Breakfast television
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Breakfast television is a type of television programme broadcast live in the morning (typically between 6:00am and 9:00am), with the express purpose of being watched by people getting ready to go to work.
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Format and style
Template:Journalism Primarily breakfast television prepares people for the day ahead and thus normally features regular (every half hour or so) news, weather and travel reports. The time in between is filled with more depth on major news stories, features, reviews of the day's papers and often business news, such as information about the stock market.
Despite these programmes often being produced by news organisations, their style is geared toward popularity and demographic appeal. Traditionally they are fronted by two presenters (one male, one female) on a sofa surrounded by a warmly coloured (but not overwhelming) set.
History
The world's first breakfast television programme was The Today Show on the US network NBC which began broadcasting on January 14 1952. Many other channels all around the world followed NBC's lead.
In the UK, ITV (now ITV1) considered breakfast television so important that it created an entire franchise for it (to go with the regional franchises that broadcast for the rest of the day). This franchise was awarded to TV-am. However, delays to TV-am's launch meant that the BBC were able to launch their own programme, Breakfast Time on January 17 1983. TV-am, with Daybreak and Good Morning Britain being its flagship programmes, launched just two weeks later on February 1 1983. TV-am found it hard to survive at first, due to a reliance on advertising income from a timeslot where people were not accustomed to watching television. However, it eventually flourished, only to lose its licence, from 1993 onwards, to GMTV who outbid them.
Today, breakfast television is an established part of many people's lives and a popular way to start the day.
Breakfast television programmes
The following is a list of breakfast television programmes, past and present, ordered by country:
Australia
- Today (Nine Network, 1982-)
- Sunrise (Seven Network, 2000-)
Brazil
Canada
- Breakfast Television (Citytv) (#1 Morning Show)
- The Big Breakfast (A-Channel)
- Canada AM (CTV, 1972-)
- CBC News Morning (CBC, CBC Newsworld)
- several locally-produced programs on affiliates of Global, CH and NewNet
Chile
- Tres por tres (Canal 13)
- En boca de todos (Canal 13)
- En Portada (RED Televisión)
- Meganoticias (edición matinal) (MEGA)
- Buenos días a todos TVN
- El diario de Eva (Chilevisión)
- Chilevisión Noticias (edición matinal) (Chilevisión)
Mexico
United Kingdom
- The Big Breakfast (Channel 4, 1992-2002)
- Breakfast (BBC One, 2000-)
- Breakfast News (BBC One, 1989-2000)
- Breakfast Time (BBC One, 1983-1989)
- Channel 4 Daily (Channel 4, 1989-1992)
- Daybreak (ITV1/TV-am, 1983)
- GMTV (ITV1/GMTV, 1993-2003)
- GMTV Newshour (ITV1/GMTV, 1993-)
- GMTV Today (ITV1/GMTV, 2003-)
- Good Morning Britain (ITV1/TV-am, 1983-1992)
- RI:SE (Channel 4, 2002-2003)
United States
- American Morning (CNN)
- Calendar (CBS, 1961-1965)
- CBS Morning (CBS, 1981-1987)
- CBS This Morning (CBS, 1987-1999)
- CBS Morning News, (CBS, 1963-)
- The Early Show, (CBS, 1999-)
- Good Morning (CBS, 1956-1958)
- Good Morning America (ABC, 1975-; originally A.M. America)
- The Morning Program (CBS, January 12-November 27, 1987)
- The Morning Show (CBS, 1954-1956)
- Today (NBC, 1952-)
- Early Today (NBC, 1982-; known between 1983 and 1999 as NBC News at Sunrise)
- Later Today (NBC, 1999-2000)
- several locally-produced programs on affiliates of Fox, UPN and The WB
Venezuela
External links
- Breakfast TV Site (http://www.telebyte.nl/~wieten/breakfast.htm)