AM America

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AM America
Format	News program
Starring	Bill Beutel Stephanie Edwards
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	120 minutes (two hours) (including commercials, and local news/weather cut-ins [on some affiliates])
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	January 6, 1975 – October 31, 1975

On January 6, 1975, AM America premiered on ABC as The Morning Show, hosted by Bill Beutel and Roger Grimsby. The program's name was short-lived and the show was renamed AM America in April 1975, with Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards as co-hosts. Peter Jennings gave news reports throughout the program. On April 25, 1975, British comedy troupe Monty Python made one of their earliest American television appearances on AM America (all original members except for John Cleese appeared). Due to low ratings, AM America came to an end on October 31, 1975, when it was replaced with a more well-known, more successful effort, Good Morning America. The program's old name was revived on WABC-TV in New York City in the early 1980s.

[edit] Logo

The logo for AM America had the letters A and M colored in blue, while the rest of the word "America" was colored in red. The "AM" was overlapped with "America" and it looked a lot like the text was shortened to just AMERICA.