Sunrise (TV program)
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| Genre | Breakfast News Program |
| Starring | Co-hosts David Koch Melissa Doyle News Natalie Barr Sport Mark Beretta Weather Monique Wright |
| Country of origin | Australia |
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| Running time | 180 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Channel Seven |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV), 576p (EDTV) |
| Original run | January 17, 1991 – present |
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Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on Channel Seven. It airs at 6am - 9am weekdays.
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[edit] History
The history of Sunrise can be traced back to at least January 17, 1991 when 11AM newsreader Darren McDonald began presenting an early morning Seven News - Sunrise Edition bulletin prior to hostilities breaking out during the Gulf War [1].
In 1996, Seven introduced a one hour weekday bulletin called Sunrise News, later renamed Sunrise. Seven recruited Chris Bath from NBN Television to present the bulletin alongside Peter Ford.[1] Ford moved to other presenting roles in 1996, and was replaced by finance editor David Koch. In 1997, Chris Bath was transferred to Seven's 10.30pm News and was replaced by Melissa Doyle. Seven launched a Sunday bulletin hosted by Stan Grant, entitled Sunday Sunrise, in 1997.[2] Weekday Sunrise was cancelled in 1999, replaced by children's program The Big Breakfast.[3] Seven maintained half-hourly news updates during The Big Breakfast, and their Sunday bulletin was not affected by the axing.
During the Sydney 2000 Olympics Andrew Daddo and Johanna Griggs presented Olympic Sunrise from a leased apartment near Lavender Bay in Sydney which provided the Harbour Bridge and Opera House as stunning waterside backdrops.
In 2000, the program was replaced by a new version of Sunrise, hosted by Georgie Gardner and Mark Beretta, and music video program AMV. When Gardner left Seven to join the Nine Network, Anne Fulwood replaced her for a short time before the show was revamped yet again.
Other temporary Sunrise hosts up until this time include Leigh Hatcher (now host of breakfast bulletin First Edition on Sky News Australia) and Nick McArdle previous (weekend sport reader, Seven News Sydney).
In March 2002, Seven revamped their breakfast television schedule with Seven Early News at 6:00 a.m., hosted by Chris Reason (and only lasted around one week), and a new version of Sunrise from 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., hosted by Reason and Melissa Doyle. Sunrise from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. began in February the same year. David Koch was brought in to present the finance reports. In October of that year, Reason discovered he had another cancerous tumour behind his kidney and had to quit. Four years earlier he had undergone treatment for another growth.
Koch was appointed temporary presenter, a position made permanent. Sunrise was yet again revamped soon after Koch's appointment, focusing less on hard news and became more "family friendly". The show, along with its rival The Today Show on Nine, have become, in recent years, more tabloid focused, moving the realm of talk back radio into breakfast television. This has boosted ratings by moving people away from morning radio and the newspaper to the TV. In 2003, the show began to pick up ratings, and appointed Natalie Barr to present the news updates, followed by the appointment of former Network Ten journalist Grant Denyer to present weather reports, then the appointment of Mark Beretta, who was brought in to present sports updates. On September 1, 2004, Sunrise, Seven News Sydney, Seven Morning News, and Weekend Sunrise moved from their studios in Epping to the new Seven News centre at Martin Place. On January 29, 2007 Sunrise had a complete makeover with changes to the set and on-screen graphics.
[edit] Sunrise
[edit] Presenters
Sunrise is hosted by Melissa Doyle and David Koch, with Natalie Barr presenting news updates, Mark Beretta presenting sports updates, and Monique Wright with weather updates. Reporters for Sunrise include Simon Reeve and Grant Denyer. The program also has a regular cast of people who feature on the program. These include Peter Blasina with technology segments, Nelson Aspen with Hollywood gossip, Kathy Lette (United Kingdom) and Nick Etchells (United States) with the Global Notebook, Jono Coleman with movie reviews, Molly Meldrum with music segments.
Local traffic reports are broadcast in metropolitan areas during the advertisements of Sunrise. These are presented by Alf Paranihi (Sydney), Chris Thomas (Melbourne), Jay Flood (Brisbane), James Wirtanen (Adelaide), Breanna McMillan (Perth) and Brodie Bott (Hobart).
[edit] Format
Like most other breakfast television shows, Sunrise blends a mixture of news every thirty minutes, interviews and light-hearted feature pieces into three hours each morning. Often they will go out and present the show from other locations, such as Hawaii, Las Vegas, Athens and Disneyland and more recently Melbourne for their Commonwealth Games specials, Beaconsfield in Tasmania and Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. A major feature of the show is that the viewer can send in their responses to stories via email, SMS or phone. Viewers can also bring up issues they want reviewed or investigated and it is recorded on the ROSwall (Responses of Sunrisers).
