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It’s the get of the day on the story of the day: ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos has netted the first TV interview with Jason Collins, the veteran NBA center who today became the first active player on a major U.S. sports team to announce that he is gay. The Good Morning America anchor will sit down with the free agent center from the Washington Wizards on Tuesday morning. The GMA interview then will go out on all ABC News platforms during the day. The timing is especially good for Disney-owned ABC in that the May sweep kicked in Thursday and the network is airing the NBA Playoffs along with ESPN, NBA TV and TNT. But there’s a headline-grabbing sidebar to the story for Disney. As the media began to digest the story and its repercussions, ESPN commentator Chris Broussard delivered some eyebrow-raising remarks when discussing the Collins matter on-air. “If you’re openly living that type of lifestyle, the Bible says you know them by their fruits, it says that that’s a sin,” he said. “If you’re openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, I believe that’s walking in open rebellion to God and Jesus Christ.” As the flashpoint story inevitably broadens in the coming days and weeks, it’ll be worth keeping an eye on how the various media outlets play it. Stay tuned.
ABC’s ‘GMA’ Lands First Interview With Jason Collins
‘Good Morning America’ Wins First Quarter With Best Result Since Mid-1990s
Good Morning America has topped the morning show wars for the first quarter of 2013 in total viewers and the adults 25-54 demographic over the sliding Today. With an average audience of 5.389 million, it marks the first time the top-rated morning show has won the quarter in total viewers since 1994. With 2.2026 million in the demo, it is also the first time GMA has been tops among the 25-54 in the quarter since 1993. Adding to the trophy cabinet, GMA has scored its second straight quarterly win in adults 25-54 since the second and third quarters of 1994. Continuing its total viewership winning streak for a third straight quarter, the ABC show is now tied with the record it set from the first to third quarters of 1994. This quarter saw a big ratings boost for GMA with the return of co-anchor Robin Roberts on February 20 after a five-month leave to undergo a bone marrow transplant.
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‘Today’ Beaten By ‘Good Day NY’ 2nd Month In A Row, ‘GMA’ Wins Week Again
Once is bad, twice is worse for Today. For a second consecutive month, the NBC morning show was beaten in its home market by Fox station WNYW’s Good Day New York. In the February sweep, Good Day New York won over Today with an average 1.3/9 rating compared with the NBC show’s 1.2/8. That marked the first time 
that’s happened since Nielsen’s Local People Meters were introduced in 2003. With the close of the March frame, Good Day New York garnered a 1.4/9 to Today’s 1.3/9. The local show had 115,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demographic on average in March, compared to Today’s 105,000. The local show is up 23% versus its performance with adults 25-54 last March. Today, on the other hand, is down 27% from last year. The spread this month was similar to the February difference: Last month, Good Day New York had an average of 112,500 viewers in the demo, while Today had 102,700.
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‘Good Morning America’ Wins 1st February Sweep Since Mid-1990s
As expected, Good Morning America has topped the morning show February sweeps for the first time since Bill Clinton was President. The ABC AM series, which won the November sweeps last year, beat out rival NBC’s … Read More »
‘Good Day NY’ Beats ‘Today’ During Sweep, ‘GMA’ Posts Largest Lead In 19 Years
The bad news keeps coming for NBC‘s embattled Today. In the show’s home market, New York, Today was beaten by Fox station WNYW’s Good Day New York for the first time since the introduction … Read More »
Robin Roberts Back At ‘GMA’ Anchor Desk
Robin Roberts this morning co-anchored her first Good Morning America since leaving more than five months ago to undergo a bone marrow transplant to treat a rare blood disorder. “I keep pinching myself and I realize that this is real. This is really happening,” Roberts said. She already … Read More »
Robin Roberts To Return To ‘GMA’ Feb. 20
On today’s Good Morning America telecast, George Stephanopoulos announced that his co-anchor Robin Roberts will be back on the air February 20, with her return and the countdown to it happening during the current February sweep. She will resume duties part-time, gradually expanding to hosting the show five … Read More »
Robin Roberts Visits ‘Good Morning America’ Set For Test Run
Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts today made her first visit to the set of the ABC morning show since her bone marrow transplant in September. She arrived at the studio at 5 AM for … Read More »
Robin Roberts Returning To ‘GMA’: Video
The Good Morning America co-anchor’s last show before departing for a bone marrow transplant was August 31. She joined her crew via satellite today to say she’s received the all-clear from her doctors to begin the process of returning to the ABC morning show — beginning with … Read More »
‘Good Morning America’ Launching Post-Show Web Program
GMA Live will premiere Monday as a 15-minute extension of the ABC morning show and stream on GoodMorningAmerica.com, Yahoo and ABCNews.com at 9:15 AM — immediately following the TV broadcast. Josh Elliott, Lara Spencer, Sam Champion and … Read More »
‘Good Morning America’ Wins 1st November Sweeps Since Mid-’90s
ABC‘s Good Morning America won the November sweeps, as expected, for the first time in nearly two decades. GMA won in both total viewers averaging 5.31 million and adults 25-54 (2.023 million), according to Nielsen Media Research. GMA … Read More »
‘Good Morning America’ Set To Win First November Sweep Since 1994
ABC’s Good Morning America looks like it will win the November sweep in the key 25-54 demographic and total viewers for the first time since the middle of the 1990s. The early morning show pulled in 2.034 … Read More »
Will Tom Hanks’ F-Bomb On ‘Good Morning America’ Re-Open Fleeting Expletives Issue?
