Timeline of breakfast television in the United Kingdom

This is a timeline of the history of breakfast television in the United Kingdom.

1970s

1974
30 January – BBC2 shows the first early morning Open University programming, airing between 6:40{{nbsp}}am and 7:30{{nbsp}}am.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1974-01-30|title=BBC Two England – 30 January 1974 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2019}}

1975
No events.

1976
4 February – Early morning programming from the Open University begins on BBC1, with Electrons in motion airing at 7:05{{nbsp}}am.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1976-02-04|title=BBC One London – 4 February 1976 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2019}}

1977
28 March-27 May – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television carry out a nine-week breakfast television experiment. Airing at 8:30{{nbsp}}am, YTV's programme is called Good Morning Calendar and Tyne Tees' programme is called Good Morning North. They are credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programmes, airing six years before the launch of TV-am and the BBC's Breakfast Time.{{cite web|url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/insidetv/history/breakfast.php|title=A good breakfast|work=Inside TV|first=David|last=Hastings|date= 1 September 2001|access-date=1 August 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/itvyorkshire/news.html|title=Yorkshire Television News|work=TV Ark|access-date=1 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219183737/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/itvyorkshire/news.html|archive-date=2012-02-19|url-status=dead}}

1978
No events.

1979
No events.

1980s

1980
24 January – The Independent Broadcasting Authority announces that in the next ITV franchising round it will offer a national licence for breakfast television.
1 December – BBC Scotland carries out a one-week experiment in breakfast television. It is a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast show Good Morning Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/scotland/1980-12-01|title=BBC One Scotland – 1 December 1980 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2019}}
28 December – The IBA announces the results of the 1980 franchise round, which includes the winner of a national franchise to provide a breakfast television service on ITV. TV-am is awarded the contract to begin transmission in 1983.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/28/newsid_2547000/2547031.stm|title=Green light for breakfast television|publisher=BBC On This Day|access-date=15 May 2009|date=1980-12-28}}

1981
March – TV-am purchases a former car showroom in Camden as its headquarters. The building is subsequently renovated to create the Breakfast Television Centre.{{cite web |title=TV-am Studios |url=http://www.tv-am.org.uk/tv-am-studios |year=2005 |publisher=Ian White}}

1982
3–9 October – As part of its coverage of the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the BBC broadcasts a two-hour breakfast programme Breakfast with Brisbane. The programme includes regular news summaries and is the first time the BBC has broadcast a scheduled news bulletin at breakfast and comes three months ahead of the launch of the BBC's breakfast television programme Breakfast Time.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1982-10-03|title=BBC One London – 3 October 1982 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=1 September 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9805607/Breakfast-television-the-revolution-embraced-by-the-nation.html|title=Breakfast television: the revolution embraced by the nation|first=Neil|last=Midgley|date=16 January 2013|publisher=Telegraph Media Group|access-date=27 February 2019|newspaper=The Telegraph}}

1983
17 January – At 6:30am, Britain's first-ever breakfast television show, Breakfast Time, launches on BBC1.
1 February – TV-am launches on ITV, with Daybreak and Good Morning Britain.
14 February – Following the launch of Breakfast Time, the Open University (OU) programmes previously shown on BBC1 on weekday mornings move to BBC2, resulting in the weekday early morning OU transmission on BBC2 being extended from 1 hour 15 minutes to 2 hours 5 minutes. BBC1 continues to broadcast early morning OU transmissions at the weekend until September 1992.
28 February
TV-am cuts its Daybreak programme to thirty minutes, allowing Good Morning Britain to begin half an hour earlier. Original Daybreak presenters Robert Kee and Angela Rippon are both replaced, with Gavin Scot (Weekdays) and Lynda Barry (weekends).TV-am to start main show earlier. By Kenneth Gosling. The Times (London, England), 25 February 1983; pg. 2;Breakfast TV battle claims first victim. By Kenneth Gosling. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 17 February 1983; pg. 1
BBC1 begins broadcasting a 30-minute Ceefax slot prior to the start of Breakfast Time. It is called Ceefax AM.{{Cite web|url=https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/7099/features/the-history-of-pages-from-ceefax-part-2-3/|title=The history of Pages from Ceefax (part 2/3)|date=16 March 2020|website=Clean Feed|accessdate=20 June 2021}} It is first mentioned in the Radio Times on 21 March.{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1983-03-21|title=Schedule – BBC Programme Index|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=20 June 2021}}
18 March – Amid falling ratings and mounting pressure from investors, Peter Jay steps aside as TV-am's Chief Executive allowing Jonathan Aitken to take on the role.Move to oust Jay at ailing TV-am. The Times (London, England), Friday, 18 March 1983; pg. 1Jay ousted as backers move to save TV-amBarker, Dennis;Simpson, DavidThe Guardian (1959–2003); 19 March 1983; P1TV-am shake-up expected after Peter Jay quits. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 19 March 1983
1 April – Roland Rat makes his first appearance on TV-am.{{cite web|url=http://www.ratfans.com/roland.htm |title=Roland Rat Superstar |publisher=Ratfans.com |date=1983-04-01 |access-date=2014-05-20}} Created by David Claridge and launched by TV-am Children's editor Anne Wood to entertain younger viewers during the Easter holidays,{{cite web|url=http://www.thechildrensmediafoundation.org/support/patrons-2/anne-wood-c-b-e |title=Anne Wood C.B.E. – The Children's Media Foundation |publisher=Thechildrensmediafoundation.org |access-date=2014-05-20}} Roland is generally regarded as TV-am's saviour, being described as "the only rat to join a sinking ship".{{cite news|first=Matt |last=Westcott |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/11718497.car-torque-with-tv-rodent-superstar-roland-rat/ |title=Car Torque with TV rodent superstar Roland Rat |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=12 January 2015 |access-date=29 January 2019}}
12 April – Timothy Aitken succeeds his cousin Jonathan as chief executive of TV-am due to the IBA rules regarding MPs operating a television station.{{cite news | title=Cousin of Aitken is TV-am chief | first=Kenneth | last=Gosling | newspaper=The Times | location=London, England | date=13 April 1983 | page=2}}
19 April – Angela Rippon and Anna Ford are dismissed from TV-am.{{cite news | title=TV-am sacks Ford and Rippon | last1=Barker | first1=Dennis | last2=Wainwright | first2=Martin | newspaper=The Guardian (1959–2003) | date=20 April 1983 | page=1}}
29 April – Michael Parkinson is appointed to TV-am's board of directors.{{cite news | title=Parkinson gets key role in TV-am's future with place on board | first=Kenneth | last=Gosling | newspaper=The Times | location=London, England | date=30 April 1983 | page=3}}
23 May – TV-am's new look starts.{{cite news|title=TV-am ready with its new look|last=Barker|first=Dennis|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 May 1983}} Daybreak is axed, with Good Morning Britain now the sole weekday programme, beginning at 6:25 am. Commander David Philpott is moved to weekends only, with Wincey Willis becoming the new weekday weather presenter.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/herefordandworcester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8927000/8927465.stm |title=New radio show for Wincey Willis |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=20 August 2010 |access-date=20 October 2018}}

