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Don McNeill's Breakfast Club was a long-running morning variety show on NBC Blue Network/ABC radio (and briefly on television) originating in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Don McNeill, the radio program ran from June 23, 1933, through December 27, 1968.
7 maj 1996 · The Breakfast Club ended its remarkable 35-year network run on December 27, 1968. Don McNeill died on May 7, 1996. The Breakfast Club was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
Chicago's Century of Progress was news when Don McNeill took over an ugly-duckling early morning radio show on June 23. He introduced a new format, four calls to breakfast, March Time and Memory Time, sprinkled it with corn and his personality, and called it Breakfast Club.
Curator's note: Twenty-four hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Don McNeill and the Breakfast Clubbers had their hands full. News bulletins from New York and London repeatedly interrupt the show.
GSMC Classics: Don McNeill's Breakfast Club podcast on demand - Don McNeill's Breakfast Club was a long-running morning variety show on NBC Blue Network/ABC radio (and briefly on television) originating in Chicago, Illinois.
The longest running network series in radio history, the Breakfast Club was emblematic of the freewheeling style of the golden age of Chicago broadcasting. Almost two years after its 1933 debut, host Don McNeill decided that scripts interfered with the informal atmosphere he wanted.
Here's a chance to learn more about Don and his remarkably long-lived "Breakfast Club" radio broadcast by viewing some of the original text and photos from the 1953 Breakfast Club yearbook. Follow the links below and learn about the show's first twenty years (there were still fifteen years to follow!):
