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This is a timeline of the history of the broadcasting of breakfast radio programmes on national stations in the United Kingdom.

1950s

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  • 1957
    • 28 October – The Today programme launches on the BBC Home Service as a programme of "topical talks" to give listeners an alternative to listening to light music which the Home Service had previously broadcast at breakfast.[1]
  • 1958
    • No events.
  • 1959
    • No events.

1960s

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  • 1960 to 1964
    • No events.
  • 1965
    • 25 October – Breakfast Special is broadcast for the first time on the BBC Light Programme. The programme replaces Morning Music.
  • 1966
    • No events.
  • 1969
    • No events.

1970s

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  • 1971
    • No events.
  • 1972
    • 3 April – Terry Wogan joins BBC Radio 2 to present The Radio 2 Breakfast Show. He replaces John Dunn who moves to afternoons. Breakfast Special disappears from the airwaves after seven years and a new early morning show is introduced, resulting in BBC Radio 2 starting the day on weekdays and Saturdays 30 minutes earlier at 5am. Sunday broadcasting still commenced at just before 7am.
  • 1974
    • No events.
  • 1975
    • No events.
  • 1976
    • No events.
  • 1978
  • 1979
    • No events.

1980s

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  • 1980
    • No events.
  • 1983
    • No events.
  • 1987
    • 3 January – The Today programme is extended to six days a week when it launches a Saturday edition and John Humphrys joins the programme's presenting team as John Timpson's replacement.

1990s

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  • 1990
    • 28 August – The first edition of BBC Radio 5's weekday breakfast programme Morning Edition is broadcast. It is presented by Sarah Ward and Jon Briggs.
  • 1992
    • 6 January – Brian Hayes takes over as host of The Radio 2 Breakfast Show. He presents the show for the rest of the year, ending his run on 23 December.
    • 9 February – The final edition of the Bruno and Liz Breakfast show is broadcast on BBC Radio 1.
    • 17 February – Danny Baker replaces Sarah Ward and Jon Briggs as presenter of the BBC Radio 5 weekday breakfast programme Morning Edition.[10]
    • 9 March – Gary Davies takes over as host of Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show.
    • 13 July – In a bid to counteract the forthcoming launch of Classic FM, Radio 3 makes major changes to its programmes, including the launch of new weekday breakfast programme[11] called On Air, which replaces Morning Concert on weekdays.
    • 7 September – Classic FM launches with breakfast show presenter Nick Bailey opening the action at 6am.
  • 1995
    • 24 April – Chris Evans takes over Radio 1 Breakfast from Steve Wright, following differences with the station's new management.
    • Radio 3 begins broadcasting an hour earlier on weekdays at 6am, when breakfast show On Air is extended from two to three hours.[13]
    • 21 October – Ahead of a schedule revamp, Johnnie Walker leaves BBC Radio 1. The changes include Clive Warren moving from the weekend breakfast show to the weekday early show, replacing Dave Pearce who launches a new weekend mid-morning show, replacing Kevin Greening who takes over weekend breakfast show which includes a new weekend breakfast series Newsbeat presented by Peter Bowes.[14]
  • 1998
    • 29 March – BBC Radio 3’s Sunday breakfast programme Sacred and Profane is broadcast for the final time.[16]
    • 4 April – Breakfast programme On Air extends to weekends.[17]
    • 6 April – As part of an earlier start to BBC Radio 4’s day, the weekday editions of The Today programme are extended by 30 minutes to three hours.[18]
    • 7 September – Peter Allen and Jane Garvey take over as presenters of 5 Live Drive which replaces Nationwide as the station's teatime programme. They swap with Julian Worricker who takes over the breakfast programme.
    • 25 September – Kevin Greening leaves Radio 1 Breakfast leaving Zoe Ball as the sole presenter as he moves back to weekends to replace Clive Warren as host of the Sunday weekend breakfast show.
    • 5 October – Virgin Radio starts simulcasts of the breakfast show on Sky One each morning for an hour between 7:30am and 8:30am. When a track was played on the radio, viewers see the track's video at the same time.[19][20]

2000s

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  • 2001
    • 28 June – Chris Evans is dismissed from Virgin Radio for repeatedly failing to arrive at work. He is replaced by the older Steve Penk whom Evans criticised for his age, 39 versus Evans's then 35.[25]
  • 2005
    • 16 December – Pete and Geoff present Virgin Radio’s breakfast show for the final time.

2010s

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  • 2011
    • No events.
  • 2015
    • 21 September – Chris Moyles relaunches The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X, itself a relaunch of the former Xfm broadcast nationally on DAB for the first time
    • 16 December – After 21 years, James Naughtie presents the Today programme for the final time.
  • 2016
    • No events.
  • 2017
    • No events.
  • 2019
    • 14 January – Zoe Ball takes over as presenter of The Radio 2 Breakfast Show as Richie Anderson, the new travel news reporter for weekday mornings and Tina Daheley both join the station.[48]
    • 6 September – The new early weekend breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 is running from Friday to Sunday and is presented by Arielle Free. Mollie King gained a new slot, namely Best New Pop.[49]
    • 19 September – John Humphrys presents his final edition of Radio 4's Today programme after 32 years.[50]

2020s

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  • 2020
    • No events.
  • 2022
    • No events.

References

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