30th anniversary of first regular Breakfast television

I've heard a lot about Good Morning Calendar over the years, but didn't realise it was only 15 minutes long and starting at 8.30am, when most people doing a normal working day would have left the house!

Also from the clip it seems more like a radio show on tv (one presenter going through the news and papers) rather than an actual TV programme, which I guess it how they decided to pitch it as there was nothing else to base it on.

Why is ATV listed as showing "Thames" at 12.00?

Because ATV were showing the same programme as Thames. It was (and still is) normal in newspaper listings where more than one region's programmes are shown on the page. It saves space not having to keep printing the same lists of programmes over and over!

I see, I'm used to seeing "as London" or similar.

It's also worth noting that, in 1980 or so, BBC Scotland simulcast Good Morning Scotland on TV and radio north of the Border. It was very much a radio programme on the telly....with shots of a tape going round on a machine if a pre-recorded insert was being broadcast. And the presenters wore headphones. It was only on TV for a week.

Although that doesn't really explain why suddenly at 6:35 they all say ATV, even though Thames were running the same programme at the same time.

Wasn't Thames still beside everyone with crossroads?

Good thinking, but it's the same for other programmes later on in the schedule also.

"The Sunday Post" did that for many years as they used to carry a list of the regions at the foot of their TV listings page. If programmes being shown (or a part of the schedule) was the same as that of STV, then it was simply listed "As Scottish". No doubt there were those people who thought that "As Scottish"was an actual programme!

Interesting too to see Border closing down quite late on these listings. They had a tendency around that period to shut up shop for the night any time after 11pm.

Border never closed down before 12.30 for the rest of 1977, and it seems 1978 is the same. until Sept/Oct when it closes at Midnight.

I still found it strange why there never included Schools TV on these listings.

Aside from Crossroads and Beryl's Lot, the schedules for ATV and LWT were completely different that Friday, and most stations seemed to take the ATV schedule. As for the 6.35-7.30 slot, when London and ATV were showing the same programmes, I'd suppose it was down to the weekday/weekend split. It took less space to write "6.35, ATV." than "6.35, Thames. 7.00, London".

(This is all speculation.)

They might as well have said ATV all the way through if that was the case