News & Sport

1 9 7 8 - Current (USA) This hour-long current affairs show from ABC has always featured award-winning journalists covering social issues and current events. The show set out to emulate the success of CBS' 60 Minutes but...

1 9 6 8 - Current (USA) 1 9 7 9 - Current (Australia) In 1967 Don Hewitt conceived of his new programme, 60 Minutes, as a strategy for addressing issues given insufficient time for analysis in two minutes of...

1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 1 9 8 8 - current (Australia) An Australian magazine programme that started life as a bona fide current affairs news show (hence the name) but degenerated...

1 9 7 0 - Current (UK) Fresh from the studio soccer game Quiz Ball, David Vine first introduced A Question Of Sport at 6:20 pm on Monday 5 January 1970 with captains Henry Cooper (the boxer) and Cliff Morgan (from...

1 9 5 8 - 1 9 6 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This weekly television panel discussion show from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had a four-person panel chaired in Melbourne by Frank Eyre (manager of Oxford...

1 9 9 2 - 2 0 0 2 (UK) Departing from the established news and magazine-based format of other breakfast TV shows, The Big Breakfast placed the emphasis on fun from the start, every weekday between 7.00 and...

1 9 6 8 - 1 9 7 2 (UK) The clear ancestor of That's Life, Braden's Week - which aired on Saturday evenings on BBC1 - not only humorously reviewed the week's events but was also an early consumers'...

1 9 8 3 - 1 9 8 9 (UK) Selina Scott joined nice "uncle" Frank Bough on BBC1's Breakfast Time at 6.30 am on 17 January 1983. Along with ITV's Good Morning Britain, it was one of the first...

1 9 8 9 - Current (USA) Cops features cameras following real-life police officers around their headquarters, on street patrols and raids, at stakeouts, and sometimes even in their homes. The show's formula follows the cinéma vérité convention, with no narration...

1 9 9 4 - 1 9 9 6 (UK) The idea for the Fantasy Football League TV show came from hosts Frank Skinner and David Baddiel who, having been part of the original Fantasy League line-up on Radio...

1 9 6 1 - Current (Australia) Four Corners debuted on the Australian ABC network on 19 August 1961 and went on to become that country's longest-running and most acclaimed weekly current affairs programme. The show was originally conceived...

1 9 5 5 (UK) ITV introduced Free Speech, political cross-talk between Robert Boothby, W J Brown, Michael Foot and historian and writer A J P Taylor, with Chairman Kenneth Adam. The programme was similar to the BBC's In The...

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1 9 8 3 - 1 9 9 2 (UK) Produced by the newly formed TV-am,  ITV debuted its first breakfast show on 1 February 1983 with the Famous Five - Angela Rippon, Michael Parkinson, David Frost,...

1 9 5 8 - 2 0 0 7 (UK) Wives everywhere threw up their hands in horror on Saturday 11 October 1958 as Saturday afternoons began to be dominated by sport . . . and...

1 9 8 3 (UK) A series of programmes from ITV featuring a Boy's Club Boxing tournament, with former British, Commonwealth and European champion Henry Cooper (who famously knocked down the unstoppable Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius...

1 9 7 3 - 1 9 7 8 (UK) 72 x 30 minute episodes The Indoor League was broadcast on ITV at lunchtime in the mid-1970s. It was hosted by former England fast bowler Fred Trueman, who -...

1 9 5 5 - 1 9 5 6 (UK) Boxing promoter Jack Solomons introduced action from big fights in Jack Solomons' Scrapbook. Solomons showed film of famous bouts, and in 1956 - the year when Rocky Marciano retired...

1 9 7 9 - 1 9 8 8 (UK) 35 x 30 minute episodes Originally hosted by the hairy cornflake himself, radio DJ Dave Lee Travis, Kick Start presented motorcycle Moto-X where 18 top international riders had...

1 9 8 5 - 2 0 1 0 (USA) For 15 years, Larry King Live was the most-watched programme on CNN, regularly reaching over one million viewers nightly and making King one of the most recognisable celebrities in...