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Michael Parkinson (1935-2023)
Published 17 August 2023
Interviewer, presenter and journalist Michael Parkinson has died
How the new look will change ITV
Published 22 September 2022
The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?
Tuning in with the winners
Published 22 September 2022
Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am
ITN launches its early-morning news service
Published 13 December 2021
A new programme and a new role for ITN as breakfast television launches on Channel 4
Breakfast with Anna
Published 15 October 2021
The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror
Brearley opens, but Chataway’s in the running
Published 19 July 2021
Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?
Wake up to breakfast TV!
Published 14 October 2019
Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983
Keeping them Wide Awake
Published 15 October 2018
Inside TV-am’s popular children’s magazine show, the Wide Awake Club, in 1988
Breakfast TV: Snap, Crackle or Flop?
Published 25 June 2018
Will TV-am be a success? Peter Jay says yes. Others tell the Sunday Express Magazine in 1981 that it’s a disaster in the making
Waking up to Television
Published 7 June 2018
Looking forward to the arrival of TV-am, later in 1983
Losers search for the silver lining
Published 31 May 2018
What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992
Victorian Television
Published 10 May 2018
The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction
✎ Le premier programme matinal en Europe
Published 21 November 2016
French television looks on in amazement as les rosbifs interrupt breakfast by adding television
A good breakfast
Published 1 September 2001
David Hastings looks at the launch of breakfast television