Good Morning America

[MorningNews 1289]

I'm hoping it works out and leads to less of Pop News and less of Lara Spencer on the program...

[mountainave 530]

Ben Sherwood's first order of business as Pres. of DATG?

 

Can't find any info on this on the internet. Do the promos advertise Lara as the host?

[MorningNews 1289]

Ben Sherwood's first order of business as Pres. of DATG?

 

Can't find any info on this on the internet. Do the promos advertise Lara as the host?

My guess is that they aren't ready to make a full announcement yet, it's on their vimeo promo page. The promos show a lot of Lara and Rachel Smith. Looks like a few rough draft cuts which makes me think the program is still in the process of development.

[24994J 5269]

 

I'm hoping it works out and leads to less of Pop News and less of Lara Spencer on the program...

 

Maybe to the first one, and I doubt the second.

 

In the promo, there sure is a lot of Josh, and some of Sam. There are also a few cuts of Gio Benitez near the end, as well, so he might find a place on the show.

 

The video is on this page (for now)... http://vimeo.com/abcpromos/videos/page:4/sort:date

[BehindNYNews 143]

 

Maybe to the first one, and I doubt the second.

 

In the promo, there sure is a lot of Josh, and some of Sam. There are also a few cuts of Gio Benitez near the end, as well, so he might find a place on the show.

 

The video is on this page (for now)... http://vimeo.com/abcpromos/videos/page:4/sort:date

 

Thanks for the link. I actually like the idea of the show. It almost seems like GAA in a half hour on ABC Family. I wonder if this could be a test to see if they should move it to ABC?

[MorningNews 1289]

Tomorrow could be the first chance that we get to see who sits in for George when he's gone. He left the show early today to appear on JKL tonight (unless he gets on the flight to head back after the taping).

[24994J 5269]

 

Tomorrow could be the first chance that we get to see who sits in for George when he's gone. He left the show early today to appear on JKL tonight (unless he gets on the flight to head back after the taping).

 

One of these days we're going to have to find out who fills in for Ginger, too. Frankly, I'm surprised both of them have gone so long without a day off.

[MorningNews 1289]

Yep especially because Gingers wedding is coming up in the next month. At the rate they're going to name her weekend replacement, they'll probably just have her deliver the forecast in her wedding dress lol.

[nynewslover 269]

One of these days we're going to have to find out who fills in for Ginger, too. Frankly, I'm surprised both of them have gone so long without a day off.

I'm guessing they'll have someone from WABC or WPVI fill in for now.. Probably Lee Goldberg

[MorningNews 1289]

According to Ginger's twitter David Muir is filling in for George tomorrow.

[BehindNYNews 143]

David Muir is anchoring WN tonight, apparently he will be anchoring GMA tomorrow too.

[MorningNews 1289]

David does pretty good. He and Amy were really great together over the Christmas holiday filling in for Robin and George.

[BehindNYNews 143]

I don't know that this needs its own thread so I will post it here...

 

Diana Perez is leaving ABC tomorrow to spend more time with her children. She did hint that she would be back though. In terms of the next anchor, my money is on Marci Gonzalez.

[sanewsguy 509]

 

I don't know that this needs its own thread so I will post it here...

 

Diana Perez is leaving ABC tomorrow to spend more time with her children. She did hint that she would be back though. In terms of the next anchor, my money is on Marci Gonzalez.

 

Like her filling in for three months wasn't a tryout for Diana's position... I hope they do promote Marci Gonzalez though. I like her. Has a great personality and fits the program well.

 

Now they just need to find a way to get rid of John Muller, he's not that good. As bland and boring as they come. He would be better as a reporter.

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Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but I asked Ginger who will be filling in for her while she is away. She said that there will be a bunch of different people, including Spencer Christian.

[24994J 5269]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but I asked Ginger who will be filling in for her while she is away. She said that there will be a bunch of different people, including Spencer Christian.

[sound of news junkies salivating.]

[MorningNews 1289]

Spencer??? Oh my God that will be incredible!

[sanewsguy 509]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know who ABC's off camera in-house meteorologists are? Ginger Zee right now mentioned two people named Max and Samantha upstairs in the weather office.

[MorningNews 1289]

Yes I believe they are the off screen meteorologist. Ginger refers to them often on her social media outlets.

[mountainave 530]

For a while Gerard McNiff was ABC's meteorologist. Maybe he's not there anymore.

 

Here's an article: http://www.juliewan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/gerard-mcniff.pdf

[24994J 5269]

Humor me for a moment...

 

Good Morning America may have had a rotating cast in the last 6 months, but they've stayed on top of said changes on their Facebook page, always with well-done, attractive cast photos...

 

And this is the current cover photo...

 

 

Looks pretty good, right?

 

So, why is it that America's #1 morning show is using THIS abomination on the network's marketing site? This "photo" was cobbled together when Josh and Sam were on the show, with additions made as necessary...

 

 

I mean, really. Ginger's face is flipped, for goodness sake! It looks like crap, and that's just my two cents on this pointless issue.

 

As you were...

[MorningNews 1289]

I really don't understand why they won't just use the current Facebook photo although the guide on TV has updated from that epic fail crop job picture to the one with the crew gathered around the desk which led me to believe that this was their official cast photo but I guess not. Honestly it looks terrible.

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I thought about starting a new thread for this but decided against it.

 

I would like to know why ABC has decided to let their stations basically do what ever they want for their local news crawl during Good Morning America. In fact I think their national news ticker which is replaced when a local affiliate keys over their headlines looks horrendous and doesn't mat the graphical style at all.

 

Compare this to what the Today Show and CBS This Morning use where it fits into their graphical style perfectly and requires little operator intervention. For Today all the affiliate has to do is to edit a simple text document and their Namedropper HD system formats it and the machine does the rest. I'm not familiar with what CBS uses but I'd reckon its similar. But for both of them it's essential a set it and forget it operation where the network sends cues for when the crawl should appear or disappear.

[Jess 1110]

As far as Ginger Zee, the instructions so far seem to be "use Philadelphia's weather department". Cecily Tynan's doing Mon-Wed and Adam Joseph's doing Thursday and Friday.

[mountainave 530]

It does seem Cecily has been a regular between GMA Weekend and now GMA. I wonder why they haven't been having Bill, Lee, or Jeff from WABC.