Breakfast with Brisbane

Breakfast with Brisbane was a television programme which provided live and recorded coverage of the 1982 Commonwealth Games. The programme was named after the location where the Games were being held.

Breakfast with Brisbane
Created byBBC Sport
Presented byDesmond Lynam
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time100-120 minutes
Release
Original networkBBC1
Original release3 October (1982-10-03) –
9 October 1982 (1982-10-09)

The programme was broadcast from around 7 am until around 9 am and was presented by Desmond Lynam with studio analysis of the athletics events from Steve Ovett. David Icke presented round-ups of the latest Games news at 7.30 am and at 8.30 am. The programme also provided regular summaries of national and international news from the BBC Newsroom. These bulletins were read by David Cass.[1]

The main focus of the programme was to provide live coverage of the athletics and the first edition of the programme was on the opening day of the track and field programme.[2]

Breakfast with Brisbane was broadcast just over three months prior to the start of the BBC's breakfast television programme Breakfast Time.[3]

References
  1. The first few minutes of the first edition of Breakfast with Brisbane
  2. "BBC One London – 3 October 1982 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  3. Midgley, Neil (16 January 2013). "Breakfast television: the revolution embraced by the nation". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
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