The recently reunited “Good Day New York” team of Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto scored an unusual beatdown on the “Today” show last month — defeating the venerable NBC morning show in New York among adult viewers.
Kelly, who had co-anchored “GDNY” with Scotto for four years, left last June to co-anchor Ch. 5’s 10 p.m. newscast — but returned to the morning-show couch last month in a surprise move.
The morning team had been a remarkably successful pairing for the station, which has, in recent years, been struggling to find the right chemistry in the a.m.
Ratings released yesterday show “GDNY” (7-9 a.m./Ch. 5) beating “Today” (Ch. 4) by 10 percent in adults 25-to-54, and also scoring big gains over “Today” among women viewers for the first time in years.
The news for “Today” wasn’t much better on the national level. Last week, top-rated “Good Morning America” averaged more than 6 million viewers — a million more than “Today” — for its most-watched week in 19 years.