1975: Launch Year
On January 6, 1975, ABC tried to compete with NBC's "The Today Show" (The Today Show), so it produced and broadcast "AM" America" ??program. The ABC show is co-hosted by Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards (TV), with news presented by Peter Jennings. The show's ratings were poor and it was unable to compete with "Today" co-anchors Jim Hartz and Barbara Walters, so ABC began looking for a new target.
At the same time, they discovered that the affiliate station WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio, did not broadcast "AM America" ??but instead broadcast the locally produced program "The Morning Exchange." Unlike "A.M. America" ??and "The Today Show," "The Morning Exchange" is characterized by a relaxed atmosphere, providing real-time news and weather conditions after the beginning and end of each hour, and interesting and relevant discussions at other times. Entertaining theme. This program has also established a regular guest team, whose members are experts from various fields, such as health, entertainment, consumption, tourism, etc. Another difference is that this program is not broadcast on the anchor station, but is broadcast in a living room-like studio.
ABC picked up an episode of "The Morning Exchange" for a pilot. It received an enthusiastic response immediately after the pilot, so in November 1975, "Good Morning America" ??was broadcast in this format, replacing the original "A.M. America". The first host of "Good Morning America" ??was David Hartman, and Nancy Dussault was hired to co-host. Dussault was replaced by Sandy Hill in 1977.
1976-1989: Growth and Change
According to AC Nielsen's survey, although "Good Morning America" ??climbed slowly, it still grew steadily in the 1970s. By the 1980s, the Today Show was suffering from audience losses, especially when Barbara Walters decided to leave NBC for a job at ABC. On August 30, 1976, the Today Show hired Tom Brokaw to take over the anchor job. During this year, the Today Show planned to counter the ratings threat posed by Good Morning America. Female anchor Jenny Pauley was hired to team up with Brokaw, and new host Gene Shalit was hired to take charge of arts and entertainment-related issues.
In the 1980s, "Good Morning America" ??continued to threaten the "Today Show." Especially when Brokaw left the "Today Show" and went to co-host "NBC Nightly News" with Roger Mudd, "Good Morning America" ??beat the "Today Show" for the first time and became the first-rated morning show in the United States. results, "Today Show" was squeezed into second place.
Initially, "Good Morning America" ??was actually a talk show hosted by David Hartman. Later, Nancy Dussault and Sandy Hill were added, and the new members It’s because I read more manuscripts than I do hosting duties. In 1998, Hill left the show and was replaced by Joan Lunden. She is an anchor from WABC in New York. Under the leadership of Hartman and Joan, the show was quite successful for several seasons. Joanne's popularity in particular led to her becoming one of the main presenters. However, the collaboration between the two ended after Hartman retired on February 20, 1987, the day the 3,189th episode was broadcast.
After Hartman retired, Joan began to partner with Charles Gibson on February 20, 1987. The ratings also soared instantly. The two of them became the last TV series in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A welcome TV news tie-in. This is also the first time that "Good Morning America" ??regularly beat NBC's "Today Show" in ratings.
1990-1998: Rise and Fall
After Good Morning America became an overwhelming ratings success in the 1990s, Joan & Gibson became a show that was hard to beat. However, starting from the latter part of 1995, the combination gradually shifted from being smooth to being unstable. Mainly because Joanne started asking for less work and mentioned to the network producers that these morning schedules were quite grueling. Therefore, ABC's decision-makers agreed to give her a prime-time program - "Behind Closed Doors", which will be included in ABC's plans. Finally, on May 23, 1997, Joan decided to step down from the anchor station where she had been for twenty years. After she left the show, she was replaced by Lisa McRee, and the show Almost got taken off the air.
Especially after Gibson also left the show in 1998 and was replaced by Kevin Newman, and during the period when McCrea and Newman took over the hosting duties of "Good Morning America", many viewers switched to watching the "Today Show" , and as a result, the "Today Show", which has taken the lead again since December 11, 1995 and continues to maintain the number one spot, has soared in ratings.
1999-2000: Gibson and Sawyer
On November 18, 1999, in a desperate situation, ABC decided to make a desperate move and reached an agreement with Gibson to return to the show. And found Diane Sawyer to co-host. The pairing was originally supposed to be a short-lived pairing until ABC could find a suitable replacement. However, due to the appearance of this pairing, "Good Morning America" ??once again defeated the "Today Show" in ratings during the broadcast, although its popularity among viewers during the week was still not better than the "Today Show". Therefore, "Good Morning America" ??was unable to change Gibson, Sawyer and their team for seven and a half years, until March 18, 2000, when news anchor Antonio Mora left the show and went to Chicago. WBBM-TV, and he was replaced by former ESPN anchor Robin Roberts.
On August 30, 1999, production of this program moved from ABC News' headquarters in Lincoln Square to the current location of the Times Square soundstage. This new location allows the program to feature an outdoor live broadcast room for the audience.