1984
Bruce Gyngell is appointed as TV-am's chief executive. To make the company financially viable, he introduced cost-cutting measures which were brought sharply into focus in the Brighton hotel bombing. The night before the terrorist attack, TV-am sent the production team home as it could not afford to pay for hotel rooms and TV-am's response was limited to a caption of reporter John Stapleton reporting over the phone.{{cite web|url=http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/itvbreakfast/tvam_images/gallery/tvam_images_t967b.jpg |format=JPG |title=John Stapleton Reporting From Brighton – Image |publisher=Hub.tv-ark.org.uk |access-date=2015-03-03}} Trade union agreements at the time meant that technical staff at the local ITV station TVS could not provide cover for another commercial television company, and TV-am's previous conflicts with ITN meant that the latter would not share its footage. The IBA told the company to invest and improve its news coverage, or it would lose its licence.
4 August – The BBC broadcasts its very first weekend edition of Breakfast Time as part of its coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. For the duration of the Games, with the exception of news and weather, the programme was entirely devoted to Olympic coverage and the time difference meant that Olympic Breakfast Time was given over to highlights of the overnight action. Frank Bough presentes the programme with David Icke providing "Olympic Action Summaries" at 7.05, 8.05 and 8.50.[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1984-07-30 BBC Genome Project – BBC1 listings 30 July 1984] The weekend editions saw news summaries are broadcast on the hour and this is the first time that the BBC has broadcast a full service of pre-lunchtime news bulletins at the weekend.[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1984-08-04 BBC Genome Project – BBC1 listings 4 August 1984]
13 October – TV-am launches a new Saturday morning children's series called the Wide Awake Club. The live programme replaces pre-recorded shows such as Data Run and SPLAT.

1985
3 January – TV-am expands its broadcasting hours. Weekday programmes begin ten minutes earlier during the week, at 6:15am and weekend programmes begin at 6:55am.
18 February – Breakfast Time moves to a later slot, now running between 6:50am and 9:20am. Consequently, Ceefax AM is now on air for an extra 20 minutes each day, from 6am until 6:50am.
TV-am launches After Nine. It is only broadcast during term time as children's programmes are shown during the school holidays.
14 September – TV-am's Wide Awake Club is doubled in length, broadcasting for almost two hours from 7:30am until 9:25am.
3 October – Roland Rat, the puppet rodent who saved an ailing TV-am transfers to the BBC.{{cite news|title=Roland Rat joins Wogan at the BBC |first=David |last=Hewson |newspaper=The Times |publisher=News International |date=3 October 1985 |page=3}} With only a week until October half term was due to start, TV-am launches Wacaday, a spin-off of the existing and successful Saturday morning programme, Wide Awake Club.

1986
25 July – Selina Scott presents Breakfast Time for the final time.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1986-07-25|title=BBC One London – 25 July 1986 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2019}}
10 November – BBC1 revamps its breakfast programming. Breakfast Time is relaunched with a more formal news and current affairs format. The programme now begins at the later time of 7am. Prior to Breakfast Time, BBC1 starts showing The Flintstones at 6:30am, reducing Ceefax AM to a 30-minute broadcast.

1987
July – TV-am reintroduces a weekday news programme, GMB Newshour, airing initially from the start of programmes until 7am. Good Morning Britain now airs between 7am and 9am.
7 September – TV-am recommences broadcasting each day from 6am. This is the first time since 1983 that TV-am has transmitted throughout its allocated broadcast hours.
16 October – Following the Great Storm of 1987, electrical power to TV-am's studios is lost and an emergency programme has to be transmitted from facilities at Thames Television's Euston Road centre using reports from TV-am's own crews and those of ITN, TSW and TVS. The BBC's Breakfast Time, which would usually come from Lime Grove, was unable to broadcast as the studios were without power, as was most of BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane. The early part of the programme was broadcast from the continuity suite at TV Centre usually used for Children's BBC presentation as this area had generator support, before a larger studio was able to be brought into use.
23 November – The TV-am strike begins after members of the technicians' union the ACTT walk out in a dispute over the station's ‘Caring Christmas Campaign’. What is meant to be a 24-hour stoppage continues for several months when staff are locked out by Managing Director Bruce Gyngell. TV-am is unable to broadcast Good Morning Britain, replacing it with shows such as Flipper, Batman and Happy Days. By December a skeleton service that sees non-technical staff operating cameras and Gyngell himself directing proceedings, begin to allow Good Morning Britain to start broadcasting again. The strikers are eventually sacked and replaced with non-union staff. Viewing figures remain high throughout the disruption, which continues well into 1988.
7 December – TV-am is able to switch from airing 100% pre-recorded material with the introduction of a 30-minute live segment each morning presented by Anne Diamond.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpQ_esoMKLMC&q=%22Batman%22+%22TV-am%22&pg=PA96 |title=Morning Glory: A History of British Breakfast Television |first=Ian |last=Jones |chapter=Eight: "I know a lot of people can't stand me" |isbn=978-1903053201 |date=30 November 2003 |publisher=Kelly Publications |pages=93–102}}
14 December – TV-am extends its live broadcasting to an hour a day.
18 December – Frank Bough, who launched breakfast television on 17 January 1983, presents Breakfast Time for the final time.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1987-12-18|title=BBC One London – 18 December 1987 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2019}}

