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Kelly Ripa is in need of another co-host.
Live With Kelly And Michael is losing
Michael Strahan, who is going to be full time on ABCs
Good Morning America starting in September, as that show looks to shore up ratings against NBC Newss revitalized
Today show.
The move ends Strahans four-year run as host of the daytime talker; since 2014 Strahan has joined the
GMA team twice a week while co-hosting
Live, which plans to kick off the search for a new co-host when the new season starts in the fall. In 2012, Strahan was nabbed to co-host
Live after a 10-month search for a replacement for Regis Philbin. Strahan was named Philbins replacement after Ripa and producers kicked the tires on 59 guest co-hosts, though not all were serious contenders. Anderson Cooper, for instance, was happily employed at CNN, where
hes now town-hall-ing the heck out of the 2016 presidential election cycle, though other names may show up again as reporters crafting Who Will Be Kelly Ripas New Live Co-Host lists hear from production sources, agents and managers.
GMA wisely is waiting until after
Today takes center stage in the daypart during NBCs Rio Summer Games, during which its expected to unveil more changes as EP
Noah Oppenheim continues to evolve that franchise.
This mornings news comes just over four years to the day since Strahan announced, on
Live with Kelly and Michael, that he was taking the
GMA contributor gig, while assuring Ripa and fans that his
Live gig was his top priority: This is what I do
This is me. This is my home. No matter what. I go nowhere. This is my love. You are my love. This is my job. So dont worry, anybody, Im not going anywhere.
But, a couple weeks ago,
Today broke
GMAs 108-week streak as No. 1 in overall audience. The day NBC News could boast that
Today had won the weekly ratings race in both total viewers and the news demo, for the first since since 2012, it confirmed
Willie Geists
move to Sunday Today would start this past Sunday. Season to date,
GMA is still the No. 1 morning program, taking the top spot at this point of the season for the fourth consecutive year.
This season
Live With Kelly And Michael is the No. 1 entertainment daytime talk show in households (2.9 rating) and among women 25-54 (1.4 rating-tie). Overall, the show is second among syndicated talkers, behind only perennial No. 1
Dr. Phil this season.
Live recently was renewed through 2020.
Strahan will remain a co-host of NFL On Fox; he began his career as TV on-air talent with Fox Sports, upon his retirement in 2008 from the NFL, where he played for 15 years for the New York Giants.