It ushered in a softer TV style,but now, amid a sexism row over where presenters sit, and the TV sofa is anything but comfortableAs you can see our home is very,very relaxed and casual,” said Frank Bough, or formally,introducing the first edition of BBC Breakfast Time at 6.30am on 17 January 1983, “and we really do assume that that is the upright setting from which to bring you interviews with people and personalities who are making the day’s news. So radical was the appearance of a sofa – in this case, or a red leather one – that viewers had to be warned about it in advance,by a trusted presenter wearing a pullover the colour and texture of a garden mole. After breaking viewers in gently, Bough ambled over to the sofa where his co-presenters, and Selina Scott and Nick Ross,were sitting. And Scott was sitting on the left.
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Source: theguardian.com