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Breakfast television (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and United Kingdom ) or morning show (United States and Canada), is a type of news and entertainment television program, broadcast live in the morning (typically between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.). Often hosted by a small team of male and female hosts, morning shows typically target the combined demographic of people getting ready for work and school, and stay-at-home adults and parents. The world's first breakfast / morning show on national television is Today, which set the tone for the genre and began broadcasting on 14 January 1952, on the U.S. television network NBC. Nearly 60 years later, the Today Show still remains number one in the morning rating and since it's start many other stations around the world followed NBC's lead and copied their successful format.

Format and style

Breakfast-television programs normally feature regular news briefs and information reports on business and the stock market, and weather and commuter travel ("traffic" in North American usage) — particularly in the "early half", when the bulk of the workforce demographic is still home. Later in the program, programming will shift to more homemaker-oriented entertainment programming, to reflect a dominantly female demographic. The time in between information segments is normally filled with discussions of major news stories, reviews of the day's papers, and entertainment news — news regarding media celebrities. Morning-show hosts are typically regarded as media personalities, and are likewise often regarded as celebrities. Despite these programs often being produced by news organizations, their style is geared toward popularity and demographic appeal. Traditionally they are fronted by two presenters (one male, one female) on a sofa surrounded by a warmly colored (but not overwhelming) set.

History

United States

The first breakfast-television program was Three To Get Ready, a local production broadcast by WPTZ from 1950 until 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of its hosts was comedian Ernie Kovacs. Although Three To Get Ready (named after WPTZ's frequency of channel 3) was mostly entertainment-oriented, the program did feature some news and weather segments. Its success prompted NBC to look at doing something similar on a national basis. Following NBC's Today lead with the first breakfast-television program to be aired nationally, many other channels around the world followed and copied their enormously successful format with news. lifestyle features and personality. CBS had a seemingly endless rotation of failed breakfast television shows. Though it initially tried to mimic Today when it debuted a morning show in a two-hour format in 1954, one year later, the show was cut to an hour because of the debut of the children's TV series Captain Kangaroo. The network abandoned the morning show in 1957. In the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, the "CBS Morning News" aired a straight one-hour morning newscast that had a high rate of turnover among its anchors. In January 1979 came the innovative "___day Morning" series, which focused more on lifestyle and features reporting; this format, however, was moved exclusively to Sundays after two years, and still airs under the title CBS News Sunday Morning. It was not until the early 1980s that Captain Kangaroo ended its run, allowing CBS to expand its morning show to a full two hours. However, the high rate of turnover among anchors returned. An ill-fated comedic revamp of the show, The Morning Program, took place in 1987. After that, however, came This Morning, which has so far had the longest run of a CBS morning show. This Morning ceded to the current show, The Early Show, in 1999. ABC's morning show, Good Morning America, debuted in 1975 as AM America and adopted its current name and format later that year. It has traditionally run in second place (ahead of CBS but behind Today). Since the 1980s, a separate show, Live with Regis and Kelly, has been produced and distributed by ABC's syndication wing, primarily for ABC stations. Fox, the last of the "Big Four" networks, does not have a morning show. The CW offers the independently produced The Daily Buzz for a morning show, but only on its small-market stations. Cable news outlets have adopted the morning show format as well. Fox & Friends and American Morning follow the networks' morning show format on Fox News Channel and CNN respectively. MSNBC's Morning Joe follows a format more reminiscent of talk radio and is the only conservative show in the network's otherwise liberal lineup. Also following the "talk radio on TV" format is Fox Business Network's Imus in the Morning (which itself was aired on MSNBC until 2007) and ESPN2's Mike and Mike in the Morning. The Weather Channel introduced its own morning show, Wake Up With Al, featuring Today weatherman Al Roker, which supplements its regular weather-information program, Your Weather Today. Local news stations began producing their own morning shows in the 1970s, though more traditional newscasts began taking hold in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They began as one-hour local newscasts airing immediately before the national shows. However, since that time, they have slowly expanded, either by pushing an earlier start time or by adding additional hours on sister stations, thus competing with the network shows. A typical start time for a local morning show was pushed back from 6 a.m. to 5 a.m. over the course of the late 1990s. During the mid-2000s, the addition of hours on sister stations became popular. In recent years, however, the trend of earlier news has returned in the early 2010s, as stations have begun experimenting with 4:30 a.m. and even 4:00 a.m. newscasts in some major markets, pushing local news further into what traditionally is known as an overnight graveyard slot. TV News for Early Risers (or Late-to-Bedders) New York Times, 31 August 2010

United Kingdom

In the U.K., after a six-week trial-run on the regional ITV station Yorkshire Television, the Independent Broadcasting Authority considered breakfast television so important that it created an entire franchise for it, the only national ITV franchise except for news provider ITN. This franchise was awarded to TV-am, a breakfast-television station. However, delays to TV-am's launch meant that the BBC was able to launch its own program, Breakfast Time on 17 January 1983. TV-am, with Daybreak and Good Morning Britain being its flagship programs, launched just two weeks later on 1 February 1983. TV-am found it hard to survive at first because of a format that was starchy and formal compared to the BBC's more-relaxed magazine style and a reliance on advertising income from a timeslot where people were not accustomed to watching television. However, it eventually flourished only to lose its license in 1993 to GMTV, who outbid them.

