ITV Anglia

ITV Anglia, also called Anglia Television, is the ITV station for the East of England. It is located at Anglia House in Norwich. The station has news offices in Cambridge and Northampton. ITV Anglia is owned by ITV plc.

ITV Anglia shows programmes for Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, northern Hertfordshire, northern Buckinghamshire and parts of Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. One of its main shows is ITV News Anglia. This news programme has two versions and airs at 18:00 on weekdays and at different times on weekends.

History

Further information: Timeline of Anglia Television

Anglia Television began broadcasting on 27 October 1959 as a station for the East of England. It was the eleventh station to go on air under the ITA. Anglia made popular shows like the nature series Survival and worked with London’s Associated-Rediffusion to make drama programs.

Over the years, Anglia faced changes such as losing a transmitter and changing its schedule. In the 1980s, it kept its broadcasting rights and started service all day and night in 1987. By the 1990s, Anglia made regional news programs and worked with American companies to produce films. Eventually, Anglia became part of ITV plc in 2004, and its separate brand ended. Though it no longer makes many national shows, Anglia’s old studio still works on programs for other channels.

Studios

ITV Anglia’s main office is at Anglia House in Norwich. This building has four studios and many offices. In the late 1970s, Anglia bought an old bowling alley in Magdalen Street and made another studio there called ‘Studio E’. Bigger shows and the news program moved there in 1999, but smaller local shows stayed at Anglia House.

Later, after ITV plc took over, Anglia didn’t need so many studios. In 2006, they sold the Magdalen Street studios to Norfolk County Council. The place became EPIC, a center to help small creative businesses. Studio E, where the show Trisha was filmed, can now be rented by anyone. Anglia News moved back to a new, modern studio at Anglia House.

Identity

Anglia Television began with a special logo showing a knight on horseback. This logo was very popular, and a book about the station’s history was even called A Knight On The Box.

Later, the knight logo was replaced by a new design that looked like the letter “A” made of triangles. Eventually, Anglia stopped using its own logo and began using the ITV1 brand instead.

Programmes

Many old shows from Anglia are saved at the East Anglian Film Archive. Some popular shows like The Way We Were, Bygones, and Anglia At War have been made into DVDs. In 2009, a collection of the first years of Anglia TV's local news called Here Was the News was released.

Some of Anglia’s most popular shows included:

• Survival (1961–2001)
• Bygones (1967–89)
• Sale of the Century (1971–83)
• Gambit (1975–85, 1995)
• Backs to the Land (1977–78)
• Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
• Birthday Club (1980–2002)
• Miss Morison's Ghosts (1981)
• Ten adaptations of the Adam Dalgliesh novels of P. D. James (1983–98)
• The Zodiac Game (1984–85)
• Marjorie and Men (1985)
• Inside Story (1986)
• A Killing on the Exchange (1987)
• Cause Célèbre (1987)
• Knightmare (1987–94)
• Menace Unseen (1988)
• Lucky Ladders (1988–1993)
• A Quiet Conspiracy (1989)
• Anything More Would Be Greedy (1989)
• Goldeneye (1989)
• The Chief (1990–95)
• Jumble (1991–92)
• Chimera (1991)
• Growing Rich (1992)
• A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992)
• Framed (1992)
• Jilly Cooper's Riders (1993)
• My Good Friend (1995–96)
• Jilly Cooper's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997)
• Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment (1997–2000)
• Where the Heart Is (1997–2001)
• Touching Evil (1997–99)
• Ain't Misbehavin' (1997)
• Trisha (1998–2004)
• Animal Cops (2002–2018)
• A Line in the Sand (2004)