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Breakfast television news programme, broadcast on Sky News From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sky News Breakfast is a British breakfast television programme that airs Monday- Saturday and Bank Holidays from 6–10am and Sunday from 6–8.30am on Sky News. The show launched on Friday, 18 October 2019 as the replacement for long-running breakfast show Sunrise.
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As of June 2024, Wilfred Frost, Leah Boleto and Anna Jones are the programmes regular main presenters, with Mhari Aurora the programme's regular political correspondent. Sports presenter Jacqui Beltrao co-presents from Friday to Sunday. Most programmes are broadcast from Westminster rather than Osterley.
The show was previously presented by Kay Burley, until her exit from Sky News in early 2025.
The show was one of Sky's final double headed formats - the other being Sky News Today - and was presented by Stephen Dixon and Gillian Joseph from Sky Centre in Osterley until January 2021.
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Sky News announced on 23 September 2019 that they were introducing two new breakfast shows to replace Sunrise. Alongside the announcement of Kay Burley, Sky News also announced "a slightly more relaxed style to kick off the weekend" in the form of Sky News Breakfast with Stephen Dixon and Gillian Joseph.[1][2]
It aired for the first time on Friday, 18 October 2019. The show has a hard-news focus however is slightly more relaxed, containing human-interest stories, in comparison to the weekday format.[3]
The show initially ran from Friday-Sunday however in September 2020, it became weekends only when a relaunched Kay Burley began broadcasting five days a week. At the same time, Sky News @ Breakfast was renamed Sky News Breakfast, with Sky dropping the @ from both breakfast shows.
By November 2021, there was no regular presenter for the programme, as Dixon left Sky News[4] and Joseph moved to present Sky News at Ten at weekends.[5] Jacquie Beltrao presents sport on the programme.[6] In December 2021, the then-presenter of Early Rundown Niall Paterson was announced as the show's permanent host, starting in early 2022. However this changed once again later that same year with Anna Jones becoming the shows main presenter from Fridays to Sundays.
After Burley's departure in 2025, a number of presenters have anchored the programme, including Wilfred Frost, Leah Boleto, Matt Barbet, and Kamali Melbourne.
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Broadcast
The show currently airs from 6-10am Monday to Saturdays, and from 6–8.30am on Sundays, live from Sky News' studios in Westminster.
In January 2021, following Kay Burley’s breach of coronavirus regulations, the Sky News Breakfast name was used on programming guides for the weekday slot. However, both shows continued to broadcast differing formats. As a result of Burley’s absence, Gillian Joseph hosted the programme solo with Stephen Dixon covering Monday-Thursday editions of The Early Rundown whilst Niall Paterson was covering for Burley. From March 2021, Dixon and Paterson swapped roles, with Dixon hosting the Kay Burley slot until her return in June 2021.
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On-Air Team
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Other relief sport and weather presenters appear during holiday and absences.
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