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BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme
Breakfast television

Breakfast television or Morning show is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast Live television in the morning . Often hosted by a small 'team' of male and female hosts, morning shows typically marketing the combined demographic of people getting ready for work, and stay-at-home adults and parents....
 simulcast on BBC One
BBC One

BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
 and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre
BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre in West London, sometimes abbreviated to TVC, TC or TV Centre, is the headquarters of BBC Television. The greater part of the BBC's television output comes from here, as well as, in more recent years, that of BBC Radio 5 Live and, since 1998, that of most of the corporation's national BBC News service....
 in White City
BBC White City

BBC White City refers both to a collection of BBC buildings at Wood Lane, White City, London in west London, and an office building opened in 1990 within that collection of buildings....
, West London
West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items. The programme is broadcast seven days a week, every week of the year, including weekends and public holidays, which are presented from the BBC News channel set.

Alison Ford, previously the UK Editor for BBC Newsgathering, is the current Editor of the programme, following the departure of David Kermode to Five News
Five News

Five News is the news programme of British broadcaster Five . It is produced by Sky News.From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Five, replacing ITN, which had provided the channel's news service from the channel's launch in 1997....
.

programme was originally called Breakfast Time
Breakfast Time

Breakfast Time was British television's first national breakfast show, beating ITV's TV-am to the air by two weeks.The show was revolutionary for the time....
 and was conceived as the BBC's answer to ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
's plans for breakfast television.






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BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme
Breakfast television

Breakfast television or Morning show is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast Live television in the morning . Often hosted by a small 'team' of male and female hosts, morning shows typically marketing the combined demographic of people getting ready for work, and stay-at-home adults and parents....
 simulcast on BBC One
BBC One

BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
 and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre
BBC Television Centre

BBC Television Centre in West London, sometimes abbreviated to TVC, TC or TV Centre, is the headquarters of BBC Television. The greater part of the BBC's television output comes from here, as well as, in more recent years, that of BBC Radio 5 Live and, since 1998, that of most of the corporation's national BBC News service....
 in White City
BBC White City

BBC White City refers both to a collection of BBC buildings at Wood Lane, White City, London in west London, and an office building opened in 1990 within that collection of buildings....
, West London
West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items. The programme is broadcast seven days a week, every week of the year, including weekends and public holidays, which are presented from the BBC News channel set.

Alison Ford, previously the UK Editor for BBC Newsgathering, is the current Editor of the programme, following the departure of David Kermode to Five News
Five News

Five News is the news programme of British broadcaster Five . It is produced by Sky News.From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Five, replacing ITN, which had provided the channel's news service from the channel's launch in 1997....
.

History

The programme was originally called Breakfast Time
Breakfast Time

Breakfast Time was British television's first national breakfast show, beating ITV's TV-am to the air by two weeks.The show was revolutionary for the time....
 and was conceived as the BBC's answer to ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
's plans for breakfast television. Breakfast Time
Breakfast Time

Breakfast Time was British television's first national breakfast show, beating ITV's TV-am to the air by two weeks.The show was revolutionary for the time....
 was first on the air. This show was broadcast on 17 January 1983 with Frank Bough
Frank Bough

Frank Bough is a United Kingdom television presenter who specialised in sports programmes....
, Selina Scott
Selina Scott

Selina Scott is a British news presenter, journalist and television presenter....
, Nick Ross
Nick Ross

Nick Ross is a British radio and television presenter across a wide range of factual programmes but is best known for his long-running co-hosting of the BBC TV show Crimewatch which he left on 2 July 2007 after 23 years....
 and Russell Grant
Russell Grant

Russell Grant is a United Kingdom astrology and media personality. He is the UK's 'astrologer royal' and is frequently quoted in the media, as well as working as a television presenter....
. The relaxed feel to the programme included a set designed to be a front room, with red leather sofas, and Bough and Ross wore jumpers and open-necked shirts which added to the air of informality. The first producer, Ron Neil, created a savvy mix of serious news and accessible features, and the BBC show was a huge hit to the detriment of the more formal ITV rival Good Morning Britain
Good Morning Britain

Good Morning Britain was TV-am's flagship breakfast television show, which broadcast from 7am until 9am five days a week between 1983 and 1992....
, where ratings were so poor its producer, TV-am
TV-am

TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of an ITV franchise at breakfast-time, and was broadcast every day of the week, for most or all of the period between 6am and 9.25am....
, almost went bankrupt.

