The original
Good Morning Australia breakfast television program was a news and entertainment show broadcast by
Network Ten on weekdays from 7:00 to 9:00am. It debuted on 23 February 1981 with
Gordon Elliott and
Sue Kellaway co-hosting and with
Di Morrissey as the roving reporter. 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 and became
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. == See also ==