CP24 Breakfast | |
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Genre | News/ morning show |
Starring | Mika Midolo, Bill Coulter, Jennifer Hsiung, Nick Dixon, Jee-Yun Lee (weekdays)/various anchors and reporters (weekends) |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Production locations |
299 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Production company | Bell Media |
Original release | |
Network | CP24 |
Release | March 26, 2009 |
Related | |
CP24 Breakfast is a Canadian morning television news show that airs on CP24 ( Toronto's 24-hour local television news service) weekdays from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
The weekday edition does not currently have a host following the retirement of George Lagogianes. It is anchored by Nick Dixon and Jennifer Hsiung, Mika Midolo (temporarily off CP24 Breakfast due to cancer diagnoses [1]) as the transit and weather specialist, Bill Coulter is the meteorologist, and Jee-Yun Lee is the remote and Live Eye Host.
The 5:30 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. portion of the program is branded as CP24 Before Breakfast.
CP24 Breakfast first aired on March 26, 2009, displacing the simulcast of Citytv Toronto's Breakfast Television, which is now owned by Rogers Media and had been airing on CP24 since its inception in 1998. On the same day of the launch, CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) relaunched its Toronto-based oldies music radio station, 1050 CHUM, as a news/talk radio station CP24 Radio 1050 which the station operated primarily as a simulcast of CP24's television counterpart, which was later reverted to an all-sports radio format as TSN Radio 1050 as of April 2011. Prior to the launch of CP24 Breakfast, from February 2009, until March 25, 2009, CP24 had its own news inserts during commercial breaks on BT known as More On CP24 in which CP24 anchors would do extended morning news updates. Unofficially Citytv hosts had constantly referred to Breakfast Television being "only on Citytv, Cable 7" several months before CP24 launched its own new morning show.
The program debuted with Ann Rohmer as news anchor, Melissa Grelo and Matte Babel as co-hosts, live reporter Cam Wooley, weather specialist Nalini Sharma, and Bob Summers, Steve Anthony and Mika Midolo as part of the traffic team. Babel switched to the "Live Eye"[ clarification needed] six months later before leaving in 2010, Anthony took his place as cohost. Rohmer exited the show in June 2010 and was later replaced by Lindsey Deluce. Sharma went on maternity leave in early 2012 and switched to the "Live Eye" upon returning a year later before leaving the show altogether in 2014. Bill Coulter joined the weather team in her place. Deluce took a maternity leave in mid-2012 and was temporarily replaced by Farah Nasser who herself went on maternity leave, six months later. George Lagogianes filled her spot throughout her second maternity leave beginning in the fall of 2014. Lindsey Deluce returned to CP24 in late 2015; however, she soon left to join CTV's sister station's new breakfast show Your Morning. Gurdeep Ahulwaila took over as Anchor following her departure.
On March 19, 2011, CP24 extended its morning show with the launch of CP24 Breakfast Weekend Edition, becoming the first station in Toronto to serve a morning show seven days a week. The program was initially hosted by Gurdeep Ahulwalia (later replaced by Nneka Elliott) and Pooja Handa (later replaced by Travis Dhanraj). [2] [3]
In August 2011, CP24 once again extended its breakfast show to include Before Breakfast, initially the program was hosted by Lindsey Deluce, which airs weekdays from 5:00 a.m. - 5:30 a.m. [4] [5] As of Summer 2023, the Before Breakfast program was moved to a 5:30 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. timeslot, with reruns now airing from 5:00 a.m. to - 5:30a.m.
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2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |||||||||
Current hosts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill Coulter | Weather Anchor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nick Dixon | News Anchor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jennifer Hsiung | News Anchor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jee-Yun Lee | Remote Live Eye Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Former hosts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Ann Rohmer | News Anchor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Matte Babel | Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lindsey Deluce | — | News Anchor | |||||||||||||||||||||
Melissa Grelo | Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nalini Sharma | Weather/Remove Live Eye Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Steve Anthony | Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Cam Wooley | Field Reporter | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jamie Gutfreund | Remote Live Eye Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pooja Handa | Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Gurdeep Ahluwalia | News Anchor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
George Lagogianes | Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mika Midola | Transit Specialist |
The CP24 studio is on the second floor of 299 Queen Street West. Large north-facing windows look out towards Queen Street. The set and newsroom is home to CP24 Breakfast and most of the other CP24-produced programming. During the summer months the breakfast show also uses an outdoor patio for some broadcasts.
2020: Nomination for "Best Morning Show" - Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television [9]
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