# Do you have a favorite TV morning show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323 "2020-02-21T20:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/1 "2020-02-21T20:25:48Z")
I do, WGN Morning News, and it’s for things like a bit in which Mr Rogers visits a marijuana dispensary: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OuBYruezpFo/maxresdefault.jpg "WGN Morning News’ ‘Mr. Rogers’ visits Chicago marijuana dispensary") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuBYruezpFo) An occasional bit is Noticias de mi Corazon, starring the station’s Hispanic reporters and anchors in a telenovella: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dc9JBaCvqyE/maxresdefault.jpg "WGN anchor reveals pregnancy in new telenovela 'Noticias de mi Corazon'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc9JBaCvqyE) Then there was a modeling dominatrix who was a guest on What’s My Line: https://www.youtube.com/embed/o2KlHEIAM48?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLUOmkRDAzMNH-CRa2DFqbuHmsZ7U-CTkX&start=0 They also tell news, from a wiseass point of view when appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/2 "2020-02-21T20:34:21Z")
The WGN Morning News is definitely on the cheeky side, and it gets sillier as the morning goes on, particulary in the last hour (9-10am). If you watch their first hour or two (4am-6am), they play it pretty straight – or, at least, straigher than they play it later in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/3 "2020-02-21T21:42:18Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Then there was a \*\*\*modeling \*\*\*dominatrix who was a guest on What’s My Line: > > [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2KlHEIAM48&list=PLUOmkRDAzMNH-CRa2DFqbuHmsZ7U-CTkX&index=3&t=0s](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2KlHEIAM48&list=PLUOmkRDAzMNH-CRa2DFqbuHmsZ7U-CTkX&index=3&t=0s) That should be YODELING, fercryinoutloud. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/4 "2020-02-21T22:41:04Z")
heh i remember watcing donahue as a kid on wgn right after the 4 hours of cartoons in the early 80s … its how i learned what a lesbian was ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/5 "2020-02-21T22:42:22Z")
heh i remember watcing donahue as a kid on wgn right after the 4 hours of cartoons in the early 80s … its how i learned what a lesbian was ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/6 "2020-02-21T23:28:15Z")
If Mr.Wrekker’s at home he goes straight to the local ABC affiliate in the kitchen while he eats breakfast. If I’m alone I avoid turning the TV on as long as I can. Then I go straight to TCM. The cable news channels just ruin my outlook on life. So I avoid them. WGN sounds fun. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/7 "2020-02-21T23:51:15Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > WGN sounds fun. One used to be able to watch WGN outside of Chicago; it was one of the “superstations” in the 1970s and 1980s – local TV stations which also put their programming feeds on satellite and made them available to cable companies nationwide. However, the “satellite version” of WGN (now called WGN America) started to diverge from the Chicago version, as WGN started airing more programming for which they didn’t have satellite/cable rights. As of, I think, 2014, WGN America shares no programming with WGN; I think that the morning news show was the last thing that got removed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/8 "2020-02-22T19:48:07Z")
I watch GMA, unless they get wound up in insufferable topics, like “The Bachelor.” _puke_ Then I turn on MeTV, for old reruns. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/9 "2020-02-22T20:32:10Z")
I’m embarrassed to admit that I watch _Let’s Make A Deal_ and _Price is Right_ almost every morning. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/10 "2020-02-23T01:29:28Z")
Well, I had a favorite, but Dave Garroway died nearly 40 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/11 "2020-02-24T16:05:32Z")
While I’m getting ready for work, I watch (listen) to either The Today Show or Good Morning America. I also record The Jason Show (Jason Mathison) which comes on at some point after I’ve left for work and watch it while I eat dinner. It’s out of Minneapolis/St. Paul. I love it because it’s just fun entertainment (NO politics!) and is Minnesota based. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/12 "2020-02-24T16:18:46Z")
Morning Express with Robin Meade on HLN. Nice mix of stories whilst I grid my loins for the day’s battles. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-tv-morning-show/848323/13 "2020-02-24T16:26:28Z")
I used to watch The Today Show back when Katie Couric, Al Roker, and Matt Lauer were there. It wasn’t anything brilliant but I usually caught the news briefs with Ann Curry and watched a little. Once Merideth Viera and Kathie Lee came on board the show got so banal I couldn’t take it any more.