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| Other names | America This Week (weekend version) |
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| Genre | News magazine |
| Running time | 1 hour (5:00 am – 6:00 am) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Syndicates | Mutual Broadcasting System Westwood One Dial Global/Westwood One |
| Starring | John Trout |
| Executive producer(s) | Kevin Delaney |
| Original release | September 17, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-09-17) |
| Sponsored by | Salonpas |
| Website | www.westwoodone.com |
America in The Morning is a news program airing on numeroustalk radio stations,syndicated byWestwood One, asubsidiary ofCumulus Media. The one-hour live program airs weekdays at 5:00 a.m.Eastern Time and is hosted by John Trout.
The show features reports fromAP Radio News, as well as a national forecast fromAccuWeather, a look ahead to the day onWall Street fromCNBC, and the short-form featureOffbeat.[1]
America in The Morning originally debuted on theMutual Broadcasting System on September 17, 1984.[2]Jim Bohannon hosted the broadcast from its inception until December 2015. At that point, Trout took over the hosting chores after Bohannon decided to cut back his schedule, concentrating on his nightly Westwood One talk program.[3]
Before his death in November 2022, Bohannon continued to contributefeature stories and interviews toAmerica in the Morning.[4]
A weekend version,America This Week, another former Mutual news program, is available from Westwood One.[5]
An alternate one-hour Westwood One news program known asFirst Light, hosted by news anchor Michael Toscano, also aired at 5 a.m. Eastern Time[6] until its cancellation on July 29, 2022. The two broadcasts had similar formats and some reporters were heard on both programs.