After Ron Neil's departure the programme began to revert to a more traditional and formal approach. Presenters included Kirsty Wark
Kirsty Wark

Kirsteen Anne Wark is a Scotland journalist and television presenter best known for fronting the BBC Two's news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts annexe Newsnight Review....
, John Stapleton
John Stapleton

John Stapleton is an England television presenter. He joined the BBC current affairs television series Nationwide in 1975 as a reporter, and then became one of the main presenters on the programme from 1977 until 1980....
, Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Dixon Paxman is an England journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. Best known for his abrasive and forthright style of interviewing on the BBC's Newsnight programme, he has been praised as tough and incisive and criticised as aggressive, condescending and irreverent....
, Sally Magnusson
Sally Magnusson

Sally Magnusson, is a Scottish broadcaster and writer, currently working for BBC Scotland, she also presents Tracing Your Routes on BBC Radio 4....
, and Phil Lavelle
Phil Lavelle

Phil Lavelle is an England-born and based TV news reporter and television presenter. He currently works for Channel Five's News in the UK as a Presenter and Reporter....
.

Following a relaunch, the programme was renamed Breakfast News
Breakfast News

Breakfast News was a Breakfast television which aired on BBC One from 4 September 1989 to 15 September 2000.The programme had been previously known as Breakfast Time....
 in 4 September 1989 and followed a much more authoritative tone with a desk modelled on the style used on main news bulletins.

A much larger relaunch came in 2 October 2000 with the establishment of Breakfast, merging the operations of the separate BBC One and BBC News 24 programmes for one single simulcast. Since April 2006 BBC News 24 has begun rolling news coverage at 08:30 while the programme continues on BBC One
BBC One

BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
 until 09:15.

From 08:30 the tone of the programme shifts to a lighter tone. There is a sports bulletin followed by between three and five items that are mainly arts, entertainment or cultural in nature and in 2006, have included interviews with Halle Berry
Halle Berry

Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African-American descent to have won the a...
, Sir Michael Caine and Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer, who has established herself as a one of Hollywood top actresses in recent years....
 . This provides a link to the daytime schedule, via the daytime controller and also the BBC One Controller.

On Saturdays and Sundays the programme broadcasts from the BBC News Channel studio. It is simulcast on the BBC News Channel and BBC One on both days, lasting until 1000 on Saturdays, and until 0900 on Sundays, although on Sundays in the football season the programme ends on BBC One at 07:35 to make way for the repeat of the Match of the Day
Match of the Day

Match of the Day is the BBC's main football television programme. Typically, it is shown on BBC One on Saturday evenings during the English football season, Broadcasting of sports events of the day's matches in the Premier League....
 highlights programme from the evening before, while Breakfast continues until 09:00 on News 24.

On Sundays, the female presenter leaves the programme 15 minutes before conclusion to move to another studio in which she presents two news bulletins during the following programme, The Andrew Marr Show.

The programme celebrated its 25th anniversary on 17 January 2008.

The current presentation of the programme was introduced with a wider relaunch of BBC One news bulletins on 2 May 2006. Breakfast moved into studio N6 at Television Centre with the other BBC One bulletins requiring a new, larger set design. The new set walls are made up of Barco
Barco

Barco N.V. is a display hardware manufacturer specialising in CRT projectors, LCD projectors, DLP, LCoS, LED displays, display walls, flat panel displays, automated luminaires, digital lighting and lighting controls....
 video screens allowing for different backgrounds, graphics and still photographs. Initially the background used were of cirrus clouds on a blue sky but following comments from viewers that this was too cold, the background was replaced by orange squares from the new titles. This was also designed to hide any joins or faults between the screens which had been made obvious beforehand.The set has a generic format which can be used for other programmes like the national news bulletins with very little set movement.

On 28 January 2008, Breakfast returned to the TC7 studios, where Breakfast Time
Breakfast Time

Breakfast Time was British television's first national breakfast show, beating ITV's TV-am to the air by two weeks.The show was revolutionary for the time....
 had first been based. It has remained in the studio, ever since. On 2 March 2009, Breakfast relaunched with a new set and new background to the studio. The backdrop resembles the BBC News Channel backdrop as do the new Breakfast titles.

