Breakfast Television, also known as BT, is a Canadian morning news and entertainment program produced by CITY-DT. The program airs from 5:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. ET each weekday, except holidays. Since October 3, 2011, it is also simulcast on cable-exclusive CityNews Channel, with a half-hour extension aired exclusively on the channel that runs from 9-9:30 a.m.
Four other Citytv owned-and-operated stations use the name and the format, creating content relevant to their own local audiences. A stations produced their own similar morning shows under the name A Morning, although due to budget cuts, many of them have been canceled as of 2009.
BT tends to be more relaxed and spontaneous than American morning shows. Unlike American morning shows, it does not have pre-taped segments that are focused on current events or socio-political issues. The guests tend to be more human interest, informational, and promotional in nature and there is less of a focus on celebrities.
"Crime of the Week" - is a crime show featuring criminal expert Leif G.W. Persson. The show discusses and tells stories about both cold cases and current crimes.
The Grid, hosted by podcasting and public radio host, Jesse Thorn, is an American fifteen-minute weekly rundown of what's trending in Indie Culture. Each week on IFC, The Grid recommends movies, music, games, and gadgets of interest. Joining Jesse are an array of up-and-coming comedians, offering their own opinions on what’s trending now. The Grid airs every Thursday at 7:45pm EST, 4:45 PST on IFC. Various segments from the weeks episode can be viewed online at IFC.com and on social networking websites.
Daybreak is a national British breakfast programme, broadcast weekdays on ITV. It is presented live from The London Studios and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, and entertainment items. The programme was originally presented by Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles until their departure on 5 December 2011. They were replaced by Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, who presented the show on an interim basis, however since 2012, Daybreak has been presented by Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones, with Ranvir Singh and Matt Barbet hosting the first hour of the programme. Laura Tobin acts as the weather presenter with Richard Arnold presenting the showbiz slot on the show. Helen Fospero, Louisa James and John Stapleton act as stand-in presenters of the main show.
PowNews is a Dutch television news show which is broadcast on Nederland 3 from Studio Plantage in Amsterdam on Monday to Friday evenings by the public broadcaster PowNed. The first broadcast was on 6 September 2010.
PowNews is presented by Dominique Weesie. Reports are contributed by Rutger Castricum and Jan Roos with ITC commentary by Brenno de Winter.
The show is a mixture of news and entertainment, with an often provocative character.
William Shatner re-examines some of the biggest national news stories of the past two decades to find out how the lives of the people directly affected by these events have changed forever. Shatner gains exclusive access to the newsmakers -- heroes, villains, victims, family members and law enforcement -- at the heart of the stories, including those of Jessica Lynch, Bernard Goetz, Mary Kay Letourneau and the DC snipers, to separate the fact from the fiction, with archival footage and re-enactments helping to round out the storytelling.
Paul Murray Live is an Australian nightly television current affairs and commentary program, shown on Sky News Australia and hosted by broadcaster Paul Murray.
The show revolves around public Twitter discussions and the slogan "this is a show where we tell you what happened today and hopefully by the end of it you'll know what really happened today".
News updates are presented by Sharon McKenzie.
Need to Know is an American public television news program produced by WNET, and broadcast weekly on all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate-stations in the United States. It aired from May 2010 until June 2013.
PBS stated that the show was intended to fill the public-affairs and "hard"/investigative news void left by both the one-hour Bill Moyers Journal, and the cancelled, half-hour NOW on PBS. Both departing shows had been long-running, highly rated, and critically acclaimed for their journalistic quality, and focus on issues that deeply impacted regular Americans' lives, yet went largely ignored by commercial TV news outlets. "NTK" branded itself the "TV and Web newsmagazine [that] gives you what you need to know." PBS had described the show as “a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to news-gathering and reporting."
Sky Midnight News is a live news show that airs every day at 12:00am–12:30am on Sky News and on Sky News HD in the UK.
It features a round-up of the news stories & a look ahead to the morning news. It is the only programme of its type in its time slot in the UK. It is regularly presented by a number of presenters with no set pattern.