Following today’s announcement that Eva Pilgrim would be exiting as co-anchor of “GMA3” to join the CBS Media Ventures distributed “Inside Edition” as the newsmagazine’s new anchor in the fall, ABC News president Almin Karamehmedovic announced in an internal memo that co-anchor DeMarco Morgan would also be departing the news program and the network altogether.
“He has decided to begin a new journey and will be departing ABC News,” said Karamehmedovic in a memo to staffers.
The departure of Morgan and Pilgrim confirms earlier reports that the network was seeking a change in front of the camera for the struggling third hour of “Good Morning America,” with sources telling the New York Post, “‘GMA3’ won’t be there at the end of the summer,” though it’s likely they meant the anchors of the program rather than the program itself.
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In June, ABC unveiled a rebranded “GMA3,” formally dropping “What You Need to Know” from the title, and introduced new and familiar faces as part of a rotating list of co-anchors in the hopes of turning things around for the ratings-challenged program.
Simone Swink was named as the show’s new executive producer following the departure of Catherine McKenzie, who had been executive producer of the third hour since the current iteration’s debut in 2020, after McKenzie was among those let go earlier this year after a network purge that included the entire staff of “GMA3.” As a result, “Good Morning America” and “GMA3” now share staff in every department, with Swink also overseeing things across all other “GMA” branded programming.
Reportedly, the network’s immediate plan for the program includes utilizing members of the morning show’s “extended family” as rotating co-anchors, such as Rebecca Jarvis, Will Reeve, Gio Benitez, Sam Champion, Rachel Scott and James Longman, among others.
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During the week of June 23-27, 2025, ratings for “GMA3” topped its afternoon news competition – “NBC News Daily” (1.081 million) – among Total Viewers and in the key demos, while staying close to year ago levels across the board among Total Viewers (1.275 million vs. 1.291 million), Households (0.8 rating vs. 0.9 rating), Women 18-49 (0.15 rating vs. 0.16 rating) and Women 25-54 (0.22 rating vs. 0.25 rating).