{"id":129054,"date":"2024-05-06T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/kim-godwin-exits-abc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T01:02:20","slug":"kim-godwin-exits-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/06\/kim-godwin-exits-abc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Godwin Exits ABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/kim-godwin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kim-godwin\" data-tag=\"kim-godwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Godwin<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/abc-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc-news\" data-tag=\"abc-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> president who was the primary Black girl to run a broadcast community information operation, is leaving the Disney unit amid rising concern about the best way she was managing the house of reveals like \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and \u201cWorld News Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGodwin instructed staffers in a memo Sunday that she deliberate to \u201cretire from broadcast journalism.\u201d Her command had come below rising scrutiny <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/abc-news-stations-under-debra-oconnell-1235911174\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since a restructuring of ABC News and Disney\u2019s ABC stations <\/a>had her reporting on to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/debra-oconnell-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_debra-oconnell-2\" data-tag=\"debra-oconnell-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debra OConnell<\/a>, a Disney enterprise veteran who&#8217;s seen as a valued operator on the firm. OConnell will lead ABC News for the foreseeable future, she instructed staff Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA Disney spokesperson declined to make executives out there for added remark or to reply to a question about what adjustments Godwin\u2019s exit would possibly imply for the chief\u2019s quick direct experiences or the administration of particular person ABC News packages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAfter matriculating through j-school at my beloved Florida A&amp;M University, I\u00a0have been fortunate and blessed\u00a0enough to have done almost every job there is in this business, including\u00a0anchor, investigative reporter, news director, field producer, network\/special events executive producer and more before moving on to the executive ranks,:\u201d Godwin stated in a be aware on Sunday. \u201cAnyone who\u2019s passionate about what we do knows there\u2019s no other business like it, so this was not an easy or quick decision. But after considerable reflection, I\u2019m certain it\u2019s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what\u2019s most important for me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile Godwin sought to enhance the working environment at ABC News, the place anchors are identified to feud with each other and jockey for positions in addition to interviews, and launched a brand new studio dedicated to packages for Disney\u2019s streaming retailers like Hulu, she turned accused of remaining too distant from the employees and the unit\u2019s many properties, which embrace daytime staples corresponding to \u201cThe View\u201d and \u201cThe Tamron Hall Show\u201d along with the evening- and morning-news mainstays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn latest months, \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d arguably the flagship present of the information division, has seen its standing amongst viewers between 25 and 54 \u2014 the demographic most coveted by advertisers \u2014 shrink noticeably. For the 5 days beginning April 22, for instance, \u201cGMA\u201d captured a median of 497,000 viewers in that age vary \u2014 simply 49,000 forward of \u201cCBS Mornings,\u201d historically the perennial third-place entrant in broadcast TV\u2019s morning wars. NBC\u2019s \u201cToday,\u201d in the meantime, captured a median of 659,.000. \u201cGMA\u201d stays, nevertheless, the nation\u2019s most-watched broadcast morning-news present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMore to come back\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Kim Godwin, the ABC News president who was the primary Black girl to run a broadcast community information operation, is leaving the Disney unit amid rising concern about the best way she was managing the house of reveals like \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and \u201cWorld News Tonight.\u201d Godwin instructed staffers in a memo Sunday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2695,2694,2693,142,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-129054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-exits","10":"tag-godwin","11":"tag-kim","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}