All Topics  
Breakfast Time

 
Breakfast Time

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Breakfast Time
 
 
  Topics Breakfast Time Topic Home

Breakfast Time was British television
British television

British television broadcasting started in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are up to 600 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content....
's first national breakfast show, beating 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 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....
 to the air by two weeks.

The show was revolutionary for the time. It mixed hard news with accessible features, creating a cosy feel, with sofas and bright colours — a stark contrast to the Open University
Open University

The Open University is the UK's Distance education government-supported university notable for having an open entry policy, i.e. students' previous academic achievements are not taken into account for entry to most undergraduate courses....
 programming that had previously aired during that timeslot. 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....
 and 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....
 anchored the show, with regulars such as 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....
 (astrology) and Diana Moran
Diana Moran

Diana Moran is a United Kingdom model, fitness expert and journalist.In the 1960s and 1970s, Moran was a successful print and catwalk model. She also appeared as a TV announcer and newsreader for HTV West....
, also known as the "Green Goddess" due to the colour of her leotard (fitness).

Breakfast Time was an unexpected success.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Breakfast Time'
Start a new discussion about 'Breakfast Time'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Breakfast Time was British television
British television

British television broadcasting started in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are up to 600 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content....
's first national breakfast show, beating 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 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....
 to the air by two weeks.

The show was revolutionary for the time. It mixed hard news with accessible features, creating a cosy feel, with sofas and bright colours — a stark contrast to the Open University
Open University

The Open University is the UK's Distance education government-supported university notable for having an open entry policy, i.e. students' previous academic achievements are not taken into account for entry to most undergraduate courses....
 programming that had previously aired during that timeslot. 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....
 and 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....
 anchored the show, with regulars such as 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....
 (astrology) and Diana Moran
Diana Moran

Diana Moran is a United Kingdom model, fitness expert and journalist.In the 1960s and 1970s, Moran was a successful print and catwalk model. She also appeared as a TV announcer and newsreader for HTV West....
, also known as the "Green Goddess" due to the colour of her leotard (fitness).

Breakfast Time was an unexpected success. A rival commercial breakfast show, TV-am, was headed by a star line-up and almost everyone assumed it would trounce the BBC, but Breakfast Time got on the air first and the format and presenters proved supremely popular.

One of Breakfast Times most notable episodes was on the morning of the Brighton bombing
Brighton hotel bombing

The Brighton hotel bombing was the attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Grand Hotel in the England resort town of Brighton in the early morning of 12 October 1984....
 when 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....
 in the studio presented continuous live coverage of the IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
's attack at the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 conference in Sussex
Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Su?seaxe , is a Historic counties of England in South East England England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex....
, including live pictures of the rescue of senior politicians such as Norman Tebbit
Norman Tebbit

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament for Chingford, who was born in Southgate, London in London Borough of Enfield....
.

In time 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....
 simply copied the BBC's approach, and Breakfast Time became less sure-footed, losing some of its friendly accessibility as it strained to be more serious in tone. It adopted a news format in 10 November 1986, and on 4 September 1989 the show became 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....
.

Presenters

  • 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....
  • Sue Cook
    Sue Cook

    Sue Cook is a United Kingdom broadcaster and author. She lives in North London with her husband, film director Ian Sharp. She has two children, Charlie Williams, son to former husband John Williams , the classical guitarist, and Megan Macqueen, daughter to children's television producer Billy Macqueen with whom she lived for almost fifteen...
  • Debbie Greenwood
    Debbie Greenwood

    Debbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen. She won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984. She is also the wife of presenter Paul Coia, with whom she has two daughters, Annalie and Luisa....
  • 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....
  • John Mountford
    John Mountford

    John Mountford was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1948. His father, Arnold Mountford, was an acclaimed international expert in United Kingdom Ceramics ....
  • 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....
  • 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....
  • Mike Smith
    Mike Smith (television presenter)

    Mike Smith is a United Kingdom television, radio presenter, racing driver, pilot and successful entrepreneur .He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and is married to the television present Sarah Greene...
  • 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....
  • 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....


External links