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, broadcast on ABC on weekday mornings. The newscast is anchored by Andrew Dymburt and Rhiannon Ally, who also serve as anchors of ABC's overnight news program ''

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''. One of the two early morning news programs to use a two-anchor format, alongside

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'' (the ''

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'' maintains a solo anchor), it usually airs following ''World News Now''. It features national and international news headlines, live reports from

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, national weather and airport impact forecasts, a short '' SportsCenter'' update from the late night

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-based anchors of the

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show to account for West Coast scores, and a regular business news segment called "America's Money". The program is broadcast live at 3:30 a.m.

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following ''

'' (airing in the early timeslot to accommodate ABC stations that start their

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local newscasts at 4:00 a.m.). ABC-owned

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was one of the first stations to air local news starting at 4:00 a.m. beginning in September 2018. The show is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delayed loop until 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, when '' Good Morning America'' begins in the Pacific Time Zone (after 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, any live

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requiring network-level coverage is under the purview of ''GMA'' with some allowance to start earlier). The program usually airs as a lead-in to local morning newscasts on most ABC stations, although in the few markets where a morning newscast is not produced by the ABC station, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start of ''GMA''.

History

The program originally debuted under the title ''

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This Morning'' on July 5, 1982. In early 1983, the program was retitled ''ABC World News This Morning''. The program aired live at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time for 60 minutes immediately prior to ''Good Morning America'' and was repeated on tape delay for western time zones. It was initially anchored by Steve Bell and Kathleen Sullivan at the network's

newsroom-studio (as was most ABC News programming at the time). Production of the program was moved to ABC's headquarters in the

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district of

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on July 11, 1988, when

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and

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debuted as co-anchors. In mid-1992, production of ''World News This Morning'' was combined with that of the network's then recently launched overnight news program ''

'', with the same anchor team appearing on both programs. Initially, some elements from ''World News Now'' were brought over to ''World News This Morning'' including the "Morning Papers" segment and that program's

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-composed theme music (played over the original ''World News This Morning'' opening graphics) as well as the laid-back attitude. At some point in 1993, the original

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-composed theme was brought back and most elements from ''World News Now'' brought over to ''World News This Morning'' were dropped as the program was reformatted to again became more serious in tone. As local stations expanded their morning newscasts, ''World News This Morning'' was first shortened into two separate 30-minute newscasts and later to the current, single, 30-minute newscast (which, if an affiliate does not provide a morning news program of its own, can be repeated back-to-back between 4:00 and 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time). From the cable network's launch in 1996 until almost all original programming was discontinued due to cost-cutting measures made by

on June 13, 2013, the program's sports update was provided by the overnight anchors of

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, and later on, the ''Highlight Express''; later that year, production of the sports segments was turned over to the Los Angeles-based production and anchor staff for the overnight editions of ESPN's '' SportsCenter''. The news program celebrated its 20th anniversary during the summer of 2002. On November 13, 2006, the program's title was changed again to ''America This Morning''; with the rebranding, the orchestral theme from Score Productions that had been used since the program's launch (outside of the short period when it was replaced by ''World News Now''s original theme music) was retired permanently, and replaced with a modernized theme – along with a new graphics package – the program's on-air appearance had previously been styled after that used by ''WNN'' and ''

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''. Since the program adopted its current title, although it has remained under the same production as ''World News Now'', ''America This Morning'' has gradually been integrated with ''Good Morning America'' branding-wise (in effect, retooling it as a complementary program to ''GMA''); the program's current title logo is designed similarly to the logo ''Good Morning America'' began using two months prior to the title change, and it eventually adopted that program's graphics package and theme music (composed by DreamArtists Studios) in 2013. On September 22, 2009, ''America This Morning'' and ''World News Now'' began broadcasting in high definition; ''America This Morning'', in effect, became the second early morning network newscast to broadcast in HD, after

's ''

''. On August 30, 2010, ABC moved its live broadcast of the program to 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone (like its competitors ''Early Today'' and the ''

'' had already done) to accommodate affiliates that choose to start their morning local newscasts at 4:30 a.m. ET. Some ABC stations (Such as WTVC in

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) were forced to pre-empt the program when they implemented it less than two months earlier. As of September 10, 2018, many of ABC's owned and operated stations have begun their morning newscasts at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, initially pre-empting ''America This Morning'' in these regions before ''ATM'' later began broadcasting live at 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time to accommodate.

Newscast structure

Notable on-air staff

Current anchors

* Andrew Dymburt (2021–present) * Rhiannon Ally (2022–present)

Former anchors

* Steve Bell (1982–1986) * Kathleen Sullivan (1982–1986) * Jeanne Meserve (1986–1987) * Jed Duvall (1987–1988) * Edie Magnus (1987–1988) *

(1988–1989) *

(1988–1990) * Mike Schneider (1989–1993) * Aaron Brown (1993) * Boyd Matson (1993–1994) *

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(1993–1997) * Kevin Newman (1995–1996) * Mark Mullen (1997–1998) *

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(1997–1998) *

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(1999–2000) *

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(late 1990s) *

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(2000–2003) *

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(1999–2003) now at

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) * David Muir (2003–2004) *

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'') *

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(2007–2008) *

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(2008–2010; now at

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) *

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(2008–2011; now with

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) * Rob Nelson (main co-anchor, 2010–2013; substitute anchor, 2013–2018) *

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(2012–2013) * John Muller (2013–2014; now with

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) * T. J. Holmes (2014–2015) * Reena Ninan (2014–2016; now with CBS News) * Diane Macedo (2016–2018) * Kendis Gibson (2016–2019; now with

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) * Janai Norman (2018–2020) * Kenneth Moton (2019–2021) *

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(2020–2022)

Announcers

''World News''/''America This Morning'' has had three

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s in its history. From its 1982 debut until 1990, Bill Owen served as the program's announcer. Following Owen's departure from the network in 1990, he was replaced by Barbara Daniels Korsen,Barbara Daniels Korsen
/ref> who remained the newscast's announcer until 2012.

International broadcasts

Programming from ABC News, including ''America This Morning'', is shown daily on the 24-hour news network

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Region.

References

External links

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