BBC breakfast television first broadcast

Title

BBC breakfast television first broadcast

Genre

Discussion; News bulletin; Special

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:10:18

Description

Frank Bough, Selina Scott and Nick Ross present the first broadcast of BBC breakfast television- Breakfast Time on BBC1, from 06.30 on 17/01/83. Presenter of NBC’s Today show, Jane Pauley and comedian Sir Harry Secombe are in the studio. Debbie Rix reads the news and Francis Wilson the weather. With best wishes from fellow presenters: Michael Munroe(?) and Kerri-Anne Wright (now Kerri-Anne Kennerley), Good Morning Australia; Pamela Wallingford(?) from Canada; Bill Curtis and Diane Sawyer, CBS Morning News; David Hartman and Joan Lunden, Good Morning America; presenters from Hong Kong and Tokyo. Also theme tune heard.

Contributors

Selina Scott; Frank Bough; BBC; Harry Secombe; Diane Sawyer; Nick Ross; Jane Pauley; Francis Wilson; Michael Munroe(?); David Hartman; Joan Lunden; Bill Curtis; Debbie Rix; Kerri-Anne Wright; Pamela Wallingford(?)

Keywords

Weather; Television; BBC; Broadcasting; Television programmes; News flow; Television news programmes; Breakfast Time; Body weight; Television presentation

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