CP24 Breakfast


CP24 Breakfast is a Canadian morning television news show that airs on CP24 weekdays from 5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., and weekends from 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The weekday edition is currently hosted by Pooja Handa and George Lagogianes, with news anchor Gurdeep Ahluwalia, Mika Midolo as the transit and occasional weather specialist, and Bill Coulter as the meteorologist.
The Weekend edition is hosted by Kelly Linehan, Brandon Gonez, and Kayla Williams
The 5:00 a.m. - 5:30 a.m. portion of the program is branded as CP24 Before Breakfast, and the 5:30 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. block is branded as CP24 Early Breakfast.

History

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 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 with Melissa Grelo and Matte Babel as co-hosts, live reporter Cam Wooley, weather specialist Nalini Sharma with Bob Summers, Steve Anthony and Mika Middolo as part of the traffic team. Babel switched to the "Live Eye" 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 mat leave, six months later. George Lagogianes filled her spot throughout her second mat leave beginning in the fall of 2014. Lindsey Deluce returned to CP24 in late 2016, however, not too long after, she left to join CTV's sister station new breakfast show "Your Morning". Nowadays, the weekday breakfast show is hosted by Gurdeep Ahulwaila.
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 and Pooja Handa
In August 2011, CP24 once again extended its breakfast show to include Before Breakfast, hosted by Lindsey Deluce, which airs weekdays from 5:00 a.m. - 5:30 a.m.
On March 19, 2018 CP24 Breakfast celebrated their 10th anniversary and many former hosts returned.
In September 2019 Jamie Gutfreund announced he was moving to another position on CP24 and was leaving the CP24 Breakfast Weekend show, as well as the live eye host for the weekday show. He was replaced with Brandon Gonez from Your Morning.

Set

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.

Criticisms

The show was criticized a lot on the hosts' banter level and a less serious format than CP24's rest-of-the-day journalistic output.

Notable presenters

Weekdays