Presenters

The current BBC Breakfast team consists of:

Weekday presenters


Weekend presenters


Out Of Studio


As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters are called upon to present on location when major stories break. For example, Bill Turnbull presented live from King's Cross in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, while Sian Williams reported live from the scene of the Indian earthquake in 2005. More recently Bill Turnbull
Bill Turnbull

Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
 reported live from Washington for the 2008 US Presidential Elections.

Regular segments


Sport

Sports updates are presented from the studio at 06:20, 06:35, 07:35 and 08:35. On occasional live sports updates can be broadcast from sporting locations, such as Royal Ascot and Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious....
, with the presenter interviewing key sporting figures.
  • Chris Hollins
    Chris Hollins

    Chris Hollins is an English people journalist, presenter and sportsman, currently employed by the BBC and best known for being the sports correspondent for BBC Breakfast....
     (Mon-Thu)
  • Mike Bushell
    Mike Bushell

    Mike Bushell is a sports presenter for the BBC. He presents the sport on BBC Breakfast on Fridays and at the weekends, and also presents sports bulletins throughout the week on BBC News and BBC World News....
     (Fri-Sun)
  • Sean Fletcher
    Sean Fletcher

    Sean Fletcher is a United Kingdom journalist and radio broadcast personality.Born in New York, but brought up in Essex, England,, and educated at Felsted School, Fletcher has a degree in geography, but trained as a music producer....
     (Mon-Fri relief)
  • Amanda Davies (Sat-Sun relief)


Business

Business updates are presented from the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange or LSE is a stock exchange located in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1801, it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, with many overseas listings as well as British companies....
 at 06:10, 06:25, 06:50, 07:25, 07:55 and 08:25 - with news from the latest business stories and FTSE
FTSE

FTSE may refer to:* FTSE Group or* its stock market indices, particularly the FTSE 100 Index on the London Stock Exchange....
 share figures.
  • Simon Jack
    Simon Jack

    Simon Jack is a British people journalist, currently working for the BBC as the regular presenter of BBC Breakfast's business news....
     - Monday to Thursday since 2008
  • Aaron Heslehurst
    Aaron Heslehurst

    Aaron Heslehurst is a BBC World presenter often seen presenting World Business Report. Since March of 2008, he has also been a regular face on BBC Breakfast presenting the business news as well as a regular presenter on BBC News Channel....
     - Friday since 2005 and Mon-Thurs Relief since 2007.


Weather

The weather is broadcast at --:15 and --:45 minutes throughout the programme. During the week, forecasts are normally presented from the Blue Peter
Blue Peter

Blue Peter is a long-running BBC television programme for children. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC Channel....
 Garden, from the roof of Television Centre or out on location, often when the weather is in the news, such as during an expected storm surge
Storm surge

Storm surge is an offshore rise of water associated with a low pressure area weather system, typically a tropical cyclone. Storm surge is caused primarily by high winds pushing on the ocean's surface....
 in 2007 and from sporting events such as Wimbledon.
  • Carol Kirkwood
    Carol Kirkwood

    Carol Kirkwood is a Scottish people journalist, presenter and weather forecaster, currently employed by the BBC and best known for forecasting the weather for BBC Breakfast....
     (Mon-Fri)
  • Matt Taylor
    Matt Taylor (weather forecaster)

    Matt Taylor is a BBC Weather forecaster.He has a degree in City and Regional Planning from Cardiff University where he studied before working for a local council in Lincolnshire....
     (Alternate Sat-Sun/Mon-Fri relief)
  • Alex Deakin
    Alex Deakin

    Alex Deakin is a weather forecasting for the British Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasting on British television and radio.Deakin appears regularly across the BBC services and is one of the main weather presenters on the BBC News at Six and BBC News at One....
     (Alternate Sat-Sun)
  • Louise Lear
    Louise Lear

    Louise Lear , is a BBC Weather presenter, appearing on BBC News , BBC World News, BBC Red Button and BBC Radio. She is also a regular forecaster on the BBC News at Six and was previously a weekend presenter on BBC Breakfast....
      (Alternate Sat-Sun)


