[3] These included Paul Hollingdale (the very first weekday presenter), Ray Moore, Peter Latham, Bruce Wyndham, and John Dunn.
During the Wogan era, the programme was also moved to a later start time of 7 am, with an Early Show preceding it, finishing at 9am.
During this period Wogan's cover again principally came from Ray Moore, who presented the Early Show at other times.
In April 1986 he was moved to the mid-morning slot which, along with brief stints on both the late and early shows in 1990-91, he occupied until 3 March 2023.
[5] Even though he made the show more news-based, Jameson became a popular broadcaster, regularly attracting audiences of 10 million, and remained in the role until 20 December 1991.
On 6 January 1992, Jameson was replaced by Brian Hayes, who took over what was still a news-based show and proved to be an even more controversial choice, as his perceived acerbic manner was seen as being at odds with what the Radio 2 breakfast programme had become.
Hayes was replaced by Sir Terry Wogan, who returned to the programme and the station on 4 January 1993, after the axing of his BBC TV chat show.
From here on in, the news-based elements of the show were dropped, and it returned to its more traditional music and chat style format.
He presented his final breakfast programme on 18 December 2009, which marked the end of 28 years over two stints working on the show.
Johnnie Walker then became the interim host of the programme in the period between Wogan's departure and Evans' arrival, from 21 December 2009 until 8 January 2010.
[8] The show then used guest hosts Paddy O'Connell, Sara Cox and Mark Goodier in the period between Evans' departure and Ball's arrival, from 26 December 2018 until 11 January 2019.
Mills' official tenure began on 27 January 2025, with Tina Daheley staying on as the regular newsreader and Ellie Brennan joining as the new travel reporter.