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Breakfast (New Zealand Television Programme)
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Breakfast is a New Zealand
morning news and talk show
airing weekday mornings on TV ONE, produced by ONE News. Debuting on 11 August 1997, it was the first of its genre
in New Zealand. Originally a two hour show, it has expanded to include a Saturday edition. The weekday broadcasts have also been expanded, by half an hour.
Breakfasts dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until 2008, when TV3
launched Sunrise
. Sunrise struggled against Breakfast however and went off air because of finance issues in April 2010 leaving Breakfast the only morning news and talk show in New Zealand again. Breakfast is on a current streak of being the highest-rated morning news and talk show every week since 11 August 1997.
is presented from a location around the country, usually where an event is happening. On the hour business news is also presented.
Mostly, the show has interviews with newsmakers or TVNZ reporters on the day's headlines. The first hour of the show is devoted to news stories, and the rest of the show has entertainment/light-hearted/special interest segments.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
morning news and talk show
Breakfast television
Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...
airing weekday mornings on TV ONE, produced by ONE News. Debuting on 11 August 1997, it was the first of its genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
in New Zealand. Originally a two hour show, it has expanded to include a Saturday edition. The weekday broadcasts have also been expanded, by half an hour.
Breakfasts dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until 2008, when TV3
TV3 (New Zealand)
TV3 is a New Zealand commercial television network, owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. Launched on 26 November 1989, the first private television network in New Zealand...
launched Sunrise
Sunrise (New Zealand TV program)
Sunrise was a New Zealand breakfast television news and current affairs show which was broadcast live on TV3. It aired from 7.00am to 9.00am weekdays, and the show featured all the latest current affairs, News, Sport, Business and Weather...
. Sunrise struggled against Breakfast however and went off air because of finance issues in April 2010 leaving Breakfast the only morning news and talk show in New Zealand again. Breakfast is on a current streak of being the highest-rated morning news and talk show every week since 11 August 1997.
Anchors
- Corin Dann and Petra BagustPetra BagustPetra Bagust is a New Zealand television presenter, well known as host of New Zealand program What's Really in Our...? and previously What's Really in Our Food?, which first aired on TV3 in June 2008.Bagust is currently co-presenting TVNZ's Breakfast....
(2011–present) - Paul Henry and Pippa Wetzell (2007–2010)
- Paul Henry and Kay GregoryKay GregoryKay Gregory is a journalist and former presenter at Television New Zealand. She previously hosted the Breakfast show with Paul Henry. On an episode of Breakfast, Kay revealed she is an "Ox" , despite Paul's guess that she is a "Warthog"....
(2004–2007) - Mike HoskingMike HoskingMike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio journalist and presenter. He currently works as the weekly Breakfast host on radio station Newstalk ZB.He has lived and worked as a broadcaster in Wellington, Christchurch and currently, Auckland...
and Kate HawkesbyKate HawkesbyKate Hawkesby is a New Zealand radio announcer and television presenter who currently works as a substitute breakfast news reader for Newstalk ZB...
(2001–2003) - Mike HoskingMike HoskingMike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio journalist and presenter. He currently works as the weekly Breakfast host on radio station Newstalk ZB.He has lived and worked as a broadcaster in Wellington, Christchurch and currently, Auckland...
and Alison MauAlison MauAlison "Ali" Mau is an Australian-born New Zealand television journalist and presenter. she is employed at Television New Zealand as permanent backup host for the Breakfast programme and co-host of TVNZ show Fair Go.-Career:Mau's first reporting job was for the Warracknabeal Herald in northern...
(1997–1999) - Mike HoskingMike HoskingMike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio journalist and presenter. He currently works as the weekly Breakfast host on radio station Newstalk ZB.He has lived and worked as a broadcaster in Wellington, Christchurch and currently, Auckland...
and Susan Wood (1997–1999)
News Anchors
- Peter WilliamsPeter Williams (broadcaster)Peter Williams is a New Zealand television presenter and sports writer. Williams was born in Geraldine, New Zealand. He has three adult children and one grandchild and lives in Auckland....
- Alison MauAlison MauAlison "Ali" Mau is an Australian-born New Zealand television journalist and presenter. she is employed at Television New Zealand as permanent backup host for the Breakfast programme and co-host of TVNZ show Fair Go.-Career:Mau's first reporting job was for the Warracknabeal Herald in northern...
- Rawdon ChristieRawdon ChristieRawdon Christie is an English New Zealand news reporter.Christie was born in London. He attended Marlborough College, and then Edinburgh University, where he gained a Bachelor of Music degree....
- Neil WakaNeil WakaNeil Waka is a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist. He has been in broadcasting for 25 years beginning in radio as a news and current affairs journalist before moving into Television...
Reporters
- Alison Pugh - AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
- Lucas de Jong - WellingtonWellingtonWellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
- Charlotte Bellis - ChristchurchChristchurchChristchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
Saturday Breakfast
On 3 September 2011 TVNZ launched Saturday Breakfast, airing between 7-9am on a Saturday morning.Show format
10 minutes of news, sport and weather is presented every half hour between 6:30 and 8:30. Weather, presented by Tamati CoffeyTamati Coffey
Tamati Coffey is a New Zealand television host and presenter. He is the roving weather presenter for TVNZ's breakfast television programme Breakfast. He has also worked on children's television show What Now, and was the winner of New Zealand's Dancing With The Stars in 2009...
is presented from a location around the country, usually where an event is happening. On the hour business news is also presented.
Mostly, the show has interviews with newsmakers or TVNZ reporters on the day's headlines. The first hour of the show is devoted to news stories, and the rest of the show has entertainment/light-hearted/special interest segments.