Brad Ferguson writes in to say…
Thanks for the AM America clip. I just wanted to mention that it wasn't a local show, but Good Morning America's immediate predecessor on the ABC network. In New York (where I'm from), AM America replaced a terrific local show, AM New York, which was co-hosted by Sandy Baron and John Bartholomew Tucker.
I remember that Stephanie Edwards was considered a scandal to the jaybirds because she was living with her boyfriend at the time. ABC thought it made the show more hip, though. BTW, Edwards' co-host was a guy named Bill Beutel, who'd done the network news for ABC back in the early 1960s, but he'd become much better known as the co-anchor (with Roger Grimsby) of New York's Eyewitness News. Beutel played straight man to Grimsby's soused curmudgeon. AM America lasted less than a year.
Correction noted. And I don't know what Stephanie Edwards is doing these days but there was a time when you couldn't turn on local TV in Los Angeles without seeing her on something. If she wasn't hosting the show you were watching, she was doing commercials for the Lucky supermarket chain. She used to co-host (with Bob Eubanks) the annual Rose Parade for KTLA here but for reasons variously reported as friction with Eubanks and/or the station's desire to have someone younger, she stopped getting up so early on New Year's Day. She was usually pretty good at whatever she did and if she's not working somewhere now, it's either by choice or quite a surprise. Anyway, thanks, Brad.