''Saturday Breakfast'' was a

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morning news and talkshow based on ''

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'', that aired on Saturday mornings from 7-9am from 3 September 2011 until 15 December 2012 on TV One.

Presenters

Anchors

Tāmati Coffey Tamati Gerald Coffey (born 19 September 1979) is a list Member of the New Zealand Parliament for the New Zealand Labour Party. Prior to entering Parliament, he was most notably an award-winning broadcaster fronting many shows over a decade, for ...

and Nadine Chalmers-Ross (2012) *

and

Toni Street Toni Street (born 8 September 1983) is a New Zealand television presenter and sports commentator. She is best known for co-hosting the New Zealand current affairs programme '' Seven Sharp'' alongside Mike Hosking, as well as presenting morning ...

(2012) *

Rawdon Christie Rawdon Christie is a former English-New Zealand journalist turned media relations expert and real-estate sales person. Life Christie was born in London. He attended Marlborough College, and then the University of Edinburgh, where he received a ...

and

(2011-2012)

Show format

10 minutes of news, sport and weather is presented every half hour between 7:00 and 8:30. News is presented by Brooke Dobson. Weather, presented by Sam Wallace is presented from a location around the country, usually where an event is happening. The show has interviews with newsmakers and/or

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reporters. The rest of the show has entertainment/light-hearted/special interest segments presented by

and

. The show was cancelled by TVNZ due to its lack of commercial sustainability, caused by the withdrawal of key sponsor Lotteries New Zealand. The last show was broadcast on 15 December 2012. This coincided with host Tāmati leaving TVNZ to go overseas, and Weather reporter Sam Wallace being elevated to the Weekday Breakfast weather reporter upon Tāmati's departure. Nadine will remain as Business host on the weekday show as will newsreader, Brooke Dobson, in her primary role as Auckland reporter.

References

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