Anglia Television

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Anglia Television is the ITV station for East Anglia, which has been broadcasting since 27 October 1959. The station is based in Norwich, with regional news bureaux in Ipswich, Chelmsford, Peterborough, Cambridge, Luton, Milton Keynes and Northampton.

[edit] Identity

Anglia's original ident was a short film of a rotating silver statue of a knight on horseback. At the end, the camera zoomed in on the pennon atop the knight's lance, which showed the station's name. An arrangement, by Malcolm Sargent, of Handel's Water Music was played over the film. The Anglia knight logo became so closely identified with the station that when, in 1999, the station produced a book to mark its fortieth anniversary, it was entitled A Knight On The Box (ISBN 0-906836-40-9).

With the introduction of colour television in the 1970s, the ident was remade with constant lighting, and the knight constantly rotating as though on a turntable. In 1988 the knight was replaced by a quasi-heraldic stylised 'A' made of triangles, which faded in and out on a fluttering flag during continuity announcements.

In 2002, as with all companies now owned by ITV plc, the station lost its separate identity, becoming branded as ITV Anglia.

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[edit] Ownership

Anglia was an independent corporation for much of its existence. In 1994, it was bought by MAI, who were themselves later acquired by United News and Media, and then in 2000 by Granada. In 2004, Granada merged with Carlton to form ITV plc, which ended Anglia's existence as a separate brand. During its period of UBM ownership, a 'youth' channel was launched to cable and satellite from Anglia's facilities, Rapture TV; some productions for the ITV network were also shared with Rapture, which was retained by UBM after the sale to Granada, but later closed down and its assets sold.

In 1993, the station took over the cartoon studio Cosgrove Hall, when it was sold off by its original owners, Thames Television.

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[edit] Productions

Some of Anglia's notable contributions to the national television network include:

• Alternative 3
• Animal Cops Detroit - a show no longer in production, but which was made in Norwich for Discovery/Animal Planet in America
• Animal Cops Houston - a show made in Norwich for Discovery/Animal Planet in America
• Animal Cops San Francisco - a show no longer in production, but which was made in Norwich for Discovery/Animal Planet in America
• Animal Planet Heroes Phoenix - a show made in Norwich for Discovery/Animal Planet in America
• Animal Precinct - a show made in Norwich for Discovery/Animal Planet in America
• Farming Diary - not a networked programme, but this was the agricultural programme chosen by Yorkshire Television for their region.
• Gambit
• Heirloom
• Knightmare
• Lucky Ladders
• Match of the Week - the first ITV programme to screen highlights of an English league football match.
• Mouthtrap
• Sale of the Century
• Show Me
• Survival
• Sweethearts
• Tales of the Unexpected
• The Zodiac Game
• Trisha
• Vanessa
• Weavers Green

[edit] Local News

• Anglia Tonight - previously About Anglia

[edit] Slogans used

• This is Anglia Television broadcasting to the East of England on channels 6, 7 & 11, from the Sandy Heath, Belmont & Mendlesham transmitters of the Independent Television Authority
• This is Anglia Television broadcasting a full colour service in the East of England from the transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority

[edit] External links

• itv.com - ITV Anglia
• Some screen captures: later years
• Video of Anglia idents
• The story of the knight logo
• A history of Anglia
• The design of the triangle ident

Categories: ITV franchisees | Media companies of the United Kingdom | Communications in the United Kingdom | 1959 establishments