Tim Tebow Joins GOOD MORNING AMERICA Team as Contributor

ESPN and SEC Network Analyst Tim Tebow is joining "Good Morning America" as a contributor beginning Monday, September 15, ABC News announced today. The first-ever college sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy will help launch GMA's "Motivate Me Monday" series, featuring individuals and their amazing stories of triumph. Tebow will appear in studio and live on location in towns across America with a wide-range of reports that motivate and inspire.

Emmy Award-winning "Good Morning America" is a two-hour, live program anchored by Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, and Lara Spencer. Amy Robach is the news anchor and Ginger Zee is chief meteorologist. Tom Cibrowski is the senior executive producer. The morning news program airs MONDAY-FRIDAY (7:00-9:00 a.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

ABC News' popular morning program, "Good Morning America," is anchored by Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. Amy Robach is the News Anchor, Lara Spencer is Co- Anchor and Ginger Zee is the Meteorologist.

Now in its 38th year, "Good Morning America" is watched by millions of people who wake up to the show's award-winning combination of breaking news, hard-hitting interviews, exclusive investigations, cutting-edge medical information, and financial reporting. The week of April 9, 2012 "Good Morning America" was the #1 morning newscast for the first time in 16 years, snapping NBC's historic 852-week winning streak.

Each and every morning "Good Morning America" puts into clear focus the national and international stories that drive the day's news to help give the ABC audience a better understanding of the world. The program provides in-depth, useful information on a wide variety of topics, including the economy, politics, health and medicine, personal finance, the workplace, education, the environment and entertainment.

In July 2012 "Good Morning America" expanded to mid-day with the launch of "Good Afternoon America" anchored by Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer. The one-hour broadcast aired for nine weeks at 2:00 p.m. ET.

GoodMorningAmerica.com on Yahoo! launched in October 2011 as part of ABC News' powerful online news and information alliance with Yahoo! It is the #1 morning newscast website and beats MSNBC's Today by millions of users each month.

"Good Morning America" has been honored with numerous awards, including its sixth consecutive Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Morning Program. It has won the award three out of five years since the category was created.

The program premiered on November 3, 1975 with co-anchors David Hartman and Nancy Dussault. Over the years the broadcast's anchors have included Sandy Hill, Joan Lunden, Lisa McRee, Kevin Newman, Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer. In 2005, Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts debuted as the first ever female co-anchor team in network morning television.

"Good Morning America" made television history as the first morning program to broadcast live from a moving train as part of ABC's ambitious "50 States in 50 Days" programming during the 2008 presidential election. "Good Morning America" was also the first television program to broadcast live from the Centers for Disease Control's command center tracking the H1N1 "swine flu" virus. Other broadcast firsts include live reports from the Pentagon, the FBI's training facility and new state-of-the-art crime lab in Quantico, VA, and Scotland's famed Balmoral Castle. Additionally, "Good Morning America" has brought morning television viewers live and exclusive reports from Yemen, the famine zone in Africa, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.

In addition to Roberts, Stephanopoulos, Robach, Spencer, and Zee, the "Good Morning America" family includes: Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser, Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross, ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams, Workplace Contributor Tory Johnson, Technology Contributor Becky Worley, and Contributor Cameron Mathison.

Tom Cibrowski is the senior executive producer of ABC's "Good Morning America." The Emmy Award-winning morning news program airs live Monday through Friday from 7:00-9:00 a.m. ET on the ABC Television Network.

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