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3 unusual facts about The Breakfast


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Other Freakout themes have included The Big Lebowski and the Star Wars series, where the band has played sets that interspersed their own music with songs from the movies.

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

Phish bassist Mike Gordon was in attendance and then joined the band for the encore and their cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", which featured Gordon on bass, Spears on guitar, and Palmieri on vocals and dressed and singing as Tony Clifton.



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The station then became part of the Community Radio Network in 1998 with all content outside the breakfast show being fed from Taupo and in 2001 part of the Classic Hits FM network with the station name becoming Classic Hits Radio Waitomo.

Basetsane Kumalo

Kumalo had a stint on Metro FM, when she hosted the Breakfast show on 10 August 2006.

Bill S. Ballinger

Working in radio and advertising in the early 1940s, Ballinger wrote 81 radio scripts and produced The Dinah Shore Show, The Breakfast Club, and Lowell Thomas broadcasts.

Brian Daly

Daly joined Sky News from Irish channel TV3, where he had worked since the channel's launch in 1998 and anchored the breakfast show Ireland AM.

Brigitte Duclos

Currently she is a co-host of the breakfast radio program on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne alongside Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann.

Colin Griffiths

Griffiths began his work as a broadcaster as the host of the breakfast show (and later the afternoon Drive time show) on the regional UK radio station 'Livewire' at the University of East Anglia, serving as the Deputy Station Manager of the station from 2001 to 2003, this show was also hosted with Rhys Peterson and was later moved to Brighton when the pair graduated in the form of their Radio Reverb show.

Des McLean

He soon became the co-host on the breakfast show with George Bowie, with the two men winning Sony Radio Academy Awards in the Best Breakfast and Entertainment Categories.

Diane Abbott

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.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club initially was broadcast from the NBC studios in the Merchandise Mart.

Fitzy and Wippa

Ryan Shelton left Nova to focus on his television career and Katie Dimond (Monty) moved to Sydney to join Merrick Watts and Scott Dooley at Nova 96.9 on the breakfast show.

Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show

In 2005, he and Pete left the breakfast slot and Geoff began his own late-night show, The Geoff Show in early 2006.

Henry McGee

He was also remembered by some as the 'mummy' of Honey Monster, a large, yellow, furry creature in advertisements for the breakfast cereal Sugar Puffs.

Ian McGregor

The road, rail and river travel was presented on the breakfast show by Karen Redmond Smith who also worked for White Horse Ferries which ran the Gravesend-Tilbury ferry service, and on drive time by Claire Holley and Helen Downs.

Jeff Pillars

He currently writes and performs for the breakfast radio programme, the John Boy and Billy Big Show in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Jon Briggs

Having worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4 current affairs programmes, he went on to spend two years anchoring the breakfast news program for BBC Radio 5 when the corporation launched its first new station for 23 years.

Julian Worricker

In the summer of 2006, Worricker appeared on BBC Breakfast and in December 2006, he reported from Australia during The Ashes for the Breakfast programme on Five Live.

Keeley Donovan

She often does the breakfast and weekend bulletins for the Look North programmes in Leeds and Hull, being based at the BBC Centre in Leeds.

Michael Christian

He commentated football matches for Network Ten, as well as hosting the breakfast program, Prime Time Sports Interactive on Sport 927 with Angela Pippos and has hosted AFL post-game analysis show The Fifth Quarter with Andrew Maher since 2004.

Moorlands Radio

Ex BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Sheffield and BBC Radio Stoke presenter Mervyn Gamage presented the breakfast show from 2003 until 2010 and worked for a period of time as manager.

Peter Deeley

From 1985-1990 he was the breakfast anchorman at LBC alongside Douglas Cameron.

Peter Helliar

In 2004, Helliar was signed to do the breakfast shift on Austereo's Sydney station 2Day FM with Judith Lucy and Kaz Cooke.

Phil Trow

In March 2013 he left the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Derby after 3 years and returned to present the Drive Time show on BBC Radio Manchester.

Red Symons

At one point, he filled in for Lynne Haultain on the breakfast program for that station, where he was such a success that he was retained permanently in that slot.

Snow on tha Bluff

On the Breakfast Club program on New York radio station Power 105.1, Williams described the movie's truthful portrayal of the hood.

Sugar Smacks

Sugar Smacks was the original name of the breakfast cereal now known as Honey Smacks

The Long Christmas Dinner

The Long Christmas Dinner inspired a famous scene in Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane — the breakfast-table montage in which the nine-year deterioration of Kane's marriage is told through a conversation seen in five vignettes.

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show

Other DJs who have hosted the breakfast show for more than five years are Mike Read, Simon Mayo and Chris Moyles.

Todd McKenney

McKenney hosted the breakfast program on Sydney radio station Mix 106.5 with Dancing with the Stars co-host Sonia Kruger and Andy Grace from January 2008 until September 2009.

Ugly Phil

As of September 2007, Ugly Phil's Breakfast program has ceased, replacing his program with The Morning After starring Tim Shaw and Kate Lawler, Big Brother (TV series) 3 UK winner, in the Breakfast shift.

Vixen 101

That time of day was chosen to coincide with the first part of the station's frequency of 87.9 FM, with a national news bulletin at 7:00 a.m. followed by the breakfast show at 7:03 a.m., presented by the founder himself, starting off with the track "Inner Smile" by the pop group Texas.

We Are Not Alone

"We Are Not Alone", song by Karla DeVito from the soundtrack to the 1985 film The Breakfast Club

Zoat

In the Rogue Trader Edition of the rules, it was said that they ate "Zoatibix", which is a pun on the breakfast cereal "Weetabix"