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      • Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden on September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, an author, and a television host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored eight books. She has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel.
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  2. Dec 30, 2022 · Joan became an official cohost of Good Morning America in 1980 alongside news veteran David Hartman. The Nobody’s Perfect actor left the series in 1987, leaving the door wide open for a new...

  3. Nov 29, 2021 · Joan Lunden and Charlie Gibson were morning show mainstays on "Good Morning America" in the 1980s and '90s. From 1980 to 1997, Lunden served as a host on the ABC morning program, per...

  4. For more than 15 years, Joan Lunden was a mainstay in American living rooms. Alongside her Good Morning America co-anchor Charlie Gibson, Joan helped make ABC's show the top rated in the morning lineup for a good part of the '90s. Then, in 1997, when the show's ratings began to stumble, Joan announced her departure.

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  5. Nov 18, 2015 · Joan Lunden, David Hartman, Diane Sawyer, Charlie Gibson, Spencer Christian, Sam Champion and Robin Roberts pose together during the "GMA 40 for 40" livestream to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ...

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    When a new president of ABC, Fred Silverman, took over the network in the summer of 1975, he put Shanks and another ABC vice president, Ed Vane, in charge of coming up with a true challenger to "Today." The two men combed through lists of names of possible hosts -- 150 or 200 by Vane's recollection. One name was David Hartman. Shanks called Hartman...

    Hartman himself was an alternative: He was a famous actor, not a reporter like the co-host of "Today" at the time, Jim Hartz. Hartman played a ranch hand on the Western series "The Virginian," then a doctor on "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" and an English teacher on "Lucas Tanner," all on NBC. In the early 1970s, an executive at NBC "asked if I'd...

    There was another important difference between "GMA" and "Today." "GMA" was a product of ABC's entertainment division, not ABC News. It was, as TV critics were quick to point out, "softer" than the "Today" show. While Hartman might dispute the s-word, he said it "had a different look and feel from a traditional news program," including a more conve...

    By the end of the decade, four years after "GMA" had launched, the two morning shows were effectively tied -- a position that neither show particularly liked. "GMA" had the momentum, but "Today" was still No. 1. Brokaw vented in a November 1979 conversation with The Associated Press: "I've been reading for two years now that ABC and 'Good Morning A...

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    Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden, September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, an author, and a television host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored over ten books. She has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel.

  7. Dec 30, 2022 · Joan became an official cohost of Good Morning America in 1980 alongside news veteran David Hartman. The Nobody’s Perfect actor left the series in 1987, leaving the door wide open for a new...

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