BBC Two to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, now tend to appear on BBC Four instead. British television at the time of BBC2's launch consisted of two channels: the BBC Television Service and the ITV network made up of smaller regional companies. Both channels had existed in a state
The Radio 2 Breakfast Show The Radio 2 Breakfast Show The Radio 2 Breakfast Show refers to a range of programming on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 from 1967, and predating "Wake Up To Wogan" which started in 1993. From Radio 2's inception in 1967 a breakfast programme was broadcast in tandem with The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, featuring a mix of news, music, traffic and weather reports.. Unlike its Radio 1 counterpart which had started with a single presenter, "Breakfast Special" was a continuation of a Light Programme format which had been running since 1965 with a roster of presenters who hosted in