In May 2005, ABC announced that Robert, the new anchor, would be promoted to a major position. Before this, she had often filled in for Gibson or Sawyer. At that time, "Good Morning America" ??still failed to comprehensively beat "The Tonight Show" in ratings, although one or two episodes occasionally won, such as on the day of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. When Mariah Carey held a concert in 2005, "Good Morning America" ??won in major viewing areas (such as New York) during its broadcast time. This may be an indicator that "Today" viewers are migrating to "Good Morning America." However, recently, the difference in the audience base of these two programs has expanded again.
On November 3, 2005, "Good Morning America" ??celebrated their 30th anniversary by renovating their studio in Times Square. Former anchors David Hartman and Joanne Langdon, as well as former weather expert Spencer Christian, have become special guests on the show. Hartman signed his own words of wisdom for the show that day: "From all of us, make it a good day." That day's "Good Morning America" ??also became the first in the United States. A morning news program produced in high definition.
On December 3, 2005, weather broadcaster Tony Perkins left the show. He had been working as a weather broadcaster since 1999. They changed the last part of the day's program to Ten minutes were dedicated to Perkins, during which he thanked the show's producers and said a heartfelt goodbye to all three anchors, including Gibson, Sawyer and Robin. Perkins announced that he would return to his family and settle in Washington, DC. There he will return to work at WTTG-TV, where he previously served as anchor. He also emotionally said to his children in the air: "Connor, if you're watching, daddy's comin' home." (Connor, if you're watching, daddy's comin' home.) After that, his position He will be replaced by former morning sports anchor Mike Baz at WGN-TV in Chicago.
On June 28, 2006, David Gibson also ended his hosting work on "Good Morning America". As anchor, he contributed nineteen years to the show and celebrated that he was finally able to leave the anchor's chair. When Gibson ended his long career in this position, he said: "Nineteen years, "For 19 years, my mornings have been not just good — they've been great."
2006: The Sawyer and Robert Era< /p>
It is generally predicted that Diane Sawyer will leave "Good Morning America" ??when her contract expires in 2007. Because in fact, she had always hoped to get the ABC World News anchor position originally held by Gibson. In August 2006, "Good Morning America" ??appointed its new anchor Chris Cuomo. In addition to continuing his anchor duties at ABC, he also continues to serve as a senior correspondent for "ABC News." At the same time, Sam Champion was named the new weather anchor and weather editor of ABC News. Since then, while "Good Morning Today" was reshaping its appearance on September 5, 2006, Como and Qian Bin began to shoulder their respective responsibilities.
For Como, reporting news is also a new job in the field of journalism. At the same time, on November 13, 2006, "Good Morning America" ??also introduced their new logo, this time with gold fonts and a blue background. The logo is similar to the one used by "Good Morning America" ??in 1987. It was also used in the same program on digital TV, which was a head-on blow to the rival "Today Show".
On June 29, 2007, Joey Segal, the film critic of this program, passed away due to cancer at the age of 63. Therefore, the July 9th episode is a special episode dedicated to Siegel. Several former anchors including Hartman, Hill, Landon, Newman, Christie, Perkins and Gibson all participated in the show. And shared their memories and nostalgia for Sickert.
On July 31, 2007, anchor Robin Roberts announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She discovered the problem herself while preparing Seagal's memorial album. She did not undergo chemotherapy until Still continuing to work as an anchor, she completed all radiation treatments on March 28, 2008.
On October 22, 2007, Good Morning America introduced their new show look, which featured the design they had used in their early years, adding more gold to the original basic blue. Yellow design. Their opening changed from the original way of the host zooming in on the camera when introducing other people, to matching music (produced by the local New York music production company "DreamArtists Studios"), and adding the "Good Morning America" ??logo. For the background on the screen, for the first time in many years, they also changed the style of the original clock on the screen. The small clock features an orange background with the ABC News logo.
After presenting the new look of the show, British fashion critics Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine also specifically mentioned this in their coverage of the 80th Academy Awards.
In a show interview on January 15, 2008, Diane Keaton said that she admired Sawyer's beauty and declared that if he had the same lips as Sawyer, then " I wouldn't have worked on my fucking personality!" She also said that she would be married now. Keaton quickly apologized for her statement, and Sawyer threatened Keaton with her mother to "control your personality and wash your mouth with soap." This violated Federal Communications Commission regulations and resulted in fines being imposed on the producers of "Good Morning America" ??and the head of ABC. Commission officials stated that recent legal action and policy changes may cause them to feel uncertain about taking any action.
"Good Morning America" ??(Good Morning America, referred to as GMA) is a morning news program broadcast on ABC, which was launched on November 3, 1975. It airs for two hours Monday through Friday, with the third hour airing exclusively on ABC News Now. This program features news, talk, weather and interesting stories.