TV-am, the world's first breakfast TV station

TV-am, the world's first Breakfast TV station

TV-am was the world's first ever TV station making programmes just for breakfast viewers. On air between 1st February 1983 and 31st December 1992 the company's flagship programme was GOOD MORNING BRITAIN.

Now TV-am is back! We're on the web at www.tv-am.org.uk and plan to be an accurate source of information about the station for students, fans, researchers, journalists and programme makers.

We'd also love to hear from you. Did you work at TV-am? Did you appear on the programmes? Were you a regular viewer or fan - what are your memories of ITV's first breakfast TV station. Pages will soon be appearing on the site so please keep checking for updates.

TV-am and the TV-am logo are copyright. (C) TV-am is a registered trade mark. (R)

Just to correct you. TV-am was not the world's first breakfast television station.

BBC Breakfast Time began in January, followed by TV-am in Feb.

It wasn't even the first commercial breakfast TV station in the UK - that went to Good Morning Calendar.

Good Morning Calendar and Breakfast Time were programmes, not stations though.

Ahaa. That's where my logic fails then, I stand corrected.

Yes, we don't need to be corrected as TV-am WAS the first breakfast Tv station in the world. We are a company that made breakfast TV programmes. BBC TV launched Breakfast Time on 17th January 1983 - that was a programme, not a TV station. Good Morning Calendar was a programme, not a TV station. It was an experiment by YTV in the late 70s.

We are a company? Shouldn't that be 'were a company' or 'was a company' as I thought it no longer exists?

I like the idea!!!! sound great.

so Good Morning Calendar was UK first Early moring TVshow?
then BBC breakfast time
then Tv-am

and was GMTV the (worlds) second Breakfast TV station?
and was UK the one of the last place to get breakfast telly?

The phrase 'worlds first breakfast tv station' is a little meaningless as there have only been 2. No-where else in the world (AFAIK) has gone down the odd route of having a seperate TV station on a network broadcasting for a few hours every morning (or at weekends for that matter)

By the way, I assume you've seen this: http://www.cjetech.co.uk/tvam/

To clear up any confusion once and for all, we are the official owners of TV-am - the name, logo, their copyright and 15 UK registered trade marks. We exist now to provide accurate information about the company's history, mainly for journalists and media professionals, using our massive archive of documents, photos, press cuttings, etc. Sadly a lot of the 'fan' websites that exist on the internet are littered with inaccuracies about TV-am and we want to provide better information. The archive of TV-am programmes is owned by Moving Image Communications Limited.

So you are Moving Image Communications Limited - yeah?

My understanding is that Moving Image only own the archive of programmes. Everything else like logos, remaining shares etc. were transferred to Crockfords ( a betting company I think) when the reverse take over of TV-am's assets took place in 1993 or 94. The building was sold on to MTV Europe shortly afterwards. A check with the copyright/trade mark people show that all logos and company names are still registered with a company....so I'm guessing this is who these people claim to be!

Oh and Moving Image recently lauched their own TV-am site with the help of Ian White (BBC Look North) and David Claridge (Roland Rat) www.tv-am.net

What a stupid question. As quoted to Tv-am: "The WORLD's first breakfast television station"