{"id":305268,"date":"2025-11-24T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305268\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:10:07","slug":"new-dawn-as-radio-scotland-breakfast-programme-goes-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305268\/","title":{"rendered":"New dawn as Radio Scotland breakfast programme goes on air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good Morning Scotland presenters Laura Maxwell and Gary Robertson have moved across to other programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robertson is replacing Geissler as the presenter of The Sunday Show on BBC One Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland as well as the hour-long radio news programme on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maxwell moves to BBC Radio Scotland&#8217;s early evening news show Drivetime, where she will share the single presenting duties with Fiona Stalker across the week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will also present editions of Lunchtime Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking when news of the new breakfast programme was announced in October, head of news and current affairs Howard Simpson said: &#8220;The launch of Breakfast marks a new chapter in the history of BBC Radio Scotland&#8217;s morning news service for audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;BBC Scotland News is more important than ever now in the disinformation age and the programme will have the journalistic rigour and depth our listeners have come to expect, with Martin and Laura bringing their distinctive energy, insight, and warmth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes come two months after the debut of the new Saturday Show on Radio Scotland, which is presented by Amy Irons and Steven Mill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Morning Scotland presenters Laura Maxwell and Gary Robertson have moved across to other programmes. Robertson is replacing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-305268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}