The Channel Four Daily


The Channel Four Daily is a breakfast television news magazine, which was produced by Independent Television News, in collaboration with other independent production companies for Channel 4. The programme was the first breakfast programme for Channel 4, broadcasting between 6am and 9.25am each weekday morning. The first edition of the programme was broadcast on 3 April 1989, with the last edition being broadcast on 25 September 1992.
The Channel Four Daily failed to gain enough viewers and was replaced with the relatively more popular programme, The Big Breakfast from Monday, 28 September 1992.

Format

Conceived as a television newspaper, output was based heavily on news and current affairs with the flagship bulletin World News co-presented from three continents. Also, a number of bite-sized feature segments lasting between 5 and 10 minutes were slotted around the news output and were shown several times each day. These included a business programme, sporting discussion, consumer reports, arts and entertainment, Countdown Masters – an abbreviated version of Countdown – and a cartoon slot called Comic Book.
Changes were made in April 1990. These included the cancellation of Streetwise and an International Sports Report replaced Kickback. The programme's length was reduced with the start time being 6.30am rather than 6am – The Art of Landscape and an edition of Business Daily filled the vacated 30 minute slot.

Presenters

London presenters
Washington presenter
Tokyo presenters
Other presenters