God, it's depressing seeing this. I worked for Anglia from '69 - '77, before heading off around the ITV network, eventually going freelance. - and it's rather awful to be reminded of that franchise restructuring, and how eventually all the wonderful distinctive ITV companies surrendered their Idents and identities, to become, simply, ITV. I think those of us who worked for these companies prior to that, will always feel that we enjoyed, and experienced ITV's golden years...!

Beginning of the end of regional ITV... ironic in this piece it states studios and production would be retained.... in the modern ITV of 2016 Anglia's studios are now half in size, just retaining a couple of small news studios for local news and a newsroom.... very sad :-(

6.5 mins of Anglia on Anglia. Ultra-indulgent! Not sure viewers from Lowestoft to Luton would have been that bothered about share prices and ad revenues frankly. They would just have wanted to know that the Anglia name was staying (it did)

I am from the Meridian region, but this was when ITV started dying. Regional companies taking over other ones is no longer Independent Television. Might have well renamed it at this point, let alone when Granada and Carlton merged.

Well, it wouldn't last long anyway. The box had been opened and we were heading toward an inevitable slide to a single itv. They were dreaming if they thought this would bring more work to Anglia studios.

This was when the 1990 Broadcasting Act began to rear it's head.

Meridian also aired TV Weekly at that time.

Just be thankful Anglia Television was not bought by Carlton - Carlton pissed over all regions they bought, just look at how they treat Central Television and Westcountry Television wise.