Good Morning Australia (1981–92)
| Good Morning Australia | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | 'GMA' |
| Genre | Breakfast News Program |
| Presented by |
Co host Gordon Elliott Sue Kellaway Kerri-Anne Kennerley Sandra Sully |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
| No. of episodes | 2,877 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Running time | 120 minutes (inc. ads) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Network Ten |
| Picture format | 4:3 PAL (1981-1992) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 2 March 1981 – 18 December 1992 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The Big Breakfast (1992-1995) |
Good Morning Australia (or GMA) is an Australian breakfast television series on Network Ten. It debuted on 2 March 1981 until December 1992.
Synopsis
The original Good Morning Australia breakfast television program was a news and entertainment series broadcast by Network Ten on weekdays from 7:00 to 9:00am. It debuted on 2 March 1981 with Gordon Elliott and Sue Kellaway co-hosting. Kellaway departed shortly after the program began and was replaced by Kerri-Anne Kennerley, who stayed with the program until the end of 1991 when she was replaced by Sandra Sully, Joy Smithers and then Sandra Sully again.
The male co-host position on GMA was filled by Tim Webster, Mike Gibson, Terry Willesee, Webster again, Mike Hammond and Ron Wilson.
The breakfast program competed with the Nine Network's Today (which launched in 1982 with Sue Kellaway, initial co-host of the Ten show) and usually placed second in the ratings behind Today.
In 1992, Good Morning Australia moved to the 6:30 to 8:30am timeslot, coinciding with the launch of The Morning Show with Bert Newton. Good Morning Australia, as a breakfast news program, was cancelled at the end of 1992. The name was taken over by Bert Newton's morning program to become Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton, which ran until 2005.
Since the demise of the original Good Morning Australia, other breakfast programs have arisen such as Sunrise and ABC News Breakfast, Weekend Today, Weekend Sunrise and Weekend Breakfast.