![]() ![]() Like Look East, Roundabout East Anglia also broadcast from BBC East's regional headquarters at All Saint's Green in Norwich. However, this had a larger editorial area than any BBC local station, being heard across the same region as the BBC's Look East regional television news programme. įor several years until the launch of Radio Norfolk, BBC East had broadcast a morning radio programme, Roundabout East Anglia, a regional opt-out from the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. The IBA got Devon and appointed DevonAir Radio. This was settled by the toss of a coin, the BBC winning and choosing Norfolk. ![]() Due to the policy of launching only one local radio service at a time in a particular area, when it came to choosing whether Norfolk or Devon would receive a BBC or commercial station first, there was contention between the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) as to who would get which area. ![]() It was the first BBC local station in East Anglia and the first after a gap of several years in the corporation's local radio development, due to the Government's review of local radio (both BBC and independent services) in the late 1970s. BBC Radio Norfolk was based on its ground floor from 1980 until 2003.īBC Radio Norfolk launched at 5:55pm on 11 September 1980. ![]() Norfolk Tower on Surrey Street in Norwich. ![]()
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