Breakfast News

Breakfast News
BBC Breakfast News final logo, from 2 June 1997 to 15 September 2000
GenreBreakfast television
Created byBBC News
Presented byVarious (see below)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release2 October 1989 (1989-10-02) –
15 September 2000 (2000-09-15)[1]
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Breakfast News is a breakfast news programme which first aired on BBC1 on 2 October 1989.[2] The programme was previously known as Breakfast Time. It was planned to launch on 18 September 1989[3] but was held back by two weeks due to technical issues with its new studio.[4] The programme adopted a rolling news format with news summaries every 15 minutes plus weather and regional news every 30 minutes. Other features included a review of the day's newspapers and regular business news updates.

From 22 November 1989, following the commencement of televised coverage of the House of Commons, the 8 am to 8.15 am part of the programme was simulcast on BBC2 as part of a new news hour which encompassed a review of the previous day's proceedings at Westminster.[5] The final edition of Breakfast News aired on 15 September 2000[1] and on 2 October 2000 it relaunched as BBC Breakfast.

  1. ^ a b The Evolution of Breakfast BBC News, January 2008
  2. ^ "BBC - BBC Breakfast celebrates 30 years of waking up the nation - Media centre". bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  3. ^ "BBC NEWS - Programmes - Breakfast - Presenters - The Evolution of Breakfast". bbc.co.uk. 14 November 2008.
  4. ^ "BBC Breakfast Time 1989: Kirsty tells us the new look BBC Breakfast News has had to be postponed". 30 December 2013. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
  5. ^ "BBC Two England – 22 November 1989 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2019.