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Diane Sawyer exited ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday with an emotional moment that recalled the biggest story of her time on the show: meeting the children born after their...
Dec 10, 2009 · By ABC News. December 10, 2009, 2:55 PM. Dec. 11, 2009 -- "Good Morning America." With that, we were off and running at 7:01 in the morning on Jan. 18, 1999. Charlie and Diane, side by side. Our first story that morning, a rare F4 tornado hits Jackson, Tenn.
- 'GMA' Born of The Ruins of 'A.m. America'
- Enter David Hartman: The Actor Turned Host
- 'GMA' Was Entertainment, 'Today' Was News
- After 4 Years, 'GMA' Catches Up with 'Today'
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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Dec 11, 2009 · Roberts pointed out that there were many people who wished they could join the "GMA" group and say goodbye to Sawyer in person, and at the end of Sawyer's final hour, 25 of those people...
After Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts delivered his morning coffee and glazed doughnut, Charles Gibson celebrated his final day on “Good Morning America” Wednesday after nearly 19 years as host.
Dec 3, 2009 · By ABC News. December 3, 2009, 10:27 AM. Dec. 12, 2009 -- "For one more time, 'Good Morning America.' I'm Diane Sawyer." After nearly 3,000 shows, Diane Sawyer said "Good Morning America" for the last time today as anchor of the broadcast. Sawyer opened the show with grateful words for her fellow anchors and the "GMA" audience.
May 18, 2020 · Back home in the U.S., Sawyer reported from New Orleans on the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in fall 2005. She also conducted a live, exclusive interview with President George W. Bush in the midst of widespread criticism of his administration’s handling of the storm.
