region has remained so firmly off the tourist radar for so long.
The bulletin was extended to twenty minutes in September 1962 and renamed East Anglia at Six, and then a year later renamed East at Six Ten due to a change in timeslot. Another change in timeslot saw it renamed as Look East from 28 September 1964, [ 2 ] although that evening's programme failed to go out due to a breakdown and Look East instead ...
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 ...
In 1980, Anglia successfully retained the franchise after defeating a challenge from East of England TV, who wished to operate from Cambridge. [11] In addition, the IBA bowed to public pressure from 70,000 viewers in northern parts of Norfolk who were served by Yorkshire Television via the Belmont Transmitter; many of the viewers had gone to "considerable trouble and expense" to receive Anglia ...