1988
14 January – Talks between TV-am's management and the ACTT begin aimed at resolving the ongoing strike.
25–29 January – TV-am airs a week of live broadcasts from Sydney to celebrate Australia's bicentenary, and featuring Anne Diamond and Mike Morris.
1 February
TV-am celebrates its fifth birthday, with Anne Diamond joined by Richard Keys, Gyles Brandreth, Su Pollard and Jimmy Greaves. It is the first time TV-am has been able to get its daily output down to an hour of pre-recorded material since the beginning of the strike. However, the station continues to air imports of old US shows for several more months.
The deadline on which the ACTT must accept TV-am's "Ten Point Plan" aimed at resolving the strike. However, the plan is rejected by a ballot and the union refuses to resume negotiations.
16 February – TV-am Managing Director Bruce Gyngell sacks the station's locked out staff, and calls a meeting of its remaining employees the following morning to announce that the ACTT will never again organise itself at TV-am's studios. His decision fails to resolve the crisis, however, as picketing continues and the quality of its output remains unchanged.
30 May – TV-am does not go on air, with its airtime instead taken up by coverage of ITV's Telethon '88. The ACTT had asked its members to boycott the programme on this date, and fearful of sparking a nationwide dispute, TV-am's acting Managing Director, Adrian Moore, allows ITV to use the early morning airtime.
July – Stephen Barden is appointed TV-am's new Managing Editor. With the station facing criticism from the IBA over the quality of its output, he acts quickly to improve matters. Repeats of imported US programmes finally come to an end. New programming is launched, and programmes such as Frost on Sunday (off air since the strike began) are restored.
19 August – Following concerns about the quality of TV-am's programming, an emergency meeting of the IBA considers whether to review the station's franchise in early 1989. However, it is ultimately decided not to proceed with the review since the next franchise round is approaching, and the IBA feels the success of both organisations is mutually exclusive.
17 September–2 October – Channel 4 broadcasts at breakfast for the very first time as part of its coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games and the BBC resurrects Olympic Breakfast Time for the duration on the event, and this includes the return of weekend editions which, like in 1984, also includes hourly news summaries.[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1988-10-01 BBC Genome Project – BBC1 listings 1 October 1988]
1 November – Having decided to step down from her presenting role on TV-am, Anne Diamond makes her final regular appearance on the station.
TV-am's GMB Newshour is relaunched as The Morning Programme.

1989
6 February – Launch of the Sky News flagship breakfast programme Sky News Sunrise.
3 April – Channel 4 launches its breakfast television show The Channel Four Daily. The programme is based heavily on news and current affairs, with segments focusing on sports, finance, lifestyles, arts and entertainment, and discussion.
April – The Wide Awake Club is renamed WAC '90. It is broadcast from Granada's studios in Manchester rather than from TV-am's London studios.
15 September – Ceefax AM is broadcast for the final time.
2 October – The BBC relaunches Breakfast Time as Breakfast News. The new programme adopts a rolling news format and starts 30 minutes earlier, at 6:30 am. Most of the first 30 minutes is devoted to business news.
22 November – Following the commencement of televised coverage of the House of Commons the previous day, BBC2 launches a breakfast round-up of yesterday's proceedings. This is preceded by the 8am bulletin from Breakfast News.{{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}} Previously, the only BBC2 breakfast output was programmes from the Open University. Open University programmes continue to be shown on BBC2 at breakfast, but in an earlier timeslot. The new programme line-up is completed by the introduction of the first peak-breakfast Pages from Ceefax broadcast with Ceefax shown between the end of the Open University transmission, or from 7:30am when no OU programmes are broadcast.

1990s

1990
2 January – The weekday 6{{nbsp}}am Ceefax slot returns to BBC1.
17 April – The Channel Four Daily is revamped in a bid to attract more viewers. Some of the segments are changed and the programme starts 30 minutes later, at 6:30am.
July – Hey, Hey, it's Saturday! replaces Wac '90 as TV-am's flagship Saturday morning children's programme.