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the now-infamous 2002 Billboard Awards where an “f-bomb” in Cher’s acceptance speech triggered a long, drawn-out legal battle between the FCC and the broadcast networks. It reached all the way to the Supreme Court, which rendered a decision in May that didn’t strike down the FCC’s authority to go after so-called fleeting expletives (though it questioned to what extent the agency wants to crack down on racy content on broadcast television.) Will the FCC use its power again after actor Tom Hanks also uttered the f-word on live TV, during a segment this morning on Good Morning America.
In his defense, Hanks was prompted by host Elizabeth Vargas to show off the accent he uses in the sci-fi movie Cloud Atlas he was there to promote and was reluctant, noting that he mostly used the accent for curse words in the film. When Vargas persisted, he did a few lines and sure enough, an f-bomb slipped through, leading to profuse on-air apologies by him and Vargas. ABC News quickly issued a statement on the accident, calling Hanks’ use of expletive “accidental” and noting that “the show was corrected for all subsequent feeds”. With the Internet it’s hard to hide such blunders, though, with a clip featuring the unedited ‘f-bomb’ making the rounds this morning. (Check it out below.) Read More »
Ann Romney To Guest Host On ‘GMA’, Filling In For Robin Roberts
ABC confirms Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, will be
filling in as guest anchor for Robin Roberts on Good Morning America during … Read More »
‘Good Morning America’ Continues Its Steady Ratings Rise Over ‘Today’
GMA’s steady rise in ratings over rival NBC’s Today in the past few months shows no sign of slowing down. GMA opened the 2012-13 season as the No. 1 morning news program in both Total Viewers (4.95 … Read More »
Stephen Colbert On ‘GMA’: Jon Stewart Will “Eat Bill O’Reilly’s Liver” In Debate
Stephen Colbert joined Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos this morning to talk about his new book, America Again: Re-Becoming The Greatness We Never Weren’t. He also weighed in on tomorrow’s presidential debate and the upcoming weekend debate between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly, saying he thinks Jon Stewart … Read More »
‘Today’ Exec Producer Defends Ann Curry Ouster, Rips ‘Good Morning America’
Today has been more a soap opera than a morning-news program of late, and executive producer Jim Bell today finally addressed some of the drama. The best part of his comments to the New York Times is his contention that among the many reasons for Today ending its 16-year winning streak in the ratings to rival Good Morning America is that Today is a “more serious show”. When asked if he meant that GMA is more a tabloid-style program, he said, “Yes, that’s what I’m saying”. As for the ouster of Ann Curry after only a year as co-anchor, Bell said that decision was all his — and not anchor Matt Lauer’s, as had been rumored. “Hindsight is 20/20″, Bell said. “You can sit there and think this or that, but we’re comfortable with that decision (to make her anchor) and the one we’ve made now.” Read More »
Stephen Colbert, ‘Modern Family’ Cast To Guest Host On ‘Good Morning America’
We’re getting more details on who will be stepping in as Good Morning America guest hosts while Robin Roberts is on medical leave. Stephen Colbert, the cast of Modern Family and Rob Lowe will be … Read More »
‘GMA’ Pulls Ahead Of ‘Today’ By Biggest Margin In Decades
Good Morning America beat rival Today last week in total viewers and the adults 25-54 demo by the widest margin in 18 years. GMA outperformed its NBC morning-show rival by 883,000 total viewers for the week of August … Read More »
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