Breakfast News#Business Breakfast

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| network = BBC One

| first_aired = {{Start date|1989|10|02|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2001|01|22|df=y}}

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Breakfast News is a breakfast news programme which first aired on BBC1 on 2 October 1989.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/breakfast-30th-anniversary.html|title=BBC - BBC Breakfast celebrates 30 years of waking up the nation - Media centre|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006074604/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/breakfast-30th-anniversary.html|url-status=dead}} The programme was previously known as Breakfast Time. It was planned to launch on 18 September 1989{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/presenters/7706825.stm|title=BBC NEWS - Programmes - Breakfast - Presenters - The Evolution of Breakfast|work=bbc.co.uk|date=14 November 2008 }} but was held back by two weeks due to technical issues with its new studio.{{cite web|url=http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=85709d75aeb7887fcb6e8c7ead3a8d5a&media=breakfast_news_postponed_1989&type=mp4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233111/http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=85709d75aeb7887fcb6e8c7ead3a8d5a&media=breakfast_news_postponed_1989&type=mp4|archive-date=30 December 2013|title=BBC Breakfast Time 1989: Kirsty tells us the new look BBC Breakfast News has had to be postponed.|url-status=usurped|date=30 December 2013 }} The programme adopted a rolling news format with news summaries every 15{{nbsp}}minutes plus weather and regional news every 30{{nbsp}}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{{nbsp}}am to 8.15{{nbsp}}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.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1989-11-22|title=BBC Two England – 22 November 1989 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2019}} The final edition of Breakfast News aired on 19 January 2001[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/presenters/7706825.stm The Evolution of Breakfast] BBC News, January 2008 and on 22 January 2001 it relaunched as BBC Breakfast.

Presentation

The programme went through three main visual changes. The initial look lasted until 8 April 1993. The 13 April 1993 revamp saw the programme presented from the same set as the One, Six and Nine O'Clock News bulletins.{{cite web|url=https://tvnewsroom.org/bbc-breakfast-through-the-years-1986-2018/|title=BBC Breakfast through the years - tvnewsroom|access-date=10 December 2018}} A further and final revamp took place on 2 June 1997 when 'BBC' was shorn from its title, and on-screen it became known as simply Breakfast News. It was during this final period that the tone began to shift, with the return of a sofa set, alongside more features, and more interaction between the presenting team.

==Broadcasting==

BBC Breakfast News only aired from Mondays to Fridays with no weekend editions, although weekend editions were shown during the early stages of the 1991 Gulf War. This compares to their ITV counterparts TV-am and later GMTV who were on the air seven days a week. However, in September 1991 the BBC launched a short 5 minute weekend breakfast news summary. The Saturday edition aired at 7:25{{nbsp}}am to commence their Saturday schedule.[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1991-09-21 BBC Genome: BBC1 listings 21 September 1991] The bulletin was not presented from the Breakfast News set, but from the main BBC News set based in the newsroom.{{Cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews/breakfast_1989.html |title=A clip of the first weekend news bulletin |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026060953/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews/breakfast_1989.html |archive-date=26 October 2016 |url-status=usurped }}

The Saturday breakfast bulletin was dropped from the schedules in the autumn of 1999 with the last Saturday morning bulletin airing on Saturday 11 September 1999. BBC Two had already been broadcasting an hour of news from BBC News 24, branded as "Weekend 24" on Saturday mornings from 8{{nbsp}}am to 9{{nbsp}}am since 31 January 1998, over two months after the launch of BBC News 24 and so the short Saturday breakfast news summary on BBC One started to become redundant. On Sundays the short morning bulletin would air at 9:10{{nbsp}}am and this would later be incorporated into the Breakfast with Frost programme which launched on 3 January 1993.{{cite web|url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews/breakfast.html|title=TVARK - BBC News - Breakfast News|work=tv-ark.org.uk|access-date=1 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602195113/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews/breakfast.html|archive-date=2 June 2014|url-status=usurped}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277473/|title=Breakfast with Frost (TV Series 1993–2005)|author=Chris Gaskin|work=IMDb}}

''Business Breakfast''

Business Breakfast was a daily news programme which aired between 6{{nbsp}}am and 7{{nbsp}}am, directly preceding Breakfast News between 4 January 1993 and 2001. Initially the programme aired as part of Breakfast News broadcasting between 6:34{{nbsp}}am and 6:55{{nbsp}}am. From Tuesday 4 January 2000 until Friday 19 January 2001, Business Breakfast was subsumed into the BBC Breakfast News programme with Breakfast News starting at 6{{nbsp}}am each weekday. Business Breakfast remained as a feature not a separate programme however, with business news a key feature in the first hour of the programme. This set up was to change from January 2001 with the launch of BBC Breakfast.

''Breakfast News Extra''

Breakfast News Extra launched on 5 February 1996, as an attempt to compete against Lorraine Kelly on GMTV. The programme was presented from the Breakfast News office, on a blue sofa, and hosted by Juliet Morris. It was short-lived, and was axed in the summer of 1997 with the last one shown on 29 August 1997. By this stage the main BBC Breakfast News had undergone a dramatic visual revamp with a new studio set which included sofas alongside the main presentation desk.