Good Morning America will say goodbye to its iconic Time Squares studio this summer season after almost 26 years within the warmth of Manhattan.
TVNewser can verify that ABC Information’ flagship morning present will be a part of different ABC Information and ABC Information Reside packages on the Robert A. Iger constructing in 7 Hudson Sq..
{The summertime} transfer was first reported by The Los Angeles Occasions.
GMA has been in Occasions Sq. since September 1999 when the present was led by Diane Swayer and Charlie Gibson. Tennis star Serena Williams was one of many first friends on the then-new studio, and was interviewed by Sawyer and Robin Roberts, who was an ESPN sports activities anchor on the time.
Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, and Michael Strahan celebrated GMA’s twentieth anniversary in Occasions Sq. in September 2019. The festivities included a seven-minute reel of classic footage, a Broadway musical mashup that includes the casts of The Lion King, Aladdin, and Frozen, and the rehanging of a wood American flag from a earlier GMA studio.
Named after the pinnacle of ABC Information’ mother or father firm, Disney, the Robert A. Iger constructing homes ABC Information’ consolidated New York operations together with information, editorial, reside productions, streaming, expertise, promoting, company, and enterprise help capabilities. Lots of these capabilities have been beforehand positioned at its services at 47 West 66th Avenue within the Higher East Aspect.
The View was the primary present to make the transfer to 7 Hudson Sq.. Different ABC Information packages have adopted, together with the O&O affiliate station WABC, which had been based mostly out of the West 66th location since June 1979.
Information of GMA’s departure from Occasions Sq. comes on the heels of CBS Mornings leaving its Occasions Sq. studios later this 12 months to return to the CBS Broadcast Heart. The transfer comes amidst cost-cutting measures by the community’s mother or father firm, Paramount International.