1991
17 January–2 March – The Gulf War sees the broadcast of extra and extended news bulletins at breakfast. These include weekend summaries on the hour on BBC1 and a Saturday edition of The Channel 4 Daily.
September – TV Mayhem replaces Hey, Hey, it's Saturday! as TV-am's Saturday morning children's programme.
21 September – More than eight years after launching weekday breakfast television service, the BBC launches a five-minute long weekend breakfast news bulletin.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1991-09-21|title=BBC One London – 21 September 1991 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|access-date=8 May 2019}} The Saturday bulletin is broadcast at 7:25am and on Sundays the bulletin is shown at 9:10am.
16 October – The ITV franchise auction results are announced and TV-am loses out because it was outbid by Sunrise Television.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpPt4ulijyk|title=ITN News at 5:40 – 1991/10/16 – ITV Franchise Awards|last=Never Delossantos|date=23 September 2017|access-date=27 February 2019|via=YouTube}} but as Sky News' breakfast programming also uses that name (and did so until 2019) Sky protested, resulting in a change of name to GMTV.{{Cite web|url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/ident/nevermind/gmtv.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128055813/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/ident/nevermind/gmtv.php|url-status=dead|title=GMTV | Nevermind | Ident|archivedate=28 November 2011|accessdate=20 June 2021}} TV-am immediately axes TV Mayhem and replaces it with Cartoon World which as the name suggests, only shows cartoons.

1992
February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News.
25 September – Channel 4 airs the final Channel Four Daily. The news based breakfast television show was axed due to poor ratings.
28 September – The Channel Four Daily's replacement, The Big Breakfast, launches. The programme takes a lighter tone and proves to be more popular with viewers.
31 December – At 9:25am, TV-am ends its final broadcast after 9 years and 10 months on air.

1993
1 January – Good Morning Television takes over the breakfast television franchise from TV-am. Among its programmes is Saturday Disney which overlaps past 9:25am cut off time. It continues to be produced by Scottish Television which was one of the owners of GMTV at the time.
3 January – Debut of Breakfast with Frost, a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC1 presented by David Frost.{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/99a98b8307364f808efff9ce723e2d1b |title=Breakfast with Frost – BBC One London – 3 January 1993 |date=3 January 1993 | publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=10 November 2015}}
4 January – The BBC launches Business Breakfast as a 60-minute standalone programme. It had previously been part of Breakfast News. Consequently, the BBC's weekday breakfast programmes start half an hour earlier, at 6am and the early morning Ceefax transmission now runs for just 15 minutes, beginning at 5:45am.

1994
17 October – BBC Scotland airs a regional version of the Children's BBC Breakfast Show between 7am to 8am on BBC Two Scotland throughout the half-term October holidays, the hour-long slot is presented by Grant Stott until 21 October.

1995
9 October – The launch of the BBC Learning Zone sees the end of standalone weekday breakfast Open University transmissions on BBC2. From this date, children's programmes are shown on the channel during the peak breakfast period and the strand is called the Children's BBC Breakfast Show.
16 October – BBC Scotland opts out of the network and broadcast their regional version of the Children's BBC Breakfast Show for the second year running, presented by Grant Stott and Gail Porter between 7:15am to 8:25am on BBC Two Scotland for a whole week until 20 October.

1996
5 February – Breakfast News Extra is launched. The 20-minute programme which airs at the end of the main edition of Breakfast News, is presented by Juliet Morris.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0f0eab012a0849b6bbd6ddf14278a1b2 |title=Breakfast News Extra – BBC One – 5 February 1996 |work=BBC Genome |date=5 February 1996 |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 February 2019}}
30 March – Saturday Disney is broadcast on GMTV for the final time.
3 July – The Children's BBC Breakfast Show on BBC Two Scotland is presented by Grant Stott and Gail Porter throughout the opening weeks of the Scottish school Summer holidays, airing between 7:30am to 8:35am until 12 July and the October BBC Two Scotland opt-out returns for a third year.

1997
31 March – Channel 5 launches a 90-minute weekday breakfast news programme 5 News Early. It broadcasts between 6am until 7:30am. The rest of the channel's breakfast airtime is given over to children's strand Milkshake!.
30 June – BBC Two Scotland launch a brand-new Summer holiday children's programme called Up For It! airing between 8:35am to 9:30am for the first three weeks of the Scottish school holidays.{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/845905210/ | title=Daily Record 30 Jun 1997, page 25 }}
29 August – The final edition of Breakfast News Extra is broadcast.
9 November – BBC News 24 launches and from that night, the new continuous news channel broadcasts all night on BBC One. Consequently, the 15-minute early morning Ceefax is broadcast on BBC One for the final time.

1998
Spring – The first edition of The World Today is broadcast on BBC One and BBC News 24 as it simulcasts overnight with BBC World.
14 March – Diggit launches as GMTV's flagship children's programming block. It is broadcast from 7:10am to 9:25am on Saturdays and 8am to 9:25am on Sundays. Additional editions on bank holidays and Summer holidays were shown under the name Diggit Extra.
29 June – BBC Two Scotland air a second series of the Summer holiday children's show Up for It for three weeks of the Scottish Summer holidays, it is now presented by Marsali Stewart from 8:35am to 9:35am.{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/903962606/ | title=Daily Record 29 Jun 1998, page 23 }}
5 October – Sky One begins simulcasting part of Virgin Radio's The Chris Evans Breakfast Show after Virgin signed a three-year sponsorship deal with BSkyB. Under the agreement, Evans is not allowed to mention Virgin Radio while the programme is being simulcast with Sky.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/186644.stm |title=Breakfast radio makes TV debut |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=5 October 1998 |access-date=9 February 2019}}{{cite news|last=McCann |first=Paul |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/media-snap-crackle-pop-go-the-ratings-1046578.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/media-snap-crackle-pop-go-the-ratings-1046578.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Snap, crackle, pop go the ratings |publisher=Independent Print Limited |newspaper=The Independent |date=12 January 1999 |access-date=9 February 2019}}

1999
4 January – GMTV2 launches on ITV2. Its broadcast hours are the same as those of the main GMTV service, 6am to 9:25am.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxGRH8Dyfg|title=GMTV2 starts Monday 4th January 1999|last=thesearethedays|date=25 February 2018|access-date=25 September 2018|via=YouTube}}

2000s

2000
1 January – Channel 4 airs The Biggest Breakfast Ever, an eight-hour overnight millennium special with Johnny Vaughan and Liza Tarbuck. The channel's New Year's Day schedule also includes a contemporary version of Cinderella starring Kathleen Turner.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/548541.stm |title=Ali G's festive cheer |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=3 December 1999 |access-date=20 April 2014}}
15 September – After eleven years on the air, the final edition of Breakfast News is broadcast on BBC One.
2 October – The first edition of the BBC's revamped breakfast news programme Breakfast is broadcast. The new series is carried on both BBC One and BBC News 24, previously News 24 had aired its own breakfast programme, Breakfast 24.

