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GMA Will Recruit Talk Show Host All Stars as Robin Roberts Prepares for Medical Leave.
We found out earlier this year that ABC’S Robin Roberts was diagnosed with MD – a rare blood and bone marrow disease. She will be receiving a bone marrow transplant and thus taking a leave from Good Morning America.
Although there is truly no good time for her to leave, now is especially hard as Good Morning America has recently been going head to head with Matt Lauer’s “Today Show”. And for the first itme in 17 years have been winning some of the ratings battles.
The producers at ABC are no dummies, they have enlisted a slew of ‘All Star’ talk show veterans to help out until she returns.
Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, and Katie Couric are all lined up to step in for Roberts. Robin thinks she will be leaving at the end of August or the beginning of September….and she says she is somewhat scared,
“It’s fascinating-slash-scary how to prepare yourself for something like this, I do go through moments of fatigue.”
Although she feels fatigue, beating Mat Lauer’s “Today” has put some fire in her belly.
“The run that we’ve had has truly energized me, It’s pretty good medicine, I gotta say, to be taking!”
HOW WELL IS GMA DOING?
This past Thursday was the first time in 17 years that GMA has actually won first place among total views, beating out “Today” with 4.6 million viewers to their 4.25.
Ben Sherwood, ABC News President, took advantage of the 2012 London Olympics games starting up tonight, and put the victory in terms of the games He said,
“For 852 straight (weekly) races, the ‘Today’ show won the gold medal, going back to 1995,” he said. Then, several weeks ago, “GMA” snapped the “Today” winning streak, “and stood there alone for the first time in 16 years to get its own gold medal.”
“And after 879 weeks running behind in younger viewers, 25-to-54, GMA is “standing there at the gold-medal podium, unbelievably in an actual statistical tie with the previous champs.”
Sherwood doesn’t want to lose momentum now so I’m sure not only will they be leveraging the all-stars but I’m sure Sherwood will be sparing no expense in funding segments that will keep viewers tuned in for weeks to come We wish Robin Roberts the best.
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Robin Roberts Reveals She has MDS – Myelodyplastic Syndrome, A Rare Blood & Bone Marrow Disease
The ever cheerful Robin Roberts reported today that she was battling a rare blood disorder. In a very dramatic, heartfelt newscast today she told the world that she was battling “MDS – myelodyplastic syndrome”.
The 51 year old reporter has beat breast cancer before and she told her fans and millions of viewers that she would beat this as well,
“Bottom line: I am going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it to me.”
The illness affects bone marrow and she will be needing a transplant. It’s very difficult to find a match especially for black women so she was extremely fortunate that her sister was a perfect match….and that her sister was willing to do it She made the announcement today because she will start drug treatments necessary before the bone marrow transplant operation.
She explained,
“I didn’t want you to be concerned if you see a bandage tomorrow,”
“I will be given drugs … for a period of time … to prepare me for a bone marrow transplant.”
Roberts said that she has known about the illness for some time but has continued to work and will continue to work. Ben Sherwood the president of the network has Robins’ back 100%. He referred to her as captain of their team and said that they would stand
“arm in arm with her as she fights this new battle”
Robin Roberts is one on air personality that I, believe it or not, have one negative thing to say about. She’s always professional, always knowledgeable about her subject matter and remains incredibly humble. She will beat this, and live to share her story because that’s her calling.
Take nothing for granted people…..nothing. Here is Robin making the announcement this morning:
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