abc.go.com abc.go.com Good Morning America has been bringing viewers their morning news and gossip for more than four decades. Starting in 1975, the program turned the morning show format on its ear with the conversational tone it took to deliver both hard news stories and lighter features. Though it has struggled to keep up with Today, the show has its highest viewership ever. Here are seven facts about Good Morning America you didn’t know.
Number Seven: The Name of the Show Comes from a Steve Goodman Song
After the failure of A.M. America in early 1975, ABC revamped their show by gaining inspiration from local morning shows. Although one of these shows was named Good Morning!, the real name for the show came from an old Steve Goodman song. In the chorus to “City of New Orleans,” Goodman sings the line “Good morning America, how are ‘ya,” about riding the rails and greeting the day. The sentiment and recognition were good, and the network appropriated it for their show.
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Such a pairing had never been done before this on a morning news program. The result was a surge in viewership that brought the program into a virtual tie for first with Today.
Number Three: ‘Good Morning America’ Was the First Morning Show to Report On Location
Good Morning America did its first on location broadcast in 1986 from Windsor Castle the week that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married. This marked the first time that a morning show would do an entire broadcast from a location other than their studio. The show continued to do remote broadcasts for important world events. Between 1999 and 2005, Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer broadcast the show from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the Pentagon, the Vatican and the White House.
Number Two: Two of Their Co-Hosts Have Documented Their Cancer Treatments Live On
Number Seven: The Name of the Show Comes from a Steve Goodman Song
After the failure of A.M. America in early 1975, ABC revamped their show by gaining inspiration from local morning shows. Although one of these shows was named Good Morning!, the real name for the show came from an old Steve Goodman song. In the chorus to “City of New Orleans,” Goodman sings the line “Good morning America, how are ‘ya,” about riding the rails and greeting the day. The sentiment and recognition were good, and the network appropriated it for their show.
Number Six: It Won a Daytime …show more content…
Such a pairing had never been done before this on a morning news program. The result was a surge in viewership that brought the program into a virtual tie for first with Today.
Number Three: ‘Good Morning America’ Was the First Morning Show to Report On Location
Good Morning America did its first on location broadcast in 1986 from Windsor Castle the week that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married. This marked the first time that a morning show would do an entire broadcast from a location other than their studio. The show continued to do remote broadcasts for important world events. Between 1999 and 2005, Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer broadcast the show from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the Pentagon, the Vatican and the White House.
Number Two: Two of Their Co-Hosts Have Documented Their Cancer Treatments Live On