[edit] Concerts
Sunrise has had different musicians come to Sunrise to perform. They include:
- Human Nature
- Young Divas
- Damien Leith
- Teddy Geiger
- Kate DeAraugo
- Guy Sebastian
- Anthony Callea
- The Wiggles
- Ne-Yo
- Simply Red
- Chris Isaak
[edit] Controversies
In 2003 an interview aired live with Sue Butler from the Macquarie Dictionary on the topic of swearing and what was acceptable.
- Sue Butler: Today’s taboos are all about labels that you use for people. So that the sentence, “you are a” is practically a no no. You cannot use...
- David Koch: Even if you use boofhead.
- Sue Butler: Even if you use boofhead because you’re putting it in the same context as things which are clearly rude. You know: “You are a fuckwit.” Well, obviously we know that’s bad.
Doyle and Koch immediately ended the interview and apologised afterwards. This did not prevent angry viewers writing and emailing in complaints over the interview. [4]
In 2006, a number of people including Sunrise presenters David Koch and Melissa Doyle, newsreader Natalie Barr, executive producer Adam Boland & Melbournes News reader Jennifer Kyete and Former Today Tonight host Naomi Robson faced court convictions over a story run in 2004 relating to a 14-year old boy who "divorced" his mother. Under the Victorian Children and Young Persons Act, it is prohibited to publish the identity of a child involved in Children's Court proceedings. While the Sunrise cast and crew were cleared of any wrongdoing the Seven Network itself was ultimately held responsible. [5]
Upon the rescue of trapped miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell in the aftermath of the Beaconsfield mine collapse, David Koch was invited into an ambulance. This led to rival Channel Nine and The Today Show labelling him an "ambulance chaser". [6]
On Monday, 4 December 2006 Sunrise Host David Koch as a custom read the joke of the day, which received public outcry. The Sunrise website quoting:
Kochie's joke of the day is being rested today after a controversial one yesterday. He got in a little strife from his big bosses. We're currently deciding whether to keep Kochie's joke. What do you think?
The Controversial Joke went along the lines of:
John Howard went skiing and his bodyguard saw 'John Howard is a Dork' peed into the snow...Johnny went off and told his guard to get a sample of it and find out who did it at all costs...The guard returned a day later and said we have good and bad news...Johnny asked what the good news was, and the guard retorted that it was Kim Beazley's urine...Johnny says right, he's stuffed now - throw the book at him...What's the bad news? The guard grins and says it was in Jeanettes handwriting.
[edit] Weekend Sunrise
In 2005 the Seven Network replaced its struggling Sunday morning program Sunday Sunrise with a program called Weekend Sunrise which is an hour long (8am - 9am) program with an identical format to Sunrise. The program has been successful and various critiques have called for the program to be lengthened to two hours (7am - 9am) and extended to Saturday mornings as well as Sunday. In 2006, Weekend Sunrise has increased from an hour to a two hour show, running every Sunday from 8am till 10am. When Sportsworld returned for the football season Weekend Sunrise settled into a 90 minute format; 8am - 9.30am but after Sportsworld's series concluded, the show returned to a two hour show. Andrew O'Keefe initially temporarily replaced host Chris Reason in 2006, but after improved ratings he was given the hosting position permanently.
[edit] Presenters
- Hosts:
Andrew O'Keefe
Lisa Wilkinson - News:
Simon Reeve - Sport:
Kylie Gillies
[edit] Sunday Sunrise
Sunday Sunrise was a Sunday morning hard news program, similar to Sunday, Meet the Press and Insiders.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Cockington, James. "Breakfast TV", Sydney Morning Herald, 1996-05-06, p. 4.
- ^ Money, Lawrence. "Stanley times three", Sunday Age, 1997-01-12, p. 14.
- ^ "Wake up with bright sparks", Adelaide Advertiser, 1999-07-28, p. 49.
- ^ Nincompoops at Sunrise, Media Watch, July 21, 2003
- ^ Fines for divorce story, Herald Sun, May 18, 2006
- ^ The Tapestry of Seven v Nine, Media Watch, June 5, 2006
[edit] External links
- Sunrise website
- Staged skit of Chris Taylor swearing on Sunrise (aired only on ABC program The Chaser's War on Everything)
- Interview on WHO.com with Mel and Kochie about their Cool the Globe campaign
| SUNRISE PRESENTERS |
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| Darren MacDonald - Peter Foord - Chris Bath - Georgie Gardner - Mark Beretta - Melissa Doyle - Chris Reason - David Koch - Natalie Barr - Lisa Wilkinson - Andrew O'Keefe |
