BBC Breakfast - 2018 Refresh

It’s a programme not a show

If it's shown to an audience it's a show.
Strictly speaking, a programme is a schedule or a list.

See the clip of Huw Edwards on the occasion when a power cut took the Six of air, he referred to the Six as "the show". If that is, then Breakfast certainly would be.

If you look at en.oxforddictionaries.com, A 'Show' can be defined as ' A light entertainment programme on television or radio ', whilst a 'Programme' can be defined as ' A presentation or item on television or radio, especially one broadcast regularly between stated times '.

However, on the thesaurus section of the same website, synonyms of a 'Programme' can include, but are not limited to: broadcast, production, show , presentation, transmission, performance, telecast, simulcast, videocast, podcast .

Either way, this seems to be a slightly silly debate, especially considering that the term a person uses to refer to a show/programme, can also vary on the person's idiolect.

I would suggest that the use of "Programme" to refer to the entire output of a station - eg BBC Light Programme, Third Programme - is missing from that definition, which makes the authority of the rest of it debatable

I've never liked 'radio show' as a term. It's non visual, there's nothing being shown


I suppose that derives from a programme of events, like a theatre programme

And that's how we ended up with BBC Sounds.

You've too much time on your hands.

You could use Show to refer to a specific episode while program to refer to the entire series (every show - not in the UK sense).

It's promo. Not trail.

No, we ended up with that because they're all programmes, but not all radio programmes

The One Programme doesn't quite have that ring to it...