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The Channel Four Daily

Television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Channel Four Daily is a breakfast television news magazine, which was produced by Independent Television News, in collaboration with other independent production companies for Channel 4. The programme was Channel 4's first breakfast programme, broadcasting between 6 am and 9.25 am each weekday morning, although weekend editions were broadcast during the Gulf War. The first edition of the programme was broadcast on 3 April 1989, with the last edition being broadcast on 25 September 1992.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Channel Four Daily” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Channel, Four and Daily.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Channel, Four and Daily providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1992.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Channel Four Daily” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.