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ABC News Breakfast making the switch to ABC1

ABC News Breakast switches to ABC1 in early May and adds a new segment.

As has been previously reported ABC News Breakfast is moving from ABC2 to ABC1 on Monday May 2nd.

It will continue to be simulcast live on ABC News 24, and broadcast on ABC1 each weekday morning from 6am-9am AEST (which means viewers in WA for example can see it much earlier on ABC News 24).

As part of the move it will have new segments, including a regular political discussion, ‘The Party Line’ interviewing political leaders and news makers. There will also be more focus on local and regional issues, with the presenters getting out on the road more.

News Director Kate Torney said, “ABC News Breakfast’s move to ABC1 strengthens the network’s live news coverage on the main channel, and offers more quality news from the start of the day, and right throughout, with the Midday News, regular news updates during the afternoon, the 7pm News bulletins, and completing the day with 7.30, Lateline and Lateline Business.

Hosted by Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland the show inclues sports news and interviews with Paul Kennedy, weather updates with Vanessa O’Hanlon, and political news with correspondent Melissa Clarke in Canberra.

Regular guests include Waleed Aly, Bruce Guthrie, Barrie Cassidy and Sally Warhaft.

Executive Producer, Tim Ayliffe added, “ABC News Breakfast offers a distinctly different approach to breakfast TV, providing comprehensive coverage of the major stories of the day. The program harnesses the ABC’s unrivalled domestic and international resources to offer a credible, and fast-paced national breakfast program that reacts instantly to events as they happen.”

Children’s programs that are currently on ABC1 from 6am to 9am will move across to digital channel ABC2 on May 2nd.

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  1. Sorry Virginia you did try, you didnt mention Ziggy’s a board member for Areva, and has a vested interest in it. I laugh at his comment of, saturation coverage of fukashima and the aftermath. He has to be kidding, Doesnt even get a mention most days. Where are our experts in the industry , giving us daily reads and forcasts. Its an insult to our intelligence. Im sorry but I cant watch this brainless crap any more, when the biggest story of our time goes unreported and covered up by Govts and media. It will soon be 100 days since the disaster. Good luck, we are going to need it

  2. Dumb and dumber, With Ziggy Switkowski and the lies continue, you guys need a holiday. Maybe tokyo would be a good place take Ziggy with you.

  3. I am grateful. Living in the bush with only two commercial channels and the ABC to pick from, (and a very grainy and unwatchable SBS) it was simply preferable to turn the telly off rather than watch the pathetic musings of the morning shows, and unbearable kids stuff didn’t even warrant consideration. Now I can have the good company of calm television while I get on with other things.

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