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BBC East

Headquarters	Norwich
Broadcast area	Norfolk, Suffolk, northern Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, southern Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, southern Lincolnshire
Nation	BBC English Regions
TV Transmitters	Sandy Heath Sudbury Tacolneston
Radio Stations in this area	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire BBC Essex BBC Radio Northampton BBC Radio Norfolk BBC Radio Suffolk BBC Three Counties Radio
Key people	Tim Bishop (Head of Regional & Local Programmes)

BBC East is the BBC English Region serving Norfolk, Suffolk, north Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, south Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and south Lincolnshire.

Television

BBC East's television output (broadcast on BBC One) consists of its flagship regional news service BBC Look East (including an opt-out service for the West of the region), the topical magazine programme Inside Out, a 20-minute opt-out during the weekly Politics Show and football magazine show Late Kick Off.

Radio

The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Suffolk and BBC Three Counties Radio.

On weekdays, all six stations open transmission at 4am with a networked overnight show before carrying local programming between 5am and 7pm. The stations carry further networked programming, together with hourly BBC News in the East bulletins, between 7pm and closedown at 1am each weeknight (with the exception of Three Counties Radio on Friday nights). The stations also simulcast on weekend evenings (and in some cases, also simulcast with BBC Radio Lincolnshire).

Other services

BBC East also produces regional news & local radio pages for Ceefax and local BBC Where I Live websites for each county.

Studios

The headquarters for the region and the main studios for Look East are located at The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich. BBC East also has television studios at the offices of Radio Cambridgeshire, which have recently re-located to a new multi-million pound centre at the Cambridge Business Park, on Cowley Road in the city. From here, Look East broadcasts its opt-out service on weekdays to the viewers in the west of the region (Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire). Local radio studios and television bureaux are also located in Chelmsford, Northampton, Ipswich, Luton and Milton Keynes.

See also

BBC portal

• BBC English Regions

External links

• Where I Live at BBC Online
• BBC Look East at BBC Online