[London Lite]

Even if not extended don't see why BBC1 feels the need to fill the hour with news. Guess MOTD reruns will fill the slot for a few weeks.

MOTD is 7.30-9am, so the BBC News simulcast will continue until September.

[m_in_m]

MOTD is 7.30-9am, so the BBC News simulcast will continue until September.

This didn't happen last year. They ran an additional religion and ethics programme. 

14 August MOTD 0745 to 0915
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Schedule - BBC Programme Index

  Source: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

Similar happened the following two weeks that I checked but with MOTD ending at 0900.

[Spencer]

I thought they might have made a special effort with it being on BBC One, but it was the usual World skewed slow agenda programme

At the start straight into a long winded down the line interview recorded earlier that drags on about 10 minutes

A far cry from the days when BBC News 24 would actually produce a political programme for this slot during the summer, such as News 24 Sunday with Peter Sissons. Does anyone know the last time there was a specific summer filler programme like this?

[Radio_man]

A far cry from the days when BBC News 24 would actually produce a political programme for this slot during the summer, such as News 24 Sunday with Peter Sissons. Does anyone know the last time there was a specific summer filler programme like this?

"News 24 Sunday" was the last proper summer filler program for the Sunday 9 - 10am slot. It was initially brought in to fill the gap between "Breakfast with Frost" finishing in May 2005 and Andrew Marr starting his new show in September 2005, but it returned again in summer 2006 and 2007. 

In summers after this when the Andrew Marr show took a break, we then got an hour of the BBC News Channel, albeit of course before this year, it could be an hour of UK focussed news and there was a UK paper review at 9:30am.

[Brekkie]

When was it Breakfast went seven days a week? They also had "Weekend 24" on BBC2 on Saturdays year round prior to that (think it was an hour at 8am). IIRC before the Salford move the weekend breakfast shows came from the News Channel desk rather than Breakfast sofa anyway, but were branded as Breakfast.

[Rolling News]

"News 24 Sunday" was the last proper summer filler program for the Sunday 9 - 10am slot. It was initially brought in to fill the gap between "Breakfast with Frost" finishing in May 2005 and Andrew Marr starting his new show in September 2005, but it returned again in summer 2006 and 2007. 

In summers after this when the Andrew Marr show took a break, we then got an hour of the BBC News Channel, albeit of course before this year, it could be an hour of UK focussed news and there was a UK paper review at 9:30am.

I think it was during one summer when we first got the paper review at 9:30 on a Sunday morning, before it became a regular thing at that time. Could be wrong though.

[DTV]

When was it Breakfast went seven days a week?    They also had "Weekend 24" on BBC2 on Saturdays year round prior to that (think it was an hour at 8am).    IIRC before the Salford move the weekend breakfast shows came from the News Channel desk rather than Breakfast sofa anyway, but were branded as Breakfast.

Breakfast has been seven days a week since it launched in 2000, though weekends were only on BBC Two initially (and not simulcast in full during the early years). This was often listed under the Weekend 24 brand, which was a carry-over from the flags era, but was branded on screen as Breakfast. Once the Saturday breakfast slot was extended to the full four hours, it was three hours of Breakfast and one hour of BBC News 24 (which remained listed as Weekend 24). Sundays moved to BBC One after 9/11, with Saturdays not moving until the start of 2006 (though it had also been on One during summer 2004).

You're right that it's only since the move to Salford that it has come from one studio seven days a week, previously weekends and bank holidays came from the main News 24/News channel studio (so as a) not to have to staff TC7 on a Saturday and b) because TC7 was set-up for the Sunday politicals on Sunday mornings, including rehearsing for Frost/Marr).

[sigma421]

I'm sure Weekend 24 continued for a bit after the Breakfast launch - although it was just a name with standard BBC News 24 branding at that point.

[Rolling News]

I'm sure Weekend 24 continued for a bit after the Breakfast launch - although it was just a name with standard BBC News 24 branding at that point.

I think it did, but using the Breakfast 'template'

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[DTV]

I'm sure Weekend 24 continued for a bit after the Breakfast launch - although it was just a name with standard BBC News 24 branding at that point.

Yes, the Weekend 24 brand was used off-screen until the 2006 relaunch. In the earliest days of Breakfast, the Saturday edition was officially just one hour on News 24, with 'Weekend 24' following for two hours (and at least simulcast in part on BBC Two), though presented by the same presenters and only namechecked as Weekend 24, with no special branding. 

In 2002, Two's Saturday morning news block was extended and the whole thing was listed as 'Weekend 24', though still including Breakfast branding in part. By around 2004, it settled into a three-hour Breakfast block, followed by one hour of News 24 listed as 'Weekend 24' - with ISTR Bill Turnbull presenting the whole four hours, but with Carrie Gracie? taking over at 09:00.