BREAKING: Josh Elliott Leaving ABC News For NBC Sports, Amy Robach Promoted To ‘Good Morning America’ News Anchor

BREAKING: After an intense negotiation with ABC News, Good Morning America co-host Josh Elliott is leaving the network for NBC Sports. Elliott, who had been making about $1.2 million salary at GMA, turned down an offer to stay with the show for $4-$5 million.  After his fellow anchor Lara Spencer nailed down a lucrative multiyear contract Thursday, Elliott raised his ask to over $8 million $10 million a year. Elliott is the second member of the ensemble team that put GMA in first place in the morning show ratings race, and to depart for an NBCUniversal property. In December, NBC-U successfully poached longtime GMA weatherman Sam Champion who is now a big wig at their Weather Channel. With Elliott, NBC is getting a strong sports guy –a next generation Bob Costas– who previously worked at ESPN. Per the terms of Elliott’s exit, he cannot appear on NBC’s The Today Show for six months according to people familiar with the situation.
These negotiations have been going on for a longtime. As a matter of coincidence, four out of the five players on GMA had their contract renewals come up at approximately same time. But as is ABC News’ practice under Ben Sherwood, former ABC news executive and newly titled co-chairman of Disney Media Networks and president, Disney/ABC Television Group Ben Sherwood, the network always had a game plan in place for moving on. ABC News is always ahead of the game with these types of transitions: The same day Champion announced he was leaving, the network ... Read More »

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