Reporters

The below reporters are a dedicated team of journalists whom work specifically for BBC Breakfast. Various BBC News
BBC News

BBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
 reporters may also be seen on the programme as well.
  • Graham Satchell
  • Richard Westcott
    Richard Westcott

    Richard John Westcott is a former South African cricketer who played in five Test cricket from 1954 to 1958. He is the only Test cricketer to have been born in Portugal....
  • Susannah Streeter
  • Tim Muffett


Video podcast

In September 2006, Breakfast launched its own video podcast
Video podcast

Video podcast is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video where the RSS is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe usi...
 called the Breakfast Takeaway. BBC News had already launched three other services: Newsnight
Newsnight

Newsnight is a BBC Television Current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians....
, the Ten O'Clock News and STORYFix
STORYFix

STORYFix was a television programme on United Kingdom news channel BBC News . Broadcast between May 2006 and July 2007, it was notable for presenting an alternative view of the week's news....
 (also shown on television at weekends on News 24. The Breakfast Takeaway was available Monday to Friday in MP4 format where it could be downloaded to and viewed from a home or office computer.

The video podcasts were a one year trial, and from July 2007 they were discontinued. The BBC is currently reviewing the trial.

Specials

In 2003, the Breakfast production team was commissioned by BBC One to make a week long series called The Day Team From Chatsworth presented by Nicki Chapman
Nicki Chapman

Nicki Chapman is an England television presenter who also works in the British pop music industry. She was also famously a judge on the ITV reality show Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox ....
, and presenter of the BBC's Countryfile
Countryfile

Countryfile is a United Kingdom Sunday-morning television programme by the BBC which first aired in 1988 and reports on rural and environmental issues within the United Kingdom....
  programme, John Craven
John Craven

John Craven Order of the British Empire is an England journalist and broadcaster, currently employed by the BBC and perhaps best known for presenting Countryfile and Newsround....
. It took a behind the scenes look at the stately home
Stately home

A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in the British Isles between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property ....
 Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House is a large country house at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England 3? miles Ordinal direction of Bakewell . It is the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, and has been home to their family, the House of Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549....
  and was broadcast separately on BBC One at 1030 in the morning.

A number of other guests, or celebrity presenters have been used on Breakfast to present themed days or weeks, even though some have never been mainstream news reporters or presenters. Many of these have seen the programme extended to 0930:

  • Chris Beardshaw
    Chris Beardshaw

    Chris Beardshaw is an award winning UK gardener who is perhaps best know for his work on the BBC's long running television series Gardeners World....
      - Chelsea Flower Show
    Chelsea Flower Show

    The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, officially the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, England, London, England....
     2006
  • Alistair Appleton
    Alistair Appleton

    Alistair Appleton is a United Kingdom Presenter....
     - Tate Modern
    Tate Modern

    The Tate Modern in London is United Kingdom's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate#Tate Online, part of the group now known simply as Tate Gallery....
     2004, Bath, Somerset 2003
  • Jennie Bond
    Jennie Bond

    Jennie Bond is an England journalist and television presenter. She worked for fourteen years as the BBC's monarchy correspondent. She has most recently hosted Cash in the Attic and the three series of Great British Menu....
     - Buckingham Palace
    Buckingham Palace

    Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
     2004
  • Nicki Chapman
    Nicki Chapman

    Nicki Chapman is an England television presenter who also works in the British pop music industry. She was also famously a judge on the ITV reality show Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox ....
     - Children in Need November 2005, London Fashion Week 2004, Chelsea Flower Show
    Chelsea Flower Show

    The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, officially the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, England, London, England....
     2006
  • Philippa Forrester
    Philippa Forrester

    Philippa Forrester is a United Kingdom television presenter and radio presenter Television producer as well as an author....
     - Alder Hey Children's Hospital 2002
  • Andi Peters
    Andi Peters

    Andi Peters is an England television presenter, voice actor and executive. He initially obtained national TV exposure as a presenter within CBBC playing second fiddle to Ed the Duck, and subsequently acquired technical experience....
     - Neighbours
    Neighbours

    Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
     set 2005, EastEnders
    EastEnders

    EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
    /Albert Square outside broadcast 2006
  • Gaby Roslin
    Gaby Roslin

    Gaby Roslin is an England television presenter and actress....
     - Wimbledon (tennis outside broadcast) 2002
  • Tim Wonnacott
    Tim Wonnacott

    Tim Wonnacott is an England antiques expert, whose career includes auctioning and television television presenter....
     - Christie's
    Christie's

    Christie's is a leading art business and a fine arts auction house....
     Auction Room 2004


Former presenters

  • Rob Bonnet
    Rob Bonnet

    Rob Bonnet is a BBC television journalist, presenting sport bulletins on BBC News services and HARDtalk, an interview programme on BBC World and BBC News 24....
     - Monday-Thursday Sports Presenter from 2000 to October 2005. Left Breakfast to present Sport on BBC World News. Replaced by Chris Hollins
    Chris Hollins

    Chris Hollins is an English people journalist, presenter and sportsman, currently employed by the BBC and best known for being the sports correspondent for BBC Breakfast....
    .
  • Jeremy Bowen
    Jeremy Bowen

    Jeremy Francis John Bowen is a Wales journalist and television presenter....
     - Monday-Thursday Presenter, alongside Sophie Raworth from 2000-2002. Left Breakfast to become the BBC's Middle East Corrospondant. Replaced by Dermot Murnaghan
    Dermot Murnaghan

    Dermot Murnaghan is a British journalist and television presenter.He is well known for his work as a presenter of ITV News and BBC News as well as the shows Eggheads and Treasure Hunt ....
    .
  • Declan Curry
    Declan Curry

    Declan Curry is a Northern Irish people journalist, presenter and businessman, currently employed by the BBC and best known for being the Business Correspondent for BBC Breakfast....
     - Monday-Thursday Business presenter from 2000 to September 2008. Left Breakfast to present Working Lunch
    Working Lunch

    Working Lunch is a television programme broadcast on BBC Two which covers business, personal finance and consumer news. The programme was first aired on 19 September 1994....
    . Replaced by Simon Jack
    Simon Jack

    Simon Jack is a British people journalist, currently working for the BBC as the regular presenter of BBC Breakfast's business news....
    .
  • Max Foster
    Max Foster

    Max Foster is a senior anchor-correspondent on CNN International, based in London....
     - Friday-Sunday Business Presenter from June 2001 to October 2005. Left Breakfast to present CNN International
    CNN International

    CNN International , usually known on-air as simply "CNN" to viewers outside the United States, is an English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming worldwide....
    . Replaced by Aaron Heslehurst
    Aaron Heslehurst

    Aaron Heslehurst is a BBC World presenter often seen presenting World Business Report. Since March of 2008, he has also been a regular face on BBC Breakfast presenting the business news as well as a regular presenter on BBC News Channel....
    .
  • Mishal Husain
    Mishal Husain

    Mishal Husain is currently an anchor for the BBC's international news channel BBC World, presenting between 1300 and 1600 GMT each Monday to Thursday, as well as appearing on the BBC One weekend bulletins....
     - Friday-Sunday presenter, alongside Bill Turnbull
    Bill Turnbull

    Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
     from 2002 to 2004. She left Breakfast, while on maternity leave in 2004 and returned to her former job on BBC World News. Replaced by Susanna Reid
    Susanna Reid

    Susanna Reid is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
    .
  • Darren Jordon
    Darren Jordon

    Darren Jordon is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24 hour English language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English....
     - Friday-Sunday Presenter, alongside Sarah Montague
    Sarah Montague

    'Sarah Montague' is a British journalist, best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a Political Correspondent and for being a presenter of the Today Programme....
    , from 2000-2001. Left Breakfast to present Al Jazeera English. Replaced by Bill Turnbull
    Bill Turnbull

    Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
    .
  • Natasha Kaplinsky
    Natasha Kaplinsky

    Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an England News presenter, currently employed by Channel Five....
     - Monday-Thursday presenter from 2002 to 2005 alongside Dermot Murnaghan. Left Breakfast in May 2005 to join the BBC News at Six, later joining Five News
    Five News

    Five News is the news programme of British broadcaster Five . It is produced by Sky News.From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Five, replacing ITN, which had provided the channel's news service from the channel's launch in 1997....
    . She was replaced by Sian Williams
    Sian Williams

