ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited (previously known as
GMTV
GMTV (an acronym for Good Morning Television), now legally known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited, was the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 ...
Limited) is the national
ITV breakfast television
Breakfast television (Europe, Canada, and Australia) or morning show (United States) is a type of news or infotainment television programme that broadcasts live in the morning (typically scheduled between 5:00 and 10:00a.m., or if it is a l ...
licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of
ITV plc
ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom.
ITV plc is listed on th ...
in November 2009.
The breakfast license runs daily from 6:00 am – 9:25 am. On weekdays, ''Lorraine'' runs through the franchise end time of 9:25am, when ITV Breakfast hands over control to the
ITV Network
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passi ...
(consisting of
ITV and
STV
STV may refer to:
Television
* Satellite television
** Direct-broadcast satellite television (DBSTV)
Channels and stations
* STV (TV channel), the brand name of ITV broadcasters in central and northern Scotland
** Scottish Television, now le ...
).
''GMTV'', as an on-screen brand name, ended on 3 September 2010, with the newly-rebranded ITV Breakfast launching new weekday breakfast programmes ''
Daybreak'' and ''
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of G ...
'' on 6 September 2010. In March 2014, it was announced ''Daybreak'' had been axed amid poor ratings. The programme was replaced on Monday 28 April 2014 by ''
Good Morning Britain'', reprising the title of a previous ITV's early-morning programme. The ''Lorraine'' segment has not been affected by the changes.
At weekends, ITV Breakfast airs children's programming, a
simulcast
Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programmes/programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simult ...
of the
CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which ...
channel.
The talk show ''
Weekend'' was broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays at 8:30am until 2017 when it didn't return after the Christmas break. It was hosted by
Aled Jones
Aled Jones, (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister, he reached widespread fame during the mid-1980s. Since then he has worked in television with the BBC and ITV, and radio (for ...
. Various other similar talk shows have aired in this slot, including ''
Martin & Roman's Weekend Best!
''Martin & Roman's Weekend Best!'' (formerly ''Martin & Roman's Sunday Best!'') is a British weekend breakfast programme broadcast on ITV, presented by father and son duo Martin and Roman Kemp
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
*Rome, the ...
''.
ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited is a subsidiary of ITV Broadcasting Limited. The shows broadcast are produced by ITV Studios Daytime, a subsidiary of
ITV Studios
ITV Studios is a British multinational television production and distribution company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadca ...
.
Programmes
Weekdays
GMTV (1993–2010)
''GMTV'' (1993 – 2000, 2009 – 2010)
* Monday to Thursday 06:00 – 08:30 (Friday 09:25)
''GMTV Newshour'' (1997–2009)
* Monday to Friday 06:00 – 07:00
''GMTV Today'' (2000–2009)
* Monday to Friday 07:00 – 08:30 (Friday 09:25)
''GMTV with Lorraine'' (2009–2010)
* Monday to Thursday 08:30 – 09:25
ITV Breakfast (2010–present)
''Daybreak'' (2010–2014)
* 06:00 – 08:30 (2010–2012)
* 07:00 – 08:30 (2012–2014)
''Good Morning Britain'' (2014–present)
*06:00 – 08:30 (2014–2020)
*06:00 – 09:00 (2020–present)
''GMB Today'' (August 2017)
* 08:30 – 09:25
''Good Morning Britain with Lorraine'' (March–July 2020, December 2021)
* 09:00 – 10:00
''Loraine'' (2010–present)
* 08:30 – 09:25 (2010–2020)
* 09:00 – 10:00 (2020–present)
Weekends
Presenters
* A dark grey cell indicates the host did not appear that year.
Daybreak
Good Morning Britain
Current on-air team
Former on-air team
Others
Formerly,
Victoria Derbyshire,
Mark Durden-Smith,
Julia Hartley-Brewer,
Kevin Maguire,
Aasmah Mir,
Andrew Pierce,
Adil Ray,
Celia Walden
Celia Pughe-Morgan (née Walden; born 8 December 1975) is a French-born British journalist, novelist, and critic.
Career
Walden is a feature writer and former gossip columnist. She was the last editor of ''The Daily Telegraph's'' now defunct dia ...
,
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,
Oona King,
Olly Mann,
Michael Portillo
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (; born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as '' Great British Railway Journeys'' and ''Great Continental Railway Journ ...
and Natasha Courtenay-Smith appeared on a regular basis as newspaper reviewers on ''
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of G ...
''.
See also
*
List of ITV Breakfast programmes
The following details are for the programmes that ITV Breakfast currently broadcasts.
ITV Breakfast is the breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on 6 September 2010 as the replacement for GMTV Limited.
...
*
Timeline of breakfast television in the United Kingdom
*
TV-am
References
External links
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ITV plc
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ITV (TV network)
ITV franchisees
Television channels and stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in the United Kingdom