When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.
Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.
I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.
All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.
There's something magical about breakfast TV. I can't think of anything else I'd rather do.
People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.
I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.
All the 'Today show' viewer wants, I think, is a friendly face.
I absolutely love Piers Morgan and there's absolutely no point in watching 'Good Morning Britain' if he's not on it.
Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.
I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.
