A decade of unembarrassedly folksy breakfast telly
It’s easy to take the mickey out of breakfast TV, which is by its very nature, lowest common denominator television.
But that doesn’t mean that making it is easy.
Sunrise is hitting its tenth anniverary, and they’ve just uploaded a reel of the show’s greatest moments, which is worth a watch.
I was more impressed than I expected to be.
Yet I’m sure that Nine’s Today would have the material to put together just as good a reel too.
It’s not a bad reminder that at it’s best, Australian telly can be pretty good, and that the breakfast battle has tended to bring the best out of the networks.
(Declaration of interest – I’ve pundited on Sunrise a few times.)
Tim Burrowes
- From out sister title Encore: The Big Business of Breakfast
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I don’t want smiley faces, caked in makeup (blokes included) talking drivel in the am.
I want short news summaries, weather, breaking news, thank you very much.
On the radio I want music, not waffle from wannabe’s and biased opinions from megalomaniacs, I want decent music.
Australia does not have a quality breakfast news broadcast on tv, nor FM radio.
That tells me it is there for the taking.
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So Breakfast Shenanigans you are obviously in the minority which is why they do what they do
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ABC24 breakfast has been the only thing on my tv in the morning’s for years now. I don’t want two overly happy presenters vomitting rainbows and feigning concern over celebrity beatups, I want news, and thanks to the ABC, I can get it.
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What is most infuriating with the bfast TV “stars” is how they morph from reading News to giving their opinion. As the networks have reigned in expenses and they have become lazy we have seen a change of approach. Rather than perhaps get a leading economist to talk about the state of the economy or get a climate scientist to talk about climate change we have Karl,Lisa,Mel and Kochie giving their uninformed 2c worth.
We even have ridiculous situations where the “girls on the couch” are one minute talking about the latest diet and then in the next breath giving their opinions on how to cure global poverty….. Sure if the issue is who had the best dress at the Oscars go with the stars but when the issues are a) ones of substace and b) it is easy to get an expert then we shouldn’t be subjected to the uniformed pontification of wallpaper TV hosts.
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You’d probably love the articcle in the DT then… http://www.dailytelegraph.com......6285412274
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The Today Show was very watchable untill the 2GB brigade started bringing their Liberal bias on the show. Just watch how cleverly Ross Greenwood turns every finance story into a reason to get rid of Labor. “Today employment figures are up which appears to be good news, until you factor in the point that without Tony Abbott as Prime Minister none of this can last – here’s a graph I cooked up to prove it”. And didn’t Karl nearly wet himself interviewing Abbot last week during Rudd’s challenge. Or was that just Ben Fordham, another one of Singo’s Gillard bashers, just pissing in Karl’s pocket as usual.
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I guess the whole idea of unbiased, informed reporting is no longer appropriate for the morning TV shows of 9 and 7..Much easier to rip the editorial from the Daily Telegraph run with this until Ray Hadley comes on and gives his version of a rant based on the same editorial and then back to Karl Abbott for an informed summary…And Ben has just enough time to leave the studios of ch9 to get to 2GB to starting ranting again.
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Yeh I like Karl and love Lisa, but at times it seems to be a bit Fox Newsy when it comes to the Libs
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These programmes debase journalism and lower the general conversation. I think Lisa W stands a lot taller than the clown around her.Sad what is happening to commercial tv in the race to the bottom.
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“It’s not a bad reminder that at it’s best…”
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Morning TV, the only thing that comes close to plumbing the depths of…. URRGmorning radioGGHHH.
Still at least its not an evening “current affairs show” that actually pretends it is of some value.
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Whilst Triple J is one of the favorable radio channels in Oz; they talk too much for the breakfast show, which is why I do not listen to it.
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