Good Morning America

About Good Morning America

Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, WEWS, and was launched nationally as Good Morning America in 1975.

The show features news, talk, weather, and special interest stories. It is produced live from Times Square Studios in New York City and fed to all network affiliates. It was the first network morning news program to broadcast in HDTV (rival Today began broadcasting in HDTV beginning on September 13, 2006). The program is currently hosted by Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts. Longtime anchor Charles Gibson left the program on June 28, 2006 to become the lead anchor at ABC World News. When major events happen in Washington or anywhere else in the world, during the morning hours, then the show is often broadcast from Washington, D.C. or wherever the place is.

In January 1975, ABC launched AM America in an attempt to compete with the The Today Show on NBC, hosted by Jim Hartz and Barbara Walters. ABC's show was hosted by Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards, with Peter Jennings reading the news. The show could not find an audience against The Today Show, so ABC started to look for a new approach. While looking around, they found that one of their affiliates, WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio, was not broadcasting A.M. America but instead was airing a locally produced show called The Morning Exchange.