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| Genre | Early-morning news program |
| Created by | Roone Arledge |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 33 |
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| Production locations | ABC News Headquarters,New York City |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | July 5, 1982 (1982-07-05) – present |
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Good Morning America First Look (formerlyAmerica This Morning) is an American early morningnews program, broadcast onABC on weekday mornings, as an extension to its main programGood Morning America. The newscast is anchored by Perry Russom and Sophie Flay, who also serve as anchors of ABC's overnight news programWorld News Now. One of the two early morning news programs to use a two-anchor format, alongsideNBC'sEarly Today (CBS News Mornings maintains a solo anchor), it usually airs followingWorld News Now. It features national and international news headlines, live reports fromWashington, D.C., national weather and airport impact forecasts, a shortSportsCenter update from the late nightLos Angeles-based anchors of theESPN show to account for West Coast scores, and a regular business news segment called "America's Money".
The program is broadcast live at 3:30 a.m.ET followingWorld News Now (airing in the early timeslot to accommodate ABC stations that start theirmorninglocal newscasts at 4:00 a.m.). ABC-ownedWPVI-TV was one of the first stations to air local news starting at 4:00 a.m. beginning in September 2018. The show is transmitted in a continuous half-hourtape delayed loop until 10:00 a.m. ET, whenGood Morning America begins in thePacific Time Zone (after 7:00 a.m. ET, any livebreaking news requiring network-level coverage is under the purview ofGMA with some allowance to start earlier). The program usually airs as a lead-in to local morning newscasts on most ABC stations, although in the few markets where a morning newscast is not produced by the ABC station, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start ofGMA.
The program originally debuted under the titleABC News This Morning on July 5, 1982. In early 1983, the program was retitledABC World News This Morning. The program aired live at 6:00 a.m. ET for 60 minutes immediately prior toGood Morning America and was repeated on tape delay for western time zones. It was initially anchored bySteve Bell andKathleen Sullivan at the network'sWashington, D.C. newsroom-studio (as was most ABC News programming at the time). Production of the program was moved to ABC's headquarters in theLincoln Square, Manhattan district ofNew York City on July 11, 1988, whenForrest Sawyer andPaula Zahn debuted as co-anchors.
In mid-1992, production ofWorld News This Morning was combined with that of the network's then recently launched overnight news programWorld News Now, with the same anchor team appearing on both programs. Initially, some elements fromWorld News Now were brought over toWorld News This Morning including the "Morning Papers" segment and that program'sYanni-composed theme music (played over the originalWorld News This Morning opening graphics) as well as the laid-back attitude.
At some point in 1993, the originalScore Productions-composed theme was brought back and most elements fromWorld News Now brought over toWorld News This Morning were dropped as the program was reformatted to again became more serious in tone. As local stations expanded their morning newscasts,World News This Morning was first shortened into two separate 30-minute newscasts and later to the current, single, 30-minute newscast (which, if an affiliate does not provide a morning news program of its own, can be repeated back-to-back between 4:00 and 7:00 a.m. ET). From the cable network's launch in 1996 until almost all original programming was discontinued due to cost-cutting measures made byESPN on June 13, 2013, the program's sports update was provided by the overnight anchors ofESPNews, and later on, theHighlight Express; later that year, production of the sports segments was turned over to the Los Angeles-based production and anchor staff for the overnight editions of ESPN'sSportsCenter.
The news program celebrated its 20th anniversary during the summer of 2002. On November 13, 2006, the program's title was changed again toAmerica This Morning;[1] with the rebranding, the orchestral theme from Score Productions that had been used since the program's launch (outside of the short period when it was replaced byWorld News Now's original theme music) was retired permanently, and replaced with a modernized theme. With the rebranding, the program also began to align itself with the branding and on-air presentation ofGood Morning America, although it has otherwise remained under the auspices of theWorld News Now staff. On September 22, 2009,America This Morning andWorld News Now began broadcasting inhigh definition;America This Morning, in effect, became the second early morning network newscast to broadcast in HD, afterNBC'sEarly Today.
On August 30, 2010, ABC moved its live broadcast of the program to 4:00 a.m. ET (like its competitorsEarly Today and theCBS Morning News had already done) to accommodate affiliates that choose to start their morning local newscasts at 4:30 a.m. ET.[2] Some ABC stations (such asWTVC inChattanooga, Tennessee, which still does not air it today at all) were forced to pre-empt the program when they implemented it less than two months earlier.
As of September 10, 2018, many of ABC's owned and operated stations have begun their morning newscasts at 4:00 a.m. ET, initially pre-emptingAmerica This Morning in these regions beforeATM later began broadcasting live at 3:30 a.m. ET to accommodate.
On September 30, 2024, the program was rebranded toGood Morning America First Look.
| Block | Standard content |
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| A | Top stories and national weather |
| B | General news |
| C | Sports and general news |
| D | "The Pulse" |
| E | "Friday Funnies" (Fridays only) |
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World News/America This Morning has had threeannouncers in its history. From its 1982 debut until 1990, Bill Owen[3] served as the program's announcer. Following Owen's departure from the network in 1990, he was replaced by Barbara Daniels Korsen,[4] who remained the newscast's announcer until 2012.
Programming from ABC News, includingGood Morning America First Look, is shown daily on the 24-hour news networkOSN News inMENA Region.
