However, there's been nothing but good on the horizon, especially for Gio Benitez, who was announced as one of the new anchors for Good Morning America Weekend on Thursday.
The anchor, 37, took to social media to celebrate another achievement for ABC News, that being its win at the GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend.
The network was awarded with the Outstanding TV Journalism – Long-Form prize for its special PRIDE | To Be Seen on its show Soul of a Nation, which was hosted by Cara Delevingne.
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Alongside a photograph of the trophy held by one of the recipients, Gio wrote: Congratulations to everyone who worked on our exceptional @abcnews special, 'PRIDE | To Be Seen.' Winner of the @glaad Award for Outstanding TV Journalism – Long Form!
It was a big weekend for Gio, who stepped into his role as the official anchor of the weekend morning show for the first time this Saturday.
While he has hosted segments for the show in the past, this is his first time as an official part of the line-up, alongside Whit Johnson and Janai Norman.
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GMA anchor George Stephanopolous interviewed Eva about her journey to the new hosting role, where she revealed how she'd grown up a nerdy kid, been inspired by working at a TV station while at college, and then worked her way to the top via local news channels.
The duo also bonded about their similar journeys as first generation immigrants going against the path their parents may have first desired for them.
While Eva received a tearful farewell from her co-hosts, Gio received quite the hero's welcome, being greeted with confetti and applause as he stepped into the studio on the air.
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His husband Tommy DiDario was also in the studio watching him accept his new responsibilities, and the two were so overcome by emotion that Tommy was invited to join them and he ran straight in to give his husband a big hug.
News of Eva, DeMarco and Gio's new roles was shared, according to Variety, to the members of the ABC News team by President Kim Godwin via an official memo on Thursday.
I know these programs – and our viewers at home – will be well-served by all of their collective talents, she stated, and also said: I am incredibly proud of the reporting Eva, DeMarco and Gio have brought to ABC News.
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— -- Good Morning America co-anchors, meteorologists, correspondents and contributors from the past 40 years reunited today in Times Square during the show's 40 for 40 livestream event to mark the show's 40th anniversary.
Robin Roberts led the reunion that started with Joan Lunden and David Hartman, co-anchors together in the 1980s, saying the traditional, Good morning, America, introduction, complete with their show's music and logo, before Roberts jokingly interrupted.
The co-anchors were then joined in GMA's Times Square studio by Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson -- who also served as co-anchors -- and Spencer Christian and Sam Champion, who each spent years on GMA as the show's meteorologists.
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Lunden recalled her first day in the anchor chair as a “baptism by fire” because of the early-morning call she got to jump on air when Hartman and his on-air partner at the time, Sandy Hill, had laryngitis.
“Each one of us has learned from the person that we have come and sat down next to, ” Lunden said. “He [David Hartman] was like having a professor that was there who was very generous.
Christian said it was Hartman's voice that provided him a level of comfort on the first day he ever appeared on GMA, in 1977.
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It was something about David’s voice that was so comforting and reassuring that right away my nervousness went away, and a star was born, ” Christian said with a laugh, and prompting laughs from everyone else.
Gibson was teased by his fellow former co-anchors for wearing a suit and tie on his first day in 1987 that was shot on location at Miami’s Fisher Island. Gibson remembered his very first days on GMA more for how nervous he was.
“I was scared to death, ” Gibson said. “I remember, you get the homework, you get the packets, and I was reading those [research] packets, every word, until about 1 o’clock in the morning.
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Sawyer didn’t recall nerves her first day but recalled more the difficult transition from her past career in print to working on-air.
It never occurred to me that being in the studio was going to be a decathlon, ” Sawyer joked in reference to the logistics of the set and the varied interviews. I couldn't find the cameras and I was going to the wrong interviews.
“I remember at the end of the show you just collapsed on the desk with your head down, ” recalled Gibson, her co-anchor at the time.
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When it came to their on-air partnerships, Lunden recalled Gibson telling her early on that they would be equal on-air partners and Gibson recalled having conversations with Sawyer deciding the two of them would not argue over interviews or assignments.
You have to have that level of feeling about the person you're working with because if the person next to you is not doing well, you're not doing well, Gibson said.
I remember seeing Diane Sawyer walk in ... and the set just got so quiet because Diane Sawyer was walking through the set, he said. I have all these incredible memories.
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In addition to the daily on-air team, several “GMA” correspondents and contributors joined the reunion, including former ABC News’ correspondents Geraldo Rivera and Bill Ritter, food contributor Sara Moulton, home improvement expert Ron Hazelton, entertainment correspondent Rona Barrett and Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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