GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Good Morning America (GMA) is an American morning television show that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3, 1975, and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3, 1993. The program features news, interviews, weather forecasts, special-interest stories, and feature segments. It is produced by ABC News and broadcasts from the Times Square Studios in New York City’s Times Square district. The primary anchors are Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Lara Spencer, along with newsreader Amy Robach and weather anchor Ginger Zee. Good Morning America has been the most watched morning show in total viewers and key demos each year since Summer 2012. (More from Wikipedia)
Melissa Etheridge had a memorable appearance at the 2005 Grammy Awards, where she performed “Piece of My Heart” in a tribute to Janis Joplin. She was slick bald at the time due to chemotherapy for breast cancer (from which she recovered); and the boldness of her appearance there – some years before Robin Roberts’ shorn locks on Good Morning America – only endeared her further to the American public.
(January 2014)
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One Friday recently, we had Good Morning America on as we usually do. They have their Friday Summer Concert Series each year; this May, Green Day was the inaugural act, and did that bring back some great memories. It was fun seeing them in their element so many years after their founding. Their performance of “Basket Case” was as good as I have ever heard it; also broadcast were “Know Your Enemy” and “Still Breathing”.
(June 2017)
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We have been bombarded with important anniversaries this year. Closer to home, our local television station, WLOX-TV was formed in 1962, so we have been seeing a lot of old footage. Beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts – now recovering from a second round of cancer treatment – worked at WLOX for a few years and also grew up on the Coast (in Pass Christian); she almost single-handedly brought knowledge to the major media of the devastation from Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, when most talked only of New Orleans. Chuck Scarborough got his start at WLOX-TV as well; when I lived in New York, I used to see him on the local news at WNBC-TV, where he has been the lead male news anchor for nearly 40 years.
(Year 3 Review)
