BBC Breakfast
| Breakfast | |
|---|---|
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| Presented by |
Louise Minchin Dan Walker Charlie Stayt Naga Munchetty (See full list) |
| Theme music composer | David Lowe |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
MediaCityUK (2012—) BBC Television Centre (2000–12) |
| Running time | 195 minutes (Monday - Fridays) 240 minutes (Weekend) 240 minutes (Olympics) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC One BBC One HD BBC News(Until 8:30) BBC News HD (Until 8:30) BBC World News |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | 2 October 2000 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Breakfast News (1989-2000) |
| Related shows |
BBC News at One, BBC News at Five BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten BBC Weekend News Outside Source World News Today |
| External links | |
| Website | |
BBC Breakfast is a national British morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and BBC News. It is presented live from MediaCityUK and contains a mixture of breaking news, 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.
Adam Bullimore is the editor. He had been the deputy editor for five years. Alison Ford, previously the UK Editor for BBC Newsgathering, was the editor of the programme until her death in July 2013. Her appointment followed the departure of David Kermode to 5 News.
Breakfast Time was the first BBC breakfast programme, with Ron Neil as producer. It was conceived in response to the plans of the commercial television company TV-am to introduce a breakfast television show. Breakfast Time's first broadcast was on 17 January 1983 and was presented by Frank Bough, Selina Scott, Nick Ross and Russell Grant. The atmosphere of the set was intended to encourage a relaxed informality; a set that mimicked a living-room rather than a studio, with red leather sofas, and Bough and Ross wearing jumpers and open-necked shirts. This allowed for an unconventional mix of authoritative and highbrow news and informative and entertainment features that made the show dominate the new genre and trounce the anticipated threat by the star-name commercial TV rival. So, a senior government minister might be subjected to intense questioning while sitting on the red sofa, to be then included in the presentation of a food cooking demonstration. Breakfast Time lasted 150 minutes, initially being transmitted between 6.30 am and 9 am—moving to a 6.50 am to 9.20 am slot on 18 February 1985.
A bomb detonated at 2:54 a.m. on 12 October 1984 in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, with the purpose to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, who were staying at the hotel for the Conservative Party conference meant that Nick Ross presented Breakfast Time on his own, as live coverage came in from Brighton.
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