ABC News Scrambles to Fill Top Producer Slot at Good Morning America
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ABC is looking for a new producer to open the network for business each morning.
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The job is a critical one at ABC and its parent company, Walt Disney Co. “GMA” generated $293.6 million in advertising in 2020, according to Kantar, a tracker of ad spending, compared with $357.6 million for NBC’s “Today” and $185.4 million for “CBS This Morning” on CBS. And the show has recently been expanding. In 2018, ABC News launched an afternoon extension of the program that, after a shaky start, has functioned as sort of a news update for midday viewers. In 2019, ABC expanded the hours of the show’s Saturday broadcast, part of a bid to get more stations to run the program across the U.S.
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Good Morning America’s senior executive producer
Michael Corn is out at the ABC morning show.
“Michael Corn no longer works for ABC News,” an ABC News spokesperson told TVNewser.
An ABC News source tells us “everyone is stunned.” GMA has been the most-watched network morning broadcast for all of Corn’s tenure at the helm of show, which began in 2014. Before that, he was the executive producer of World News for three years, and had previously spent a decade at GMA as a producer.
The news of Corn’s departure comes just a day after two other big staffing changes were announced at the network: Kim Godwin was named the new president of ABC News, joining from CBS News; and Wendy McMahon, president of the ABC TV stations group, announced her departure effective immediately. TVNewser has learned McMahon is joining CBS to co-lead a combined CBS News and CBS TV stations group.
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Kim Godwin has been named president of ABC News, making her the first Black woman to run a broadcast TV news division.
Godwin, whose appointment was made official Wednesday by ABC parent Walt Disney Co., is exiting CBS News where executive changes are also underway.
CBS News President Susan Zirinsky confirmed to her staff that she will be leaving her post for a new role producing nonfiction programming at ViacomCBS, according to people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to comment.
A representative for CBS News had no comment on Zirinsky’s expected departure. The news veteran made it clear to staff that she is remaining with the company and will oversee a transition at the news division she first took over in Jan. 2019, according to a person who attended the meeting who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. No timetable was given for naming her successor.