BBC East of Richard Robinson. The first television news bulletin for the east from St Catherine's Close was broadcast on 5 October 1959. These initial bulletins were only three minutes per night, but in 1962 were extended to ten minutes and the bulletins named "East Anglia at Six Ten". In 1964, the programme was extended to 20 minutes in length and renamed "Look East", a title the programme still goes under today. The Norwich-based operation was initially a satellite of the larger BBC Midland region, based in Birmingham. East Anglia was given greater autonomy within the BBC in 1969 after the "Broadcasting
BBC Studios income received through the licence fee. In exchange, the BBC agreed to tender its current programming to allow third-party independent studios to produce them on behalf of the BBC. The formal establishment of BBC Studios as a commercial entity occurred in April 2017. In April 2018, BBC Worldwide was merged into the company, to make it both a distributor and producer of programmes, in line with other major multinational studio conglomerates. BBC News and BBC Radio remain separate internal production divisions in the BBC (although BBC Radio Comedy is part of Studios), and the rest of the former BBC Television