2001
29 August – American illusionist David Blaine appears on GMTV where he is interviewed by Eamonn Holmes, but he refuses to speak and instead gives Holmes the "evil eye". Holmes has subsequently cited this interview as the most awkward moment of his professional career.{{cite news|first=Nicola |last=Methven |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Blaine's+silence+is+not+golden.-a077696376 |title=Blaine's silence is not golden |publisher=Trinity Mirror |newspaper=Daily Record |date=30 August 2001 |access-date=25 March 2016}}{{cite news|first=Sophie |last=Morris |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/eamonn-holmes-my-life-in-media-6095831.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/eamonn-holmes-my-life-in-media-6095831.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Eamonn Holmes: My Life In Media |publisher=Independent Print Limited |newspaper=The Independent |date=9 July 2006 |access-date=25 March 2016}}
20 December – A joint venture between BSkyB and Princess Productions is awarded the contract to replace The Big Breakfast with a new breakfast programme for Channel 4.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1720819.stm |title=Sky wins Big Breakfast slot |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=20 December 2001 |access-date=23 May 2014}}

2002
7 January – Sky News content becomes available on terrestrial television for the first time in a decade when Channel 5 begins simulcasting part of its breakfast news programme Sunrise.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1746908.stm |title=Sky News debuts on Channel 5 |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=7 January 2002 |access-date=29 January 2019}}
29 March – Channel 4's The Big Breakfast ends after nine and a half years on the air.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1899152.stm |title=Big Breakfast bows out |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=29 March 2002 |access-date=17 May 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1897300.stm |title=Toasting the end of The Big Breakfast |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=29 March 2002 |access-date=17 May 2014}}
29 April – The first edition of RI:SE is broadcast on Channel 4.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1956517.stm |title=New breakfast show Rises |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=29 April 2002 |access-date=17 May 2014}}
8 November – Lock Keeper's Cottage, the building in east London used for the Big Breakfast house is destroyed by fire.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2420223.stm |title=UK | England | Fire guts Big Breakfast house |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=8 November 2002 |access-date=3 February 2019}}

2003
19 December – The final edition of RI:SE is aired on Channel 4. It is axed because of low ratings.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3123474.stm |title=Channel 4 axes breakfast show |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=19 September 2003 |access-date=20 May 2014}} It is not replaced with another breakfast programme, instead, Channel 4 airs series such as Friends and The Salon in its early morning slot.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3333325.stm |title=Channel 4's Rise falls for good |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=19 December 2003 |access-date=20 May 2014}}
2004
No events.

2005
5 February – GMTV's Diggin' It and Up on The Roof are merged into a new programme called Toonattik. It is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays from 7:25am until GMTV's closedown at 9:25am.
22 February – Eamonn Holmes announces he will step down from his role as a GMTV presenter after twelve years.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4287663.stm |title=Entertainment | GMTV's Eamonn Holmes to step down |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-02-22 |access-date=2018-01-13}}
27 April – Eamonn Holmes presents his final edition of GMTV after twelve years with the broadcaster.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4488781.stm |title=Entertainment | Holmes bids farewell to GMTV sofa |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-04-27 |access-date=2018-01-13}}
19 May – Eamonn Holmes has signed a deal with Sky News to present their early morning programme Sky News Sunrise, it is reported.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4562627.stm |title=Entertainment | TV host Holmes sets alarm for Sky |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-05-19 |access-date=2018-01-13}}
29 May – BBC One airs the final edition of Breakfast with Frost after a twelve-year run.{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ba7fafe9d6b4dcebe1e7c6905898e11 |title=Breakfast with Frost – BBC One London – 29 May 2005 |date=29 May 2005 | publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=10 November 2015}}
11 September – BBC One launches Sunday AM, a Sunday morning current affairs programme presented by Andrew Marr.{{cite news|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cab364211d284078968eef6a84c92dad |title=Sunday AM – BBC One – 11 September 2005 |work=BBC Genome |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 February 2019}}
24 October – Eamonn Holmes presents his first edition of Sky News Sunrise.

2006
14 January – Debut of Morning Glory, the fourth attempt at breakfast television on Channel 4. It is presented by Dermot O'Leary every weekday morning from 8:30am to 9am.{{cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/|title=Programmes – Most Popular – All 4|website=Channel 4|access-date=31 January 2019}} Due to low ratings, it is not renewed and ends on 28 January.
21 August – Debut of Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed, a music-based breakfast show aired on weekdays and featuring studio performances, music videos and interviews.

