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Steve and Karen's Breakfast Show

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Genre
  
Music radio

Country
  
United Kingdom

Home station
  
Metro RadioTFM

Running time
  
240 minutes

Language(s)
  
English

Hosted by
  
Steve FurnellKaren Wight

Steve & Karen's Breakfast Show, is a local radio breakfast show, presented by Steve Furnell and Karen Wight and currently airing on Metro Radio and TFM in the North East of England.

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History

The radio breakfast show began on Tuesday 1 June 1999 when Steve Furnell launched regional radio station Galaxy North East. Karen Wight become his co-presenter in January 2001 after a year as senior broadcast journalist with the station.

Galaxy was rebranded as Capital North East on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's Galaxy and Hit Music networks to form the nine-station Capital radio network. Furnell and Wight were retained at the relaunched station.

On 14 July 2011, Metro Radio breakfast presenter Tony Horne left, prior to his contract ending. Furnell and Wight were announced as his replacements two months later, remaining at Capital until 23 December 2011. The Steve & Karen Breakfast Show aired on Metro for the first time on 6 June 2012 after 5 months of being off-air due to a clause in the contracts issued by their previous employers, Global Radio.

The show resumed airing in Teesside and North Yorkshire on Monday 8 April 2013 when TFM merged with Metro and ceased all local programming outwith news.

Current features

The show currently uses the following features in its broadcasts:

  • Morning Glory - Answer a question correctly and win the 'Morning Glory'.
  • Scrambled Songs - Steve or Karen sing lyrics from one artist over music by another and the caller has to guess the two artists.
  • Baby Jukebox Generator - A song from the year a caller's child was conceived is played.
  • Tombola of Doom - Two contestants compete in answering some random questions in a certain amount of time. The player with the most points wins an 'I took on the Tombola of Doom and won' t-shirt.

    • Previous features

  • Hummer Bummer - Steve or Karen hum a song and a caller must answer correctly.
  • Missing Link - Karen gives a caller two things for them to guess the link.

    • References

    Steve & Karen's Breakfast Show Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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