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ABC News Breakfast is an Australian news breakfast television program which broadcasts on ABC1 and ABC News 24 from 6am to 9.30am on weekdays. The program airs live in all Australian timezones on the high-definition digital free-to-air channel ABC News 24. It is also streamed live on the ABC's website and broadcast live on Foxtel and Austar pay television services. It is also broadcasted on the Australia Network throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
History The program commenced broadcasting on 3 November 2008 on ABC2, with hosts Virginia Trioli, Barrie Cassidy and Joe O'Brien (who replaced Cassidy on Fridays and during Cassidy's holidays). They are joined by sport presenter Paul Kennedy and weather presenter Vanessa O'Hanlon. Tim Ayliffe is the program's executive producer. ABC News Breakfast covers the latest news, analysis, debate, finance, sport and weather. It draws upon the resources of ABC newsrooms and radio programs across Australia and the world. During winter, the program is broadcast live on digital free-to-air channel ABC1 in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. It is broadcasted on a 30 minute delay in South Australia and the Northern Territory and on a two hour delay in Western Australia. During summer, when only some Australian states adopt daylight saving time, the program is broadcast live on free-to-air channel ABC1 only in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. It is broadcast on a 30 minuted delay in South Australia, a 60 minute delay in Queensland, a 90 minute delay in the Northern Territory and on a three hour delay in Western Australia. During this time, ABC News 24 broadcasts the program LIVE Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time across Australia. The program is becoming an ABC competitor to popular breakfast shows such as Sunrise which airs on the Seven Network, Today which airs on the Nine Network and Breakfast which airs on Network Ten. In May 2011, the program moved to ABC1, with children's programming moving to ABC2 and ABC3. In November 2011, it was announced that the ABC News Breakfast brand would spread to the weekend with Weekend Breakfast hosted by Andrew Geoghegan and Miriam Corowa. Weekend Breakfast Weekend Breakfast is a mix of live breaking news and discussion, interviews with newsmakers and the weekend sport and weather. The show began on 4 February 2012 and airs from 8am to 11:30am on weekend mornings on ABC News 24. Presenters | Presenter | Role | Tenure | | Virginia Trioli | co-host | 2008 present | | Michael Rowland | co-host | 2010 present | | Karina Carvalho | co-host | 2012 (replacement) | | Paul Kennedy | sport | 2008 present | | Vanessa O'Hanlon | weather | 2008 present | In January 2009, ABC announced that Joe O'Brien will remain as host on Monday through to Friday replacing Barrie Cassidy. In April 2010, ABC announced that O'Brien would leave ABC News Breakfast to be morning news presenter on ABC News 24. In May 2010, former ABC News North America correspondent Michael Rowland replaced O'Brien as co-host. The main fill-in presenters for Trioli are Tamara Oudyn, Beverley O'Connor, Melissa Clarke and Mary Gearin and the fill-in presenters for Rowland are Paul Kennedy, Neal Woolrich and Waleed Aly. Steve Pearce and Amy Bainbridge are the fill-in sport presenters if Kennedy is away and Paul Higgins is the fill-in weather presenter if O'Hanlon is away. Karina Carvalho is replacing Virginia Trioli, while she is on maternity leave, throughout 2012. Regulars The program features a number of regular segments and guests which appear each morning discussing the latest news and politics. - Melissa Clarke political correspondent
- Waleed Aly commentator
- Tom Tilley Triple J updates
- Barrie Cassidy federal politics
- Bruce Guthrie commentator
- Sally Warhaft commentator
Former presenters | Presenter | Role | Tenure | | Joe O'Brien | co-host | 2008 2010 | | Barrie Cassidy | co-host | 2008 | References External links
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