''Good Morning Football'' is a live NFL morning television program on

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. The program premiered on Monday, August 1, 2016. It airs from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET. The program is hosted by

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, Jamie Erdahl,

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and Peter Schrager weekdays, and Colleen Wolfe on weekends. Analysts Michael Robinson and

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appear throughout the week, rotating as a fill in host on weekdays. NFL insider Mike Garafolo is featured all throughout the week.

Production

''Good Morning Football'' replaced earlier attempts by NFL Network at a morning television program, including '' NFL AM'' and '' NFL HQ''. Unlike its predecessors, which were filmed in

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, the show is produced live on the east coast. The move was made, in part, because doing the show required the live broadcasts to begin at 4 a.m. Pacific Time. According to chief content officer of NFL Media Jordan Levin, "There’s an energy to morning programming. The challenge is compounded when you have people who are literally doing the show in the middle of the night." The weekday program first utilized the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street as a condition of CBS holding the rights to ''

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''. ''Good Morning Football'' is the first NFL Network program to originate in New York since the network's launch in 2003.

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handles production of the show, with CEO Michael Davies as the executive producer. In May 2018, the weekday program moved from the CBS Broadcast Center to

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, inside a studio constructed within the new

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attraction. With the planned closure of the attraction, the show moved to

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's studios at

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with a new set debuting November 5, 2018. The weekend program is broadcast from NFL Films in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. On April 25 and 26, 2019, the program was simulcast by

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as part of coverage of the

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(which would see personalities from ESPN and NFL Network appearing as contributors on each other's studio programs).

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* * National Football League television series NFL Network original programming Television morning shows in the United States American sports television series English-language television shows 2016 American television series debuts 2010s American television talk shows {{US-TV-prog-stub