It's Official: GMA Breaks 'Today Show's 852-Week Ratings Streak!

With final ratings for last week being reported today, NBC's The Today show's 852-week winning streak is officially over. ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA earned an average of 5.168 million viewers, a 31,000 lead over Today's 5.137. CBS' revamped This Morning was a distant third with less than half the audience, 2.5 million.

The ABC News'  morning program is anchored by Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. Josh Elliott is News Anchor, Lara Spencer is Lifestyle Anchor and Sam Champion is Weather Anchor. Now in its 36th year, "GMA" is watched by millions of people who wake up to the show's award-winning combination of breaking news, hard-hitting interviews, exclusive investigations, cutting-edge medical information and financial reporting. "GMA" draws upon ABC's team of correspondents, producers and off-air reporters stationed around the globe. The show provides in-depth, useful information on a wide variety of topics, including the economy, politics, health & medicine, personal finance, the workplace, education, the environment and entertainment. The program also continues to aggressively cover developments in the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Good Morning America" made television history as the first morning program to broadcast live from a moving train as part of ABC's ambitious "50 States in 50 Days" programming during the 2008 presidential election. It was also the first television program to broadcast live from the Centers for Disease Control's command center tracking the H1N1 "swine flu" virus. Other broadcast firsts include "GMA" at the Pentagon, the FBI's training facility and new state-of-the-art crime lab in Quantico, VA, and inside Scotland's famed Balmoral Castle. Additionally, "GMA" has brought morning television viewers live and exclusive reports from North Korea, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.

In addition to Roberts, Stephanopoulos, Elliott, Spencer and Champion, the "GMA" family includes: Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser, Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross, ABC News Legal Analyst Dan Abrams, Senior National Correspondent Claire Shipman, Workplace Contributor Tory Johnson, Technology Contributor Becky Worley, "GMA" Contributors Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Cameron Mathison, and Family Contributor Lee Woodruff. "Good Morning America" regularly features family advice and guidance from Parenting Contributor Ann Pleshette Murphy; personal investment and financial reports by Mellody Hobson; cooking segments with some of the nation's top chefs, including Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali; as well as investigative reports on the latest consumer products information from Consumer Correspondent Elisabeth Leamy.

Photo credit: Fred Lee/ABC

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