Katie Couric Goes to GMA as Guest Host

People are bound to do a double take when they wake up and see Katie Couric staring back at them from their early morning talk show. It might take them a minute to realize they’re not watching the Today show. Even though that’s where they had been used to seeing her for years, this time she will be on Good Morning America instead as a guest host.

For 15 years, Couric was a host on the Today show on NBC, finally leaving in 2006. She hosted the CBS Evening News for a little while, and now she has moved over to ABC. It seems every major network wants Couric on their team.

Although previously the Today show had always been the early morning ratings winner, recently Good Morning America has been giving them a run for their money. Perhaps bringing Couric in as a guest host will be just what it takes to close the gap.

Katie Couric will co-host Good Morning America while Robin Roberts, one of the regular hosts, is on vacation. Couric will spend the week-long stint co-hosting with GMA regular George Stephanopoulos. Surely the return of Couric to daytime and the pairing with Stephanopoulos will make a lot of people curious enough to tune in for at least that week. Perhaps they will like what they see so much that they decide to stick with GMA for their daily morning fare.

At any rate, it will be fun to see Katie Couric back at her early morning hosting duties again after so long away. She had become a staple in many of our lives, and this will surely be a pleasant walk down memory lane for a lot of us.