BBC Look East BBC Look East Look East is the BBC's regional television news programme for the East of England. The first BBC television news bulletins for the East of England began on 5 October 1959. These bulletins were only three minutes in length. The programme was extended to 10 minutes in 1962 and named "East Anglia at Six Ten", and then in 1964 to 20 minutes and renamed "Look East". "Look East" is broadcast from BBC East's headquarters at The Forum, Norwich. Prior to 29 September 2003, the programme aired from studios in St Catherine's Close, Norwich. The programme can be watched
BBC fiercely opposed by unions, who have threatened a series of strikes; however, the BBC have stated that the cuts are essential to move the organisation forward and concentrate on increasing the quality of programming. On 20 October 2010, the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that the television licence fee would be frozen at its current level until the end of the current charter in 2016. The same announcement revealed that the BBC would take on the full cost of running the BBC World Service and the BBC Monitoring service from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and partially finance