** ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively.

Abbott was a researcher and reporter at Thames Television from 1980 to 1983 and then a researcher and reporter at the breakfast television company TV-am from 1983 to 1985.

* GMTV ( changed to Good Morning Television as the bid name ' Sunrise Television ' was already used by Sky News ) outbid TV-am for the Breakfast television licence.

LWT even had a stake in Sunrise Television, who outbid TV-am.

Frost was instrumental in starting up two important ITV franchises: London Weekend Television in July 1968 and as one of the Famous Five who launched TV-am in February 1983.

Before 1984, Ragdoll's founder Anne Wood made children's programmes for Yorkshire Television ( which was the name before the rebrand to ITV Yorkshire ) and TV-am.

During her career, she initially worked as a researcher, news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television, the BBC, ITN, and helped launch the first British breakfast television programme TV-am.

* TV-am Breakfast Television Centre in Camden Town, London, designed by Terry Farrell, is completed.

TV-am bid £ 14. 3m, but were outbid by another consortium, Sunrise Television ( which changed its name to GMTV when it launched ), which had bid £ 36. 4m.

* TV-am. net-The TV-am Television Archives ( 1983 – 1992 )

Walker hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am for a short spell before joining Yorkshire Television.

Until recently the Chief Executive Officer of ITV Studios was David Gyngell, son of the late Bruce Gyngell, the former managing director of former ITV breakfast franchisee TV-am and Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television.

Although in-vision teletext was only ever occasionally used on the ITV network ( including an Oracle-provided service preceding TV-am broadcasts known as " Daybreak " during the 1980s ), certain regions, firstly Central Independent Television from April 1986 followed by Yorkshire Television from January 1987 started showing overnight teletext sequences containing details of local job vacancies under the title Jobfinder and these pages were broadcast for an hour after the end of regular programming ended.

In the United Kingdom, he was Managing Director at TV-am between 1984 and 1993, and Yorkshire Television ( which by then had become " Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television " after taking over Tyne Tees Television ).

The station TV-am ran several programmes ( 1983 – 1992 ) ( including Daybreak, Good Morning Britain, et al.

He also presented the Saturday TV-am show Wide Awake Club from 1986 – 1990, and its Sunday spin-off WAC Extra, throughout the 1980s.

TV-am was spearheaded by ' The Famous Five ' who were not only lined up as presenters on the station, but were also shareholders — Michael Parkinson, David Frost ( 1983 – 92 ), Angela Rippon ( 1983 ), Anna Ford ( 1983 ) and Robert Kee.

* www. tv-am. net-the official site of the TV-am Archive ( 1983 – 92 ) owned and managed by Moving Image Communications Ltd.

* United Kingdom: Galaxy ( 1990 ), TV-am ( 1992 ), Nickelodeon, Sky Channel as part of Fun Factory Saturday and Sunday morning programming ( 1990 – 1993 ) and Carlton Kids ( 1998-2000 ).

Although well known for her TV-am weather forecasts she is most proud of her work as a writer and as presenter of television programmes about animals, notably Animal Watch on TV-am and the Granada TV series Wincey ’ s Pets.

Lizzie Webb, often known as " Mad Lizzie ", presented daily exercise routines on British morning television channel TV-am.

She was well known in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s for her TV appearances, particularly on the TV-am show Good Morning Britain where she presented the daily aerobics spot on weekends ( Lizzie Webb presented it on weekdays ).

On her return to Britain, she worked as a presenter for LBC, BBC Radio 4, TV-am and wrote travel articles for The Daily Telegraph.

He stayed on the backbenches throughout Thatcher's premiership and engaged in a number of activities, including participation in the re-launch of TV-am ( where he was involved in an incident in which broadcaster Anna Ford threw her wine at him to express her outrage at both his behaviour and the unwelcome consequent transformation of the TV station ).

After working as a secretary, Jonsson began her TV career on TV-am in 1989 where she worked as a weather presenter.

