# Kfm Breakfast

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{{Infobox Radio Show
| show_name          = Kfm Breakfast
| image              =<!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|200px -->
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| caption            = The ''Kfm Breakfast'' Team
| format             = Morning Zoo, music (Hot AC), comedy, talk
| runtime            = 3 hours: 06h00 – 09h00<br>Monday through Friday
| language           = English<br>Afrikaans
| creator            = 
| writer             = 
| presenter          = Darren "Whackhead" Simpson
| starring           = Deon Bing<br>Jeremy Harris<br>Liezel van der Westhuizen<br>Stephen Werner
| executive_producer = Stephen Werner
| opentheme          = 
| endtheme           = 
| country            = {{flagicon|South Africa}} [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
| first_aired        = 28 January 2002
| last_aired         = present
| num_episodes       = 
| website            = http://www.kfm.co.za/
| home_station       = 94.5 Kfm
| audio_format       = FM, online and digital satellite (DStv audio channel: 180)
| podcast	     = [https://web.archive.org/web/20080205104424/http://www.kfm.co.za/podcast/listenondemand.asp]
}}
'''''Kfm Breakfast''''' is the morning drive show on radio station 94.5 Kfm. It is the biggest breakfast show in the [Western Cape](/source/Western_Cape), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa). 94.5 Kfm broadcasts to over 1.1 million listeners<ref>[http://www.saarf.co.za/RAMS/rams-commercial-n.htm Latest RAMS figures]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}. South African Advertising Research Foundation. February 2008</ref> across a large section of south western South Africa.<ref>[http://www.kfm.co.za/coveragemap.asp Broadcast Reach Map]. ''www.kfm.co.za''. Retrieved 2007-10-21.</ref>

==Show format==
''Kfm Breakfast'' runs for three hours, with news read half-hourly in both English and Afrikaans between 06h00 and 09h00. Sports is read on the half-hour between 07h00 and 09h00.

The show relies on a number of on-air contributors, and often includes members of the production team, news and sport readers and other studio guests.

== Team members ==
*[Darren "Whackhead" Simpson](/source/Darren_%22Whackhead%22_Simpson) – Host
*[Ryan O'Connor](/source/Ryan_O'Connor) – host since June 2008<ref>[http://www.kfm.co.za/kcrew/djprofiles.asp?action=djlink&djid=33 Presenter profile]. ''www.kfm.co.za''. Retrieved 2007-12-04.</ref>
*Jeremy Harris – [sports anchor](/source/sports_anchor)
*Liezel van der Westhuizen – traffic reporter
*Deon Bing – ''Kfm Surf Report''
*Stephen Werner – producer, since 2007–2008; previously produced ''Breakfast with Aden Thomas'' on 94.5 Kfm's sister station, 567 CapeTalk

===Notable former team members===
*Ian Bredenkamp – Executive Producer from 2002 to September 2007; moved into a management position at 94.5 Kfm in September 2007
*Lizma van Zyl – original Afrikaans newsreader on ''Kfm Breakfast''; left in July 2008 to continue her studies and complete her doctorate
*Lance Witten – one of the show's producers in 2007 and early 2008; left to join [E.tv](/source/E.tv)'s 24-hour news channel
*Wesley Petersen – [sports anchor](/source/sports_anchor) 2003–2009; now the national sports editor for EyeWitness News

== Daily features ==
The show is known for its daily features:
*''GK Teens'', where learners throughout the Western Cape call in and two contestants go head-to-head. They are given 60 seconds each to answer as many general knowledge questions as possible. A monthly leader board charts the daily contestants' success, and the months' winners face each other in a showdown at the end of the season. Each winner receives a cash prize.
* ''O'Connic 80's'' is a daily selection of O'Connor's favourite music hits from the eighties.

==External links==
* [http://www.kfm.co.za 94.5 Kfm homepage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071222164204/http://www.kfm.co.za/Breakfast/breakfast_pg.asp ''Kfm Breakfast'']

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