Thank-you for posting. I remember watching this on the first day of my first term at University. Within a couple of months, the ‘iron curtain’ was gone, as was Nigel Lawson. Great times.
Thank you so much for sharing these BBC Breakfast Time/News clips! What a great era of television making and innovation despite the mixed viewing reactions! I personally loved BBC Breakfast News from 1993-1999 virtual era although some of regional opt-in/out stings from the earlier eras were pretty fantastic too! It would be great if you could share some of these too for nostalgia’s sake!! Best Wishes, Nick
After the cool,calm&collected BBC Breakfast Time which I absolutely loved and was 💯 better than the original version of TV AM/Good Morning Britain. Now it's the other way around and I much prefer the current version of Good Morning Britain. Daybreak was the brand new name (and ITV Breakfast Show was at one time going to be the new name )but they went back to GMB.
BBC Breakfast News, especially in the 1989 - 1993 version was produced superbly. The quality of the programme never slipped. It was just too heavy, dull and off putting for the regular viewer at that time of day. Alright for business people, yuppies and the upper classes, but just snooze fest for everyone else, who all moved to TV-am or just listened to the copious amounts of breakfast radio shows available in 1989.
The problem is it has become too sloppy now. They never hit the hour precisely like they do here and can often be very late going to the regions. Also frustrating that the 1/2 hour headlines have now been dropped.
@@jameswindle7065 BBC Breakfast News back in 1989 was simply a repeated half hour of news. Just look at the original schedule. 7.00am there was national news headlines, news digest, sports news, business news, a look at the papers, followed by regional news and weather. Then at 7.30am they did the whole thing over again. Yes all of it was live and updated, but it was the same half hour segment. So viewers left, and went to TV-am where apart from the hourly and half hourly news, there was a wide variety on offer between 6am and 9.25am every day. BBC just caved in and did "bread and butter" broadcasting of pure news, which led to TV-am gaining around 75% of the breakfast TV audience, with BBC left with 15% and Channel 4 and BBC 2 sharing the rest.
@@jameswindle7065 It's about time the BBC did a complete revamp of Breakfast. That jaded old set, the false backdrop and the fact that is utterly, utterly boring. And it also needs to go back down to London.
@@robertcomer2767 Agreed and get back to the 10 min concise news summaries at the top of the hour instead of integrating long winded and boring interviews.
Agreed. I remember Frank Bough saying that the first version of Breakfast Time had more life and could and should have been adapted but they just got harder and colder with each revamp. This kind of news programme might have worked on BBC2 but a more lightweight approach was really needed for BBC1.
It was to get away from the name Breakfast Time. Back then, when people heard the name Breakfast Time they remembered the fluffy and relaxed version with the vile hypocrite Frank Bough and poor Selia Scott at the helm on the uncomfortable leather couch. Breakfast Time name was retained with the reformatted version in November 1986, but the name still had an attachment to the classic era, and so the BBC wanted viewers to forget that era, and so ditched the name in 1989.
