BELL: GOODBY TO ‘GOOD MORNING’
Steve Bell, co-anchor of the news segments of ABC’s “Good Morning America” since the program’s premiere in 1975, told viewers Friday that he’s leaving at the end of this year to become an anchorman in Philadelphia.
Bell, 51, with ABC News since 1967 and a correspondent in Vietnam, Hong Kong and at the White House before joining “Good Morning America,” is moving to KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
His departure had been expected. He had told friends he was wearying of the pre-dawn wake-ups for both “Good Morning America” and the earlier “World News Morning.”
The Washington-based anchorman, in making public his impending departure during Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s morning show, said he’ll miss his colleagues “but I will not miss . . . getting up with the dawn patrol.”
His successor has not yet been chosen.
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