''Good Morning Football'' is a live

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. The program premiered on Monday, August 1, 2016. It airs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET. The program is hosted by

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, Jamie Erdahl, and

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. NFL reporter Sherree Burruss gives news updates. NFL analysts

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, Michael Robinson, Isaiah Stanback, and

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appear regularly. NFL insiders Mike Garafolo, Tom Pelissero, and

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are 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 at network studios 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.

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. 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

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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 its CEO Michael Davies as the executive producer. In May 2018, the weekday program moved from the CBS Broadcast Center to 20 Times Square, inside a studio constructed within the new NFL Experience 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

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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). In March 2024, it was reported that the program would relocate to the NFL Network's

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studios ahead of the

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In addition, on May 9, 2024, it was announced that Sony Pictures Television would

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an extension of ''Good Morning Football'' that will air alongside the portion on NFL Network, with

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handling ad sales, and

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(the local station division of NFL broadcaster

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) as its core station group. The syndicated show is branded ''GMFB: Overtime'' and is also available to stream on

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