
Good Morning America will say goodbye to its iconic Time Squares studio this summer after nearly 26 years in the heat of Manhattan.
TVNewser can confirm that ABC News’ flagship morning show will join other ABC News and ABC News Live programs at the Robert A. Iger building in 7 Hudson Square.
The summertime move was first reported by The Los Angeles Times.
GMA has been in Times Square since September 1999 when the show was led by Diane Swayer and Charlie Gibson. Tennis star Serena Williams was one of the first guests at the then-new studio, and was interviewed by Sawyer and Robin Roberts, who was an ESPN sports anchor at the time.
Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, and Michael Strahan celebrated GMA’s 20th anniversary in Times Square in September 2019. The festivities included a seven-minute reel of vintage footage, a Broadway musical mashup featuring the casts of The Lion King, Aladdin, and Frozen, and the rehanging of a wooden American flag from a previous GMA studio.
Named after the head of ABC News’ parent company, Disney, the Robert A. Iger building houses ABC News’ consolidated New York operations including news, editorial, live productions, streaming, technology, advertising, corporate, and business support functions. Many of those functions were previously located at its facilities at 47 West 66th Street in the Upper East Side.
The View was the first show to make the move to 7 Hudson Square. Other ABC News programs have followed, including the O&O affiliate station WABC, which had been based out of the West 66th location since June 1979.
News of GMA’s departure from Times Square comes on the heels of CBS Mornings leaving its Times Square studios later this year to return to the CBS Broadcast Center. The move comes amidst cost-cutting measures by the network’s parent company, Paramount Global.
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