When the franchise was announced in 1981 Angela Rippon's contract with the BBC was about to expire, and was not renewed as a result of her new employment, leaving her seeking freelance work before TV-am went on air.

* Maya Even 1989-1992-began her television career at TV-am in 1987, first as a researcher in the political unit and then as a producer and reporter from 1989, mainly from Westminster.

Armstrong continued to co-present with Eamonn Holmes until Easter 1993, when her departure coincided with a revamp of the main programme on 19 April, which included a new set that mimicked that of TV-am.

However she fell ill, and that promised more regular presenting role at TV-am never materialised because of her failing health.

She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning ... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter.

Rustie Lee is a television chef, actress and musician in the United Kingdom, most famous for her appearances in the 1980s on morning station, TV-am.

Following her successful stint as a chef on TV-am in 1983, Lee took over from Sarah Kennedy on the second, less successful, incarnation of ITV gameshow Game for a Laugh.

Following TV-am, Dyke became Director of Programmes for TVS, and later returned to LWT, making a fortune when Granada bought out the firm.

By February 1992 the first on-screen effects of the licence loss became obvious, with TV-am closing its in-house news service and contracting it out to Sky News for a one-off payment.

The news was provided in-house by TV-am but following its loss of the license the news provision was contracted out to Sky News from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992.

After this, he did a stint on the breakfast television station TV-am.

Challenged by Anne Diamond on TV-am, Healey became upset and ended the interview.

TV-am, with Daybreak and Good Morning Britain being its flagship programs, launched just two weeks later on 1 February 1983.

TV-am found it hard to survive at first because of a format that was starchy and formal compared to the BBC's more-relaxed magazine style and a reliance on advertising income from a timeslot where people were not accustomed to watching television.

Fanny appeared alone on Wogan, Parkinson and TV-am.

Greaves also worked frequently for TV-am as a TV critic and was a resident team captain on ITV sports quiz Sporting Triangles as well as co-hosting the Saturday morning children's television show, The Saturday Show.

Bruce Gyngell, the former chairman of breakfast station TV-am, became YTTV's managing director on 15 May 1995.

While in the UK, he briefly gained fame for the similarity of his name to that of TV puppet Roland Rat, with whom he appeared in an edition of TV-am and whose branding briefly appeared on his car.

That year, 1982, Parkinson left the BBC to be co-founder and presenter on the ITV breakfast television station TV-am, where after many schedule upheavals he ended up presenting the Sunday morning programme with his wife, Mary Parkinson.

The programme originally began in this format on TV-am in September 1983 as Frost on Sunday until the station lost its franchise at the end of 1992.

In 1986 he joined TV-am as resident astrologer appearing on Good Morning and After Nine until 1990.

Eva Ulrika Jonsson ( born 16 August 1967 ) is a Swedish-British television presenter in the UK, who became famous as a TV-am weather presenter and moved on to present Gladiators and became a team captain of the show Shooting Stars.

Alongside his work in music radio, he contributed regularly to BBC Radio 4's long running arts programme Kaleidoscope until it ended in 1998, and had worked in this role on TV-am.

After a couple of months on TV-am, Roland took the audience from 100, 000 to 1. 8 million.

The player had to guide Roland through the sewers of London and collect nine pieces of a door which, when complete, would allow him to rescue his companions in time for an appearance on TV-am.

He achieved cult status on BBC Radio Oxford and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and later on TV-am.

In 1983 he helmed Summer Run on Saturday mornings for ITV's breakfast station, TV-am.

But Mallett's big break happened the following year when he became a presenter of Wide Awake Club, a new Saturday morning children's programme on TV-am, with co-presenters Michaela Strachan, James Baker, Arabella Warner and later Tommy Boyd.

The Independent Broadcasting Authority awarded the breakfast franchise to TV-am on 28 December 1980.

Secondly, it was believed that the BBC's breakfast service would be highbrow, focusing on news and analysis, so TV-am had developed its new service to copy that.