Morning-television shows

The following is a country-ordered list of breakfast-television programs, past and present, with indication of a program's producing network or channel:

Argentina

Australia

Current Past

Austria

  • Café Puls — PULS 4, simulcast on ProSieben Austria and Sat.1 Österreich since 2005

Azerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegowina

Brazil

Canada

Global & E! - local stations ( CICT (Calgary), CITV (Edmonton), CHCH (Hamilton), CIII (Toronto) and CHAN (Vancouver)) produce their own local morning newscasts
  • All five affiliates air their morning newscasts from 5:30-9:00 am
  • Global Edmonton and Global Calgary each air Saturday morning newscasts from 8:00-10:00 am, and Global BC from 7:00-10:00 am
  • Global BC airs a Sunday morning newscast from 8:00-10:00 am
  • Global Quebec used to air a weekday morning newscast, but it was halted in February 2008

Chile

There are other regional morning shows in Chile.

China

Colombia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

  • Guten Morgen Deutschland (ended 1994) — RTL
  • Morgenmagazin (since 1992) — ARD/ ZDF
  • Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen (since 1987) — Sat.1 (program started as Guten Morgen mit Sat.1 and was later renamed Deutschland Heute Morgen)

Greece

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

Indonesia

  • Seputar Indonesia Pagi — RCTI
  • Go Spot — RCTI
  • Indonesia Pagi - SUN TV Network
  • Warta Nusantara — TVRI
  • Metro Pagi — Metro TV
  • Kabar Pagi — tvOne
  • Apa Kabar Indonesia Pagi — tvOne

Ireland

Israel

  • The World This Morning (HaOlam HaBoker, Since 2006) — Reshet, Arutz 2
  • A New Day (Yom Hadash, Since 2006) — Keshet, Arutz 2
  • Every Morning (Kol Boker, Since 2004) — Arutz 10
  • Reshet on the Morning (Reshet Al HaBoker, 1996–2006) — Reshet, Arutz 2
  • The Morning Show (Tohnit HaBoker, 1996–2006) — Keshet, Arutz 2
  • Telad Coffee (Café Telad, 1997–2005) — Telad, Arutz 2
  • Good Morning Israel (Boker Tov Yisrael, 1990–2003) — Channel 1

Italy

Japan

Malaysia

  • ''Selamat Pagi Malaysia - TV1 (1985–1993, weekends only; 1994-2008 daily, 2009- as weekdays only)
  • ''Hujung Minggu Malaysia - TV1 (2009-, weekends only)
  • Hello on Two - TV2 (2004-, Monday to Thursday only)
  • ''Malaysia Hari Ini - TV3 (1994- )
  • The Breakfast Show - NTV7 (2006- )
  • Hot FM AM Krew on 8TV - 8TV (2007-, live studio simulcast of Hot FM's breakfast show)
  • Nasi Lemak Kopi O - TV9 (2008-, Friday to Sunday only)

Malta

  • Bonġu — TVM
  • La Qomna, Qomna — NET
  • ONE Breakfast — ONE

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Pakistan

Panama

Philippines

Current

Past

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Russia

Current Past
  • Good Morning, Moscow ( MTK, 1991–1997, closed because of MTK channel refurbishment (now "3 kanal"), replaced by Mood breakfast show)

Serbia

Singapore

Spain

Sri Lanka

Slovakia

Current Past

Slovenia

Sweden

Thailand

  • TV3 - Morning Talk () (since , 6:00–8:30 am)
  • TV5 - Good Morning Siam () (since , 6:00–7:00 am)
  • CH7 - This Morning at Mochit () (since , 6:00–7:45 am)
  • MCOT - Chao Khao Khon Khon Khao Chao () (since , 6:00–8:00 am)
  • NBT - Morning News () (since 1988, 6:00–8:00 am)
  • Thai PBS - Morning News () (launched , 6:00–7:30 am)
Some of program are no English name so it will name from Thai instead

Trinidad and Tobago

United Kingdom

Current Past The station TV-am ran several programmes (1983–1992) (including Daybreak, Good Morning Britain, et al.) — ITV licensee

United States

Venezuela

Vietnam

None

Notes

See also

External links

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