    Sian Mary Williams is a BBC journalist and current affairs presenter.Presently on maternity leave from 5 February, 2009, since 2005, she has been co-anchor of BBC Breakfast on Mondays through Thursdays....
    .
  • Isobel Lang
    Isobel Lang

    Isobel Dinah Lang is a weather presenter for Sky News....
     - Monday-Friday Weather Presenter from 2000-2006. Left Breakfast to present Sky News. Replaced by Carol Kirkwood
    Carol Kirkwood

    Carol Kirkwood is a Scottish people journalist, presenter and weather forecaster, currently employed by the BBC and best known for forecasting the weather for BBC Breakfast....
    .
  • Sarah Montague
    Sarah Montague

    'Sarah Montague' is a British journalist, best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a Political Correspondent and for being a presenter of the Today Programme....
     - Friday-Sunday Presenter from 2000-2002, alongside Darren Jordon
    Darren Jordon

    Darren Jordon is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24 hour English language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English....
     from 2000-2001 and Bill Turnbull
    Bill Turnbull

    Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
     from 2001-2002. Left Breakfast to preseent BBC Radio 4
    BBC Radio 4

    BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
    . Replaced by Mishal Hussain.
  • Dermot Murnaghan
    Dermot Murnaghan

    Dermot Murnaghan is a British journalist and television presenter.He is well known for his work as a presenter of ITV News and BBC News as well as the shows Eggheads and Treasure Hunt ....
    -Monday-Thursday presenter from 2002 to December 2007,,alongsideNatasha Kaplinsky
    Natasha Kaplinsky

    Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an England News presenter, currently employed by Channel Five....
     from 2002 to 2005 and Sian Williams
    Sian Williams

    Sian Mary Williams is a BBC journalist and current affairs presenter.Presently on maternity leave from 5 February, 2009, since 2005, she has been co-anchor of BBC Breakfast on Mondays through Thursdays....
     from 2005 to 2007. Left the BBC in December 2007 to present Sky News. Replaced by Bill Turnbull
    Bill Turnbull

    Bill Turnbull is an English people journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast....
    .
  • Sophie Raworth
    Sophie Raworth

    Sophie Raworth is an England News presenter and journalist who works for British broadcaster the BBC. She is the main presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting Tuesday to Friday, and regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and occasionally on BBC News at Ten....
     - Monday-Thursday presenter from 2000 to 2002, alongside Jeremy Bowen. Left Breakfast in 2002 to present the BBC News at Six. Replaced by Natasha Kaplinsky.
  • Moira Stuart
    Moira Stuart

    Moira Clare Ruby Stuart Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom journalist who was the first British African-Caribbean community female News presenter on British television....
     - Regular Presenter on Breakfast's global morning news, when it merged with BBC World News. Left the programme in April 2006 after news summaries were presented by the main presenters. Briefly presented the headlines on the The Andrew Marr Show before leaving the BBC.
  • Sue Thearle
    Sue Thearle

    Sue Thearle is a relief presenter on the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel BBC News. She was previously a sports presenter on the channel and on BBC Breakfast....
     - Friday-Sunday Sports presenter since 2002. Left Breakfast in May 2008 to present news and sport on the BBC News Channel. Replaced by Mike Bushell
    Mike Bushell

    Mike Bushell is a sports presenter for the BBC. He presents the sport on BBC Breakfast on Fridays and at the weekends, and also presents sports bulletins throughout the week on BBC News and BBC World News....
    .


Awards

  • In March 2006, Breakfast won the TRIC award
    Television and Radio Industries Club

    The Television and Radio Industries Club is a United Kingdom institution chartered in 1931 to "promote goodwill in the television and radio industries"....
     for best daytime television programme for the third year in a row.


See also

  • Breakfast television
    Breakfast television

    Breakfast television or Morning show is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast Live television in the morning . Often hosted by a small 'team' of male and female hosts, morning shows typically marketing the combined demographic of people getting ready for work, and stay-at-home adults and parents....
  • GMTV
    GMTV

    GMTV is the national ITV breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom. It is owned by GMTV Ltd, comprising ITV plc and The Walt Disney Company ....


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