Channel M Breakfast

{{Short description|2007 British TV programme}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = | genre = Features, news, sport, entertainment | runtime = 180 minutes | creator = | presenter = | channel = Channel M | country = United Kingdom | first_aired = {{start date|2007|4|16|df=y}} | last_aired = {{end date|2009|5|15|df=y}} | producer = Channel M | related = ''Channel M News'' }}

'''''Channel M Breakfast''''' is a regional breakfast television programme, produced by the Greater Manchester local television station, Channel M. Launched on Monday, 16 April 2007, and broadcast from the headquarters of Channel M at Urbis in Manchester city centre, the programme covered news, sport, features and entertainment from Greater Manchester and was the only regional television programme of its kind in the United Kingdom.

It was broadcast on weekdays between 6{{nbsp}}am and 9{{nbsp}}am and was presented by Byron Evans and Nikki Dean. The editor was Vanessa Williams.

The programme was axed on Friday 15 May 2009 as part of severe cutbacks to programming output and staffing levels at the station.<ref>[http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/channel-m-axes-breakfast-show-200905155399/ Channel M axes Breakfast show] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090518091557/http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/channel-m-axes-breakfast-show-200905155399/ |date=May 18, 2009 }}, How Do, 15 May 2009</ref>

After the programme ended, for a short while, the first two hours (6{{nbsp}}am to 8{{nbsp}}am) was used to broadcast live footage of the area's traffic cameras accompanied by a simulcast of Real Radio North West, and when the live footage from the traffic cameras ceased a holding slide was shown during the Real Radio simulcasts.

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081121032203/http://www.channelm.co.uk/programmes/index/0/95/breakfast_show.html ''Channel M Breakfast'' official site]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Channel M Breakfast}} Category:Mass media in Manchester Category:2007 British television series debuts Category:2009 British television series endings Category:Breakfast television in the United Kingdom