{"id":118569,"date":"2025-11-05T03:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118569\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:13:08","slug":"joan-lunden-offers-insight-into-spirit-which-guided-gmas-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118569\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Lunden offers insight into spirit which guided &#8216;GMA&#8217;s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/632168_8659490_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Joan Lunden shares secret to GMAs success\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Joan Lunden shares secret to &#8216;GMA&#8217;s success<\/p>\n<p>Joan Lunden has opened up about what made Good Morning America such a beloved part of viewers&#8217; lives, and why its spirit of warmth continues to define the show decades later.<\/p>\n<p>In a new chat with PEOPLE Magazine, the veteran broadcaster reflected on GMA&#8217;s enduring appeal and how its approach set it apart from other programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really a kind of alternative program in a way,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>For those unversed, Lunden anchored the morning show alongside David Hartman and later Charlie Gibson until 1997, spending nearly two decades at the GMA desk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of a desk with a blue background, it was a home, and it had browns and oranges and golds, and our logo was a rising sun,\u201d Lunden shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had Marvin Hamlisch music to ease you into the day, and the whole sensibility was, \u2018From our home to yours.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cWe even called all the reporters on the show family members. That\u2019s how I started \u2014 I was a GMA family member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it made us all realize that we were part of something much bigger than us,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo:\u00a0Joan Lunden shares secret to &#8216;GMA&#8217;s success Joan Lunden has opened up about what made Good Morning America&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-118569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}