2007
9 January – Sky News hires Meridian Tonight presenter Charlotte Hawkins to co-present Sunrise alongside Eamonn Holmes, she makes her debut on 15 January.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jan/09/broadcasting.bskyb | title=Meridian presenter Charlotte Hawkins joins Eamonn Holmes at Sky News | publisher=Guardian Online | first=Chris | last=Tryhorn | date=9 January 2007 |access-date=29 January 2019}}
16 April – Manchester local television station Channel M launches a breakfast show called Channel M Breakfast.
23 April – A BBC Panorama programme disclosed that callers to GMTV's phone-in competitions may have been defrauded out of millions of pounds, because the telephone system operator, Opera Interactive Technology, had determined the winners before the phone lines had closed. GMTV responded by suspending the phone-in quizzes, but claimed that "it was confident it had not breached regulators' codes". Opera Interactive also denied any wrongdoing.
9 September – The BBC One Sunday morning political programme Sunday AM is renamed The Andrew Marr Show when it returns after its Summer break.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/sunday_am/6985925.stm |title=The Andrew Marr Show: Labour focus on action |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News |date=9 September 2007 |access-date=20 February 2019}}{{cite news|first=Barney |last=Jones |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/09/whats_in_a_name_1.html |title=The Editors: What's in a name? |publisher=BBC |date=26 September 2007 |access-date=20 February 2019}}

2008
No events.

2009
5 February – To coincide with the 20th anniversary of Sky's launch, at 6am, Sunrise begins presenting from a new "multi-purpose" area of the Sky News Centre, formally known as the "shoebox".
15 May – Channel M Breakfast is axed as part of severe cutbacks to programming output and staffing levels at the station.[http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/channel-m-axes-breakfast-show-200905155399/ Channel M axes Breakfast show] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090518091557/http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/channel-m-axes-breakfast-show-200905155399/ |date=18 May 2009 }}, How Do, 15 May 2009
26 November – ITV takes full ownership of GMTV after purchasing Disney's 25% share in the channel.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8380470.stm|title= ITV takes full ownership of GMTV|publisher= BBC News|date= 26 November 2009|access-date= 30 November 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091129041711/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8380470.stm| archive-date= 29 November 2009 | url-status= live}}

2010s

2010
4 March – Penny Smith announces she is to leave GMTV after 17 years to pursue other projects.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8549267.stm|title= GMTV's Penny Smith quits breakfast show|publisher= BBC News|date= 4 March 2010|access-date= 13 March 2010}}
19 April – Adrian Chiles quits the BBC to join ITV and GMTV in a new four-year deal.{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/19/adrian-chiles-itv|title= Adrian Chiles quits BBC for ITV|work= The Guardian|first= Tara|last= Conlan|date= 19 April 2010|access-date= 19 April 2010 | location=London| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100422190143/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/19/adrian-chiles-itv| archive-date= 22 April 2010 | url-status= live}}
21 April – Ben Shephard announces he is to quit GMTV after ten years.
11 June – GMTV announces plans to rebrand itself in September, dropping the GMTV name after 17 years in a £1.5million overhaul. On the same day, presenter Andrew Castle announces his intention to leave the station after ten years.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10291240.stm|title= Andrew Castle quitting GMTV sofa|publisher= BBC|work= BBC News|date= 11 June 2010|access-date= 12 June 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100612221640/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10291240.stm| archive-date= 12 June 2010 | url-status= live}}
20 June – ITV has announced that Christine Bleakley is to join the new breakfast programme to reunite with Adrian Chiles after signing a three-year contract with the broadcaster.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10361533.stm|title= Christine Bleakley to leave BBC for ITV|publisher= BBC|work= BBC News|date= 21 June 2010|access-date= 24 June 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100623021557/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10361533.stm| archive-date= 23 June 2010 | url-status= live}}
9 July – ITV announces the name of its new breakfast television service that will replace GMTV, Daybreak which will launch in September.
3 September – GMTV airs its last edition after 17 years on the air.{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11178594|title= GMTV ends after 17 years on ITV|publisher= BBC|work= BBC News|date= 3 September 2010|access-date= 4 September 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100903200613/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11178594| archive-date= 3 September 2010 | url-status= live}}
6 September – New ITV breakfast show Daybreak begins with former The One Show hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley presenting. The first edition features an interview with the former Prime Minister Tony Blair, while overnight viewing figures published the following day indicate the programme had an audience of over a million.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11213758 |work=BBC News |title=Daybreak launch show lands audience of over 1m |publisher=BBC |date=7 September 2010 |access-date=16 June 2014}}
26 December – The final edition of Toonattik is broadcast.

2011
2 May – The final edition of The World Today in its original format is broadcast on BBC One and BBC News. Its later relaunched as an evening programme in 2024.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011029h

2012
10 April – BBC Breakfast makes its first broadcast from the BBC's new media complex at Salford Quays in Manchester, having moved there from London.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17562255 |publisher=BBC News |title=BBC Breakfast makes Salford move |date=10 April 2012 |access-date=13 April 2012}}
12 June – Ranvir Singh and Matt Barbet are announced as the new presenters of the Daybreak news hour from 6am to 7am.{{cite news|url=http://radiotoday.co.uk/2012/06/former-radio-duo-join-itvs-daybreak/ |title=Former radio duo join ITV's Daybreak |publisher=Radio Today |date=12 June 2012 |access-date=1 July 2012}}
3 September – Daybreak is relaunched with Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly as its main presenters. Overnight figures the following day show it was watched by 600,000 viewers, fewer than the one million who tuned in to watch its first edition in September 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/fewer-viewers-for-daybreak-relaunch-16206721.html |title=Fewer viewers for Daybreak relaunch |newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph |date=4 September 2012 |access-date=17 September 2012}}
21 December – Channel 4 airs the final edition of its music-based breakfast programme Freshly Squeezed.

