Breakfast Wars UK: BBC Breakfast Time vs TV-am

February 1983: the BBC launches Breakfast Time and ITV's TV-am goes live with David Frost — breakfast television's British year zero. Launch-day tapes, the making-of, Roland Rat, Anna Ford, and the 40-year retrospect.

Playlist by @morning_show_birth

13 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. ★ BBC-1 first Breakfast Time | Monday 17 January 1983 — Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
2. 1983: Making BREAKFAST TIME | Pebble Mill at One | Making of... | BBC Archive — BBC Archive
3. 1984: The Pub that Time Forgot | Breakfast Time | BBC Archive — BBC Archive
4. 40 YEARS OF BREAKFAST TV | BBC VS. ITV | Breakfast Time & TV-am — Adam Martyn
5. BBC Breakfast News #1 — David Baldwin
6. BBC Breakfast News - First Ever Edition - Monday 2nd October 1989 — All Star Archive Videos
7. BBC Breakfast Time - Last Ever Edition - Friday 29th September 1989 — All Star Archive Videos
8. TV-am day one | Tuesday 1 February 1983 — Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
9. 1983 TV-am First Broadcast - Good Morning Britain — Things off Tape
10. ☆ TV-am broadcast to advertisers | 14 January 1983 — Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
11. The Most Problematic TV Station: TV-am — ALTV
12. GOOD MORNING BRITAIN - TV-am - 25.10.83 — Simon Andrews
13. TV-AM Opener 1984 — radprog