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Thursday, January 17, 2013

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As BBC Breakfast celebrates 30 years of early morning tv at the Corporation, the problems at ITV Daybreak seem intractable.

This week's figures so far to hand suggest little or no upward  movement for Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones, launched as a pairing to turn things round in September 2012. In November, editor David Kermode was replaced by Karl Newton - but the stats now are essentially unmoved from four months ago..

Monday Breakfast 1.56m 35.9%
Daybreak 695,357 17.3%
Tuesday Breakfast 1.55m 36.2%
Daybreak 654,510 16.6%

Maybe ITV should look for more drama in its changes. TV-AM launched on February 1 1983, and, by April, Jonathan Aitken had sacked Angela Rippon and Anna Ford, and Greg Dyke had moved to nick Anne Diamond from BBC Nationwide, in time for a June re-launch. The TV-AM of Roland Rat was on the way...and in just 12 weeks, Greg built TV-AM's peak audience from 200,000 to 1.7 million. At the top, it hit 3 million...

  • Please try this excellent blog post by Martin Wainwright of The Guardian on his part in TV-AM's success...

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