2013
No events.

2014
3 March – Susanna Reid leaves BBC Breakfast to become a presenter on ITV's Daybreak which will relaunch the following month as Good Morning Britain. She will be joined by Ben Shephard, Charlotte Hawkins and Sean Fletcher.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26351796 |publisher=BBC News |title=Susanna Reid quits BBC for ITV as Daybreak is axed |date=3 March 2014 |access-date=3 March 2014}}
15 March – Kate Garraway confirms she will be part of the Good Morning Britain team when the programme launches the following month.{{cite news|first=Catherine |last=Earp |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a557848/kate-garraway-im-staying-with-daybreak-and-good-morning-britain.html |title=Kate Garraway: 'I'm staying with Daybreak and Good Morning Britain' |work=Digital Spy |date=15 March 2014 |access-date=16 March 2014}}
25 April – Aled Jones and Kate Garraway present the final edition of ITV's Daybreak. Jones begins presenting a new weekend breakfast show, Weekend from the following day.{{cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a566813/daybreak-ends-itvs-morning-show-waves-goodbye.html#~oCuAM7LxrWpmMY |title=Daybreak ends: ITV's morning show waves goodbye |publisher=Digital Spy |date=25 April 2014 |access-date=25 April 2014}}
28 April – Good Morning Britain makes its debut on ITV.{{cite news|first1=John |last1=Plunkett |first2=Tara |last2=Conlan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/apr/25/itv-new-dawn-good-morning-britain-susanna-reid |title=ITV prepares to usher in new dawn with Good Morning Britain |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 April 2014 |access-date=25 April 2014}} The first edition has an average audience of 800,000, just over half of the 1.5 million who tune into BBC Breakfast, but an improvement on ratings for Daybreak.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27203072 |work=BBC News |title=BBC beats ITV in latest breakfast TV battle |publisher=BBC |date=29 April 2014 |access-date=30 April 2014}} However, by 30 April audiences have fallen to 600,000, the average Daybreak viewership.{{cite news|first=John |last=Reynolds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/01/good-morning-britain-audience-itv-daybreak-bbc |title=Good Morning Britain's audience slides to 600,000 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=1 May 2014 |access-date=1 May 2014}}
14 July – BBC Breakfast confirms that Naga Munchetty will leave BBC World News and the 5am hour, formerly known as The World Today, on BBC One to join the presenting team full-time to present shows alongside Charlie Stayt from Thursdays to Saturdays. Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin will continue to present from Mondays to Wednesdays.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28291323 |work=BBC News |title=BBC Breakfast line-up confirmed |publisher=BBC |date=14 July 2014 |access-date=16 July 2014}}

2015
2 September – BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull confirms his intention to leave the programme after fifteen years.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34126389 |title=Bill Turnbull is to leave BBC Breakfast |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=2 September 2015 |access-date=27 September 2015}}
15 October – ITV confirms that Piers Morgan will join Good Morning Britain as a regular member of the presenting team, joining Susanna Reid to present the programme three days a week.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34514686 |title=Piers Morgan to co-present Good Morning Britain |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=13 October 2015 |access-date=14 October 2015}}

2016
26 February – Bill Turnbull presents his final BBC Breakfast programme after fifteen years as a presenter, as he joins Classic FM. Sports presenter Dan Walker is announced as his replacement.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35639252|title=Bill Turnbull: 'Special honour' to present BBC Breakfast|publisher=BBC|work=BBC News|date=26 February 2016|access-date=26 February 2016}}
25 March – A fire in the post room of ITV's London studios temporarily forces Good Morning Britain off the air as people are evacuated from the building and the fire tackled.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35898441 |title=Fire halts Good Morning Britain broadcast |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=25 March 2016 |access-date=25 March 2016}}
6 April – ITV News presenter Mark Austin makes his presenting debut on Good Morning Britain.{{cite news|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/d4kcrg/good-morning-britain--06042016 |title=Good Morning Britain – 06/04/2016 |publisher=Radio Times |access-date=22 April 2016}}
2 September – Eamonn Holmes announces he is to leave Sky News Sunrise after eleven years.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37242862 |title=Eamonn Holmes to leave Sky News Sunrise after 11 years |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=1 September 2016 |access-date=9 July 2017}}
13 October – Eamonn Holmes presents his last Sky News Sunrise after eleven years.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/eamonn-holmes-cut-off-mid-sentence-sky-news-sunrise-farewell |title=Eamonn Holmes cut off mid-sentence during Sky News farewell |newspaper=The Guardian |date=13 October 2016 |access-date=9 July 2017}}
17 October – Sarah-Jane Mee succeeds Eamonn Holmes as co-presenter of Sunrise and is joined by Jonathan Samuels.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/15/sky-news-sarah-jane-mee-eamonn-holmes-sunrise-jonathan-samuels |title=Sky News' Sarah-Jane Mee to replace Eamonn Holmes on Sunrise |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 September 2016 |access-date=13 February 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/17/sky-news-sarah-jane-mee-sexism-sport-sunrise |title=Sky News presenter Sarah-Jane Mee had 'sleepless nights' over sexism in sport |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 October 2016 |access-date=9 July 2017}}

2017
31 October – BBC One and BBC News Channel replace the standard edition of BBC World News at 5am with The Briefing, long-serving business presenter Sally Bundock becomes the main presenter of the now single-headed programme, with her former co-presenter David Eades becoming deputy presenter.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09dcctw |title=BBC The Briefing |publisher=BBC |date=31 October 2017 |access-date=15 December 2020}}

