In which year was Breakfast TV first broadcast on the BBC?
Breakfast television was awarded to TV-am, a breakfast-television station. However, launch delays for TV-am allowed the BBC to launch its own morning programme, "Breakfast Time" on 17 January 1983. TV-am, with "Good Morning Britain" as its flagship programme, launched just two weeks later on 1 February. TV-am struggled at first because of a format that was considered to be stodgy and formal compared to the more relaxed magazine style of the BBC's "Breakfast Time", and a reliance on advertising income from a timeslot during which people were not accustomed to watching television. However, it eventually flourished only to lose its licence in
BBC Breakfast BBC Breakfast BBC Breakfast is a British Breakfast television programme on BBC One and BBC News channels. The simulcast is presented live, originally from the BBC Television Centre before moving to MediaCityUK in 2012. The programme contains a mixture of news; sport; weather; business; feature items and is broadcast seven days a week, every week of the year, including weekends and public holidays. "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