| Good Day L.A. | |
|---|---|
| Genre | News |
| Presented by | Jillian Reynolds Steve Edwards Dorothy Lucey |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 120 min (1993-2005) 180 min (2005-) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | KTTV |
| Original run | June 18, 1993 – present |
Good Day L.A. is a television talk show aired on KTTV (Fox 11), the Fox Broadcasting Company-owned and operated station in Los Angeles, California. The show airs Monday through Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM and is simulcast live on myfoxla.com. The show is hosted by Jillian Reynolds, Steve Edwards and Dorothy Lucey.
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Good Day L.A. debuted on June 18, 1993 as a competitor to the KTLA Morning News, which began two years before. At its inception, the show carried a similar format to KTLA's production. It was a two-hour program and was anchored by Antonio Mora and Susan Lichtman. Mark Thompson moved from the station's 10pm newscast to report weather; Dagny Hultgreen was the entertainment anchor; and Suzanne Dunn was the traffic reporter on Sky 11 (now SkyFox), the station's helicopter.
The format was unsuccessful, and the show had frequent anchor turnover. Mora left for ABC and was replaced by Thompson and later Tony McEwing (who has anchored the earlier FOX11 Morning News since its 1993 launch). Hultgreen was replaced by Lonnie Lardner; Dunn was replaced by Will Kohlschreiber.
The show was retooled in March, 1995 when Steve Edwards was brought in as the anchor with Jillian Barberie reporting weather (swapping positions with Thompson, who took over her former post reporting weather on the station's 10pm newscast), and Dorothy Lucey handling the entertainment reports; Rod Bernsen took over the traffic reports from the helicopter, and McEwing reported headlines from the newsroom.
In 2001, Good Day L.A. was spun off into a nationally syndicated program as Good Day Live, an hour long version of the local show with the same presenters which was distributed by Twentieth Television and was launched on Fox's O&O group. Jillian Barberie was fired from the show and Dorothy Lucey left the syndicated version in 2004, yet continued to host the L.A. based version. They were replaced by Arthel Neville and Debbie Matenopoulos. Good Day Live was cancelled a year later.
Following the cancellation of Good Day Live, KTTV expanded Good Day L.A. to three hours. Also in 2005, Good Day L.A. added a Sunday edition of the show hosted by Robb Weller, Nischelle Turner, and Elizabeth Espinosa. (In July 2006, the GDLA branding was removed from the Sunday edition and the format was changed to a more straightforward newscast. Turner and Espinosa were reassigned to other shows, but Weller stayed on and co-anchored the Sunday morning show with Gina Silva until the Sunday morning news was later canceled.)
As of 2011, its line-up is Edwards, Lucey, Barberie, McEwing (who also serves as primary substitute host for Edwards), and Rick Dickert (traffic).
Clips of Good Day L.A. are frequently shown on the E! roundup series The Soup. Edwards has his own segment on the show with themed clips.
KTTV and KTLA are competitors for both their morning (4:30am-10am) and nighttime (10pm-11pm) newscasts.
Fox 11 Morning News, the station's early morning newscast, premiered along with Good Day L.A. in June 1993, and was originally anchored by Diana Koricke and Tony McEwing, with veteran KTTV reporter and past anchor Tony Valdez serving as an occasional fill-in anchor. Koricke left television news in June 1996 and was replaced on the broadcast by Jean Martirez, who is still with the station. The show originated as an hourlong newscast beginning at 6 a.m., but was later expanded to 90 minutes, with a 5:30 a.m. start. In 2004, an additional half hour was added, expanding the morning news to two hours beginning at 5 a.m.
On July 14, 2008, Fox 11 added a late morning newscast after Good Day L.A. The 10:00 a.m. newscast is 30 minutes long and is anchored by Tony McEwing, Jean Martirez, and Lisa Breckenridge. In December 2008, a 30-minute noon broadcast began, featuring McEwing, Martirez, Breckenridge, and former My13 weather anchor Maria Quiban. In April 2010, a 4:30 a.m. newscast was launched with Jean Martirez and Rick Dickert.
Critics of Good Day L.A. have praised the show for being "so wonderfully bonkers" [1] Good Day L.A. is in competition with KTLA's morning show plus the morning shows from ABC, CBS, and NBC.