Breakfast + GMTV

which of these breakfast shows is your fav?

I'm not sure. See, I love GMTV Today because it is fresh + informal - then again Eamonn's gone.

Whereas I like how Breakfast has a more formal feel, that is the BBC all over. And they have the great and almighty Moira Stuart. They also have Natasha - grrrrrr!

Really don't like her.

What do you like to wake up to?

Well it has to be GMTV. Many people go on about how trashy it is, but then again, they also watch it. I'd never automatically go to BBC Breakfast, though now I don't know if I'll continue watching GMTV. I mean, the dog awful Ben Shepard and the wooden Andrew Castle.

why did the IBA not give the contract to ITN all those years back? Did they give a reason?

Breakfast definitely. For starters it's on 365 days a year and gives an adequate amount of news, sport, business, weather and entertainment that is required in a morning. Also Breakfast is less tabloid based with their entertainment (which is for three quarters of an hour not most of the programme) not focusing on who won 'Big Brother' or the likes.

As a suggestion, why not put a poll in the thread?

Seeing as Eammon's gone, I'd say Channel 4's breakfast programming.

Hate them both. The BBC's effort is tedious, and full of absolute nonsense which I wouldn't expect would even be newsworthy enough to make a regional news programme. GMTV goes too far the other way, and appears to be directed straight at the lowest common denominator.

I prefer Sky News in the morning - it balances fresh presentation, a bit of banter and important news.

Breakfast really is a shaddow of its former self - bu ti can't quite stop watching it because it does do discussions and analysis fairly well - something Sunrise doesn't manage.

GM TV is better, Breakfast is almost lifeless

From Jeremy Potter's Indpendent Television in Britain book - Volume 4

ITN itself clearly seemed the best qualifed of the applicants. But the award of the contract to a subsidiary of the fiften existing contractors was likely to precipitate an outcry in the press and parliament; and opponents argued that, with it's continuning commitments to ITV and a new service on Channel Four, ITN was already in danger of over-reaching itself and becoming too powerful.

When questioned about providing a news service to a successful rival applicant, ITN's reprsentatives foresaw problems in collaborating with a company which would be a competitor for revenue. A share in the service with another winner would not be acceptable, they declared.

The award was announced in the following terms: Despite the unquestioned strengths of ITN, the Authority's eventual decisoin was that one of the new contenders, TV-AM offered the highest promise. In fact, ITN had been eliminated in the semi-final, and the loser by a shorter head was AM Television.

It was a desire for more airtime for news which had motivated members to make the offer and at ITN there was anger at the Authority's failure to accept that.

Breakfast is too newsy,but it's better than GMTV.

Can't stand either really, though the Weekend Breakfast's from News 24 are an improvement, because there's no Natasha or Dermot.

More of an ITV News Channel person if I'm up before 9am on weekdays.

I usually opt for Breakfast, albeit not always.