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BBC Look East
	; Look East titles
Format	Regional News
Presented by	Stewart White; Susie Fowler-Watt; (Main anchors); Julie Reinger; (Weather presenter)
Production
Producer(s)	BBC East
Running time	Main bulletin:; 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One East
Original run	1959 – present

BBC Look East is the BBC's regional television news programme for the BBC East region, covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, north Buckinghamshire and southern Lincolnshire.

The programme began on October 5th 1959,^[1] making it the longest-running regional news programme on the BBC. It is broadcast on BBC One from its studio in The Forum, Norwich (where BBC Radio Norfolk is also based) and from Hills Road, Cambridge (where BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is also based).

Look East moved to The Forum on 29 September 2003, having previously been based in St Catherine's Close, Norwich.

The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on Sky Digital channel 981, and channel 982 for the "west" sub-regional service from Cambridge, on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. The services were added to the Sky Digital platform on 29 July 2003. The availability of these services resolved part of the problems caused by the geography of the area that meant some viewers in North Norfolk could see BBC Look North (Hull), while viewers in Kings Lynn saw the wrong sub-region of Look East.

In 1997 Look East launched the sub-regional service, Close Up, for viewers in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, north Buckinghamshire, and Northamptonshire. The opt allows the two sub-regions to provide, during the main evening programme, around 10 minutes of news more relevant to their area. After the BBC News at Ten on weeknights, both the East and West of the region receive fully separate editions of Look East from Norwich and Cambridge respectively. Both editions of the programme can be received on Sky Digital, on channels 981 and 982.

On the 7th of December 2009 the studio in Norwich received a make-over, which makes it look more like the normal BBC News studio. Also, the West opt received a similar make-over, and is now homed in the same building as Radio Cambridgeshire.

[edit] Presenters

[edit] Main presenters

Stewart White

Susie Fowler-Watt

[edit] Weather presenter

Julie Reinger

[edit] Other presenters

Carol Bundock (Weekend)
Amanda Goodman (Cambridge opt-out)
Jenny Kirk (Breakfast bulletins)
Mariam Issimdar (Breakfast bulletins)
Louise Priest (Breakfast and 3pm bulletins)

Janine Machin (Cambridge opt-out)
Amelia Reynolds
Mike Liggins (Cambridge opt-out )
Alex Dunlop (lunch, late night and 3pm bulletins)
Dawn Gerber (3pm bulletins)
Mike Cartwright
Anjana Gadgill

[edit] Previous presenters

Penny Bustin
Tom Edwards
Jayne Evans
Madeline Holt
Judi Lines

Ian Masters
Michelle Newman
Susan Osman(Now with BBC Points West)
Ian White (Now with BBC Look North)

[edit] TV News via E-mail

In February 2008, Look East became the first TV news bulletin in the UK to launch a daily e-mail version of the programme. More than a promotional tool, it contains an average of 60 links to recently updated regional news, weather and sport in a number of formats. Most of the main news items which appear on the TV programme are displayed on this newsletter, which also previews that evening's programme, expands on stories and features other local BBC services.

[edit] See also

BBC portal

[edit] References

^ "News in Brief". The Times: p. 7. October 6th 1959.

[edit] External links

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[0] "News in Brief". The Times: p. 7. October 6th 1959.

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