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in recent years, breakfast has become known for a focus on campaigns around health issues, such as a series of items on former rugby league player rob burrow, who has motor neurone disease. here s a couple of examples from the past few days. tim, andy and mike, the three dads walking. each lost a daughter to suicide in september. in september, they walked between all four uk parliaments, calling for suicide prevention to become a compulsory part of the school curriculum. the idea of doddy8 is to do any exercise you want swimming, running, cycling, anything and record it on the doddie aid app. every individual bit of exercise done is counted on the app and then added to a leaderboard. now, in its third year, doddie aid has already raised a remarkable £2 million for research. features like those don t go down well with all the audience. here s one viewer who got in touch with us. hello. i m a big fan of bbc breakfast and have been watching for many, many years, but latel ....
to suicide in september. they walked between all four uk parliaments calling for suicide prevention to become a compulsory part of the school curriculum. the idea is to do any exercise you want swimming, running, cycling, anything and record it on the doddie aid app. every individual bit of exercise done is counted on the app and then added to a leaderboard. now, in its third year, doddie aid has already raised a remarkable £2 million for research. features like those don t go down well with all the audience. here s one viewer who got in touch with us. hello. i m a big fan of bbc breakfast and have been watching for many, many years, but lately it seems that it s become very one note in terms of reports on campaigning. many years, but lately it seems that it s become very one note in terms of reports on campaigning. i m in awe of the work that mnd campaigners do, for example, and the ladies who brought across, i think, the north sea or the atlantic and the dads who ve ....
It s not like the six 0 clock news. it s not the ten 0 clock news. and that s notjust true of us. but i look across the media landscape at breakfast time, and whether you re talking about us or any of our rivals, you see that same sort of mix at breakfast. i can onlyjudge it based on the reaction we get from our audience, and that s why programmes like newswatch are of value. the emails we get in, the tweets that i see, the audiences contacting viewer complaints. we take all those things on board. i think, look, news is often subjective to many people. everybody has a view about what you should and shouldn t cover. people have a view about what issues you should and shouldn t cover. 0n newswatch. it s a subjective industry and we take a view about the issues we think we should cover, the stories we should cover, often based on audience interaction. and when we do that, i think it gives the audience a range of stories that they enjoy on a daily basis. do you think that one of the reason ....
0n newswatch. it s a subjective industry and we take a view about the issues we think we should cover, the stories we should cover, often based on audience interaction. and when we do that, i think it gives the audience a range of stories that they enjoy on a daily basis. do you think that one of the reasons there are more complaints we were wondering is because so much of breakfast is now simulcast on the news channel, and people watching the news channel, you know, they used to know if i turn on the news. i ll get a news bulletin, essentially with news interviews. and they don t get that anymore. well, look, breakfast has been on the news channel since, what, 2000, right? 95% of our audience is on is on bbc one. just a very small section of it is on the news channel. and the only comparison i can give you is there s only one time of the week when we re exclusively on the news channel and not on bbc one. ....