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.

This was followed by installation of a standard television studio, first used by TV-am ( for outside broadcasts ) and later Nickelodeon.

This franchise was awarded to TV-am, a breakfast-television station.

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.

* 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

After the success of The Six O ' Clock Show, Dyke was brought in by Jonathan Aitken to become programme director at ailing station TV-am in 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.

Roland Rat was introduced to ailing breakfast television network TV-am by Anne Wood in 1983 and was generally regarded as its saviour, being described as " the only rat to join a sinking ship ".

Mallett's personality came to dominate the show to such an extent that when TV-am found itself lacking a school holidays programme after Roland Rat left to join the BBC, he was offered the chance to present the replacement solo.

Rantzen was one of the founders of TV-am, the company selected to launch ITV's breakfast television service.

TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 at 06: 00 GMT until 31 December 1992 at 09: 21 GMT.

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.

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.

ITN had presented Ford as their female programme anchor as part of their bid, unaware that she was planning on defecting to TV-am.

The archive of TV-am programmes made between 1983 and 1992 was taken over by Moving Image Communications Ltd.

Wide Awake Club ( often abbreviated to WAC ) was a children's television series broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV's breakfast franchise TV-am between 1984 and 1989.

In series 2 this was Annette Lynton (" Nettie ") and from series 3 onwards, TV-am weather girl Wincey Willis.

As well as the Nolans, other people appearing as " themselves " included Midge Ure and Anne Diamond ( then an anchor woman for breakfast TV station TV-am ; it was rare then for the BBC to mention rival channels ).

To the north of Camden Town station and running along the canal is a modern pop art complex designed by Terry Farrell as the studios of the former TV-am, now used by MTV but retaining TV-AM's eggcup sculptures along the roof line.

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

He has also offered to save struggling ITV breakfast show Daybreak by stepping in and repeating the astonishing turnaround he achieved in the 1980s for 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.

While TV-am as an independent station had used an expensive of custom-built studio complex at Camden lock, GMTV used studio space at The London Studios owned by one of GMTV's shareholder's LWT.

" TV-am ", the TV-am logo, and fifteen registered trade marks are now owned by journalist Ian White.

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

The use of puppets may be considered a resurrection of the technique used by TV-am earlier in its history with Roland Rat.

The programme outlived its parent by two years, but ended in 1992 when TV-am lost its franchise.

In 1982, 6, 000 people assembled on the Downs, in response of to a local newspaper advertisement placed by the makers of the new breakfast television show TV-am.

* 1983 Daybreak — start up music for TV-am in its early years, also used as the theme to the hour-long early morning news programme of the same name ( also on TV-am ), initially presented by Robert Kee ;

Adamson celebrated the character's death by delivering an obituary on TV-am dressed as an undertaker.

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.

Jay subsequently returned to journalism in Britain but was initially most visible as leader of a consortium of high-profile media figures, including David Frost and Anna Ford, who won the licence for an idea that did not work according to its business plan: he was founding chairman of TV-am, the breakfast TV station launched by the consortium, where the initial focus on news and current affairs did not yield economic success for the company ( the first to broadcast outside traditional broadcasting hours in Britain ).

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

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.

The TV-am logos on the front of the building were obscured but were still partially visible.

In 2012, plans were released to demolish the former TV-am studios.

GMTV held the licence for the breakfast Channel 3 franchise since 1993, when it outbid the previous at 06: 00 until 09: 25 GMT Channel 3 licence-holder, TV-am, in the 1991 franchise rounds, which were announced on 16 October that year.

The 6, 000 people were used to make the words ' Good ', ' Morning ' and ' Britain ', used for the opening titles of the TV-am show, of the same name.

The Zelda cartoons were originally shown in the early 1990s on the early morning TV show, TV-am.

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.