2018
17 January – Sunrise begins broadcasting from Studio 6 at Sky Studios. The new studio includes a virtual space to allow for segments away from the desk area, along with the weather.
13 April – Good Morning Britain and Lorraine are broadcast from The London Studios for the final time, ahead of a move for ITV's daytime programmes to the former BBC Television Centre at White City.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/04/13/news/itv-shows-bid-farewell-to-south-bank-location-ahead-of-refurbishment-1304028/ |title=ITV shows bid farewell to South Bank location ahead of refurbishment |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=13 April 2018 |access-date=8 May 2019}}
16 April – Good Morning Britain and Lorraine are broadcast from Television Centre for the first time.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-morning-loose-women-good-morning-britain-lorraine-new-studios-sets-television-centre_uk_5ad49db4e4b077c89cead7d2|title='This Morning', 'Loose Women' And GMB's New Studios Get Very Mixed Reviews From Viewers|date=16 April 2018|website=HuffPost UK|access-date=8 May 2019}}
2 September – BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show moves to the later timeslot of 10am as part of a shake up of the channel's Sunday morning schedule.{{cite news|last=Tobitt |first=Charlotte |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/andrew-marr-show-moving-to-new-time-as-part-of-broader-revamp-of-sunday-programming-on-bbc-one/ |title=Andrew Marr Show moving to new time as part of 'broader revamp' of Sunday programming on BBC One |publisher=Press Gazette |date=28 August 2018 |access-date=20 February 2019}}

2019
13 October – After 30 years on the air, the final edition of Sky News Sunrise is broadcast. It is replaced the following day with two new shows, The Early Rundown and Sky News @ Breakfast.{{Cite web|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/sky-news-announces-new-morning-slate-as-kay-burley-moves-to-breakfast-show/|title=Sky News announces new morning slate as Kay Burley moves to breakfast show|last=Mayhew|first=Freddy |date=2019-09-23|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-12}}

2020s

2020
6 January – ITV extends its breakfast programming to 10am. The changes see Good Morning Britain being extended by 30 minutes, running until 9am, with Lorraine on air for a full hour, from 9am until 10am. The change removes the historic 9:25am demarcation between breakfast and daytime programming that had existed since breakfast television launched on ITV in 1983.{{cite news|url=https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/11/itv-removes-historic-break-in-daytime.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217213256/https://www.rxtvlog.com/2019/11/itv-removes-historic-break-in-daytime.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=17 December 2019 |title=ITV removes historic quirk in major schedule overhaul |date=12 November 2019 |access-date=6 January 2020 |publisher=RXTV Log}}
23 September – The weekday editions of Sky News @ Breakfast are renamed Kay Burley.
10 December – Sky News Breakfast replaces Kay Burley after Burley stepped back from presenting the show for six months, as a result of breaching London's tier 2 coronavirus restrictions.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/10/kay-burley-off-air-at-sky-news-for-six-months-over-covid-rule-breach|title=Kay Burley off air at Sky News for six months over Covid rule breach|date=10 December 2020|website=The Guardian|access-date=10 December 2020}}

2021
14 June – The Great British Breakfast starts on the newly launched GB News channel.{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/14/gb-news-the-great-british-breakfast-launch-plagued-by-sound-issues-14766375/|title=GB News' The Great British Breakfast launch plagued by sound issues|first=Alicia|last=Adejobi|date=14 June 2021|accessdate=20 June 2021}}
15 September – Louise Minchin co-presents her final edition of BBC Breakfast.{{cite news|title=Louise Minchin co-presents her final BBC Breakfast |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58569518|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=15 September 2021}}
20 December – ITV confirms that Good Morning Britain will go on hiatus over the Christmas period as a result of rapid increase in cases of COVID-19. A special edition of the programme is planned for Christmas Day, but with no programme on 29, 30 and 31 December. Good Morning Britain returned on 4 January 2022.{{cite news|title=Good Morning Britain to go on hiatus over Christmas due to COVID|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/good-morning-britain-christmas-covid-newsupdate/|work=Radio Times|date=20 December 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/itv-good-morning-britain-scraps-22521841|title = GMB axes shows between Christmas and New Year due to Covid fears|date = 20 December 2021}}

2022
3 January – GB News launches a new breakfast show, Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/eamonn-holmes-gb-news-debut-praise-b974693.html|title=Eamonn Holmes vows to do things differently as GB News debut wows fans|first=Lily|last=Waddell|date=3 January 2022|website=www.standard.co.uk|accessdate=5 January 2022}}
4 January – GB News starts broadcasting an audio simulcast on DAB radio; Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel becomes the first television breakfast show also to air on radio in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|title=Date set for the launch of GB News Radio in January 2022|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2021/12/date-set-for-the-launch-of-gb-news-radio-in-january-2022/|work=Radio Today|date=21 December 2021}}
8 January – GB News launches The Stephen and Anne Breakfast, airing at weekends.{{cite news|url=https://www.atvtoday.co.uk/192163-gbnews/|title=GB News launch radio service and new programmes|work=ATV Today|first=Shaun|last=Linden|date=5 January 2022|accessdate=15 January 2022}}
4 September – Launch of the politics programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One. Guests on the opening edition include Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, as well as First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62779615|title=What I'll be asking Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on Sunday|work=BBC News |date=3 September 2022|accessdate=3 September 2022}}

2023
No events.

2024
2 January – BBC Breakfast's running time on weekdays is extended by 15 minutes and now ends at 9.30am.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-news-announces-savings-and-digital-reinvestment-plans/ | title=BBC News announces savings and digital reinvestment plans }}
8 January – The weekday editions of Sky News Breakfast are refreshed. The programme starts at the earlier time of 6am, and new presenters join the programme.[https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-sky-news-breakfast-starts-earlier-adds-presenters-and-has-a-brand-new-look Sky News Breakfast starts earlier, adds presenters and has a brand new look]

2025
03 January – The BBC News Channel stops simulcasting BBC Breakfast during the week, instead airing the global news service which, at that time of day, broadcasts rolling news and Business Today. Breakfast will continue to air on the BBC News Channel at the weekend.{{cite web|title=BBC News serves up changes at Breakfast|url=https://rxtvinfo.com/2025/bbc-news-serves-up-changes-to-breakfast/|website=RXTV|date=13 January 2025}}

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