Daybreak relaunch with Lorraine and Aled

There is nothing to stop them removing the programme altogether, but there is still a separate 'Channel 3 Breakfast Licence' which presumably has specific content requirements.

They could replace it with anything that complies with the licence.

This is an extract from the 2012 submission to DCMS by Ofcom regarding the 'Licensing of Channel 3 and
Channel 5'

Don't ask me why, but I have a funny feeling a big announcement regarding Daybreak will happen pretty soon. That article about Eamonn has spurred it on a lot more aswell.

ISTR that Channel 5 simulcast Sky News Sunrise for a few years, is there anything to stop ITV doing the same?

After all, BBC One/NC simulcast Breakfast.

Why would/do channel 5 simulcast sunrise? I thought all their news gatering was controlled by ITN

That was when their news was produced by SKY.

Ben and Eamonn? lets just go the whole hog and get Penny back and call it erm GMTV

Channel 5 left ITN for their news provision for a while, and instead used Sky News as their news provider. However Sky and Channel 5 negotiated an end to this after Richard Desmond took over at Channel 5, and the contract returned to ITN.

It's very hard to tell if there is any validity with that story, however The Mirror have had scoops before I.e. when Adrian and Christine got axed and Lorraine's promotion. As Cando, says I find it unlikely that Eamonn would leave Sky News given his 3 year contract running up to 2015, even though it would be great for him to return to the Daybreak sofa.

The reality is that even if Eamonn and Ben did return there is no guarantee whatsoever that ratings would improve. Viewers wouldn't simply switch from Sky Sunrise to Daybreak because there was a change in presenters. The ratings will probably still decline as the breakfast TV market continues to shrink which raises the question over the show's future come October 2014.

At the moment, I think Aled and Lorraine are doing a fine job, but there not everyone's cup of tea. I think Aled comes across better when he presents with Kate, Helen and Ranvir. As I've said before it's content not the presenters that's the issue. Unless the content is improved after 7am then the programme will continue to suffer poor ratings.

Originally Channel 5 simulcasted the ITN News Channel. Then in about 2002(?) they started simulcasting Sunrise, even though the rest of their news output was produced by ITN.

And all that was to fulfill a license commitment to a an early morning News service, which was originally fulfilled by a programme not dissimilar to RI:SE (but much shorter). I think it was called 5 News Early or something.

5 News Early lasted until 2000, then a shorter 5 News Breakfast aired until sometime in 2001.

Sky News didn't produce 5 News until 2005, but may have shown Sunrise before then.

There was a time when Sky News' Sunrise was shown only on a Sunday, 0600-0700 I think.

They were definately showing Sunrise on Channel 5 in 2004 as I used to watch it before going to college.