{"id":527782,"date":"2022-12-16T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/abcs-gma-broke-deal-on-mike-hollins-interview\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T03:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:16:23","slug":"abcs-gma-broke-deal-on-mike-hollins-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/abcs-gma-broke-deal-on-mike-hollins-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"#ABC&#8217;s &#8216;GMA&#8217; broke deal on Mike Hollins interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af4e75571702\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af4e75571702\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/abcs-gma-broke-deal-on-mike-hollins-interview\/#%E2%80%9CABCs_%E2%80%98GMA_broke_deal_on_Mike_Hollins_interview%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;ABC&#8217;s &#8216;GMA&#8217; broke deal on Mike Hollins interview&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CABCs_%E2%80%98GMA_broke_deal_on_Mike_Hollins_interview%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;ABC&#8217;s &#8216;GMA&#8217; broke deal on Mike Hollins interview&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark felt that ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d violated an agreement with him.<\/p>\n<p>Separately from ESPN, Clark co-hosts the Pivot Podcast and was slated to have Mike Hollins \u2014 the hero in the University of Virginia mass shooting who initially escaped but returned to help others get off the bus where it was h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening \u2014 on the show. Thursday morning, Clark sent tweets accusing \u201cGood Morning America\u201d of breaking a deal they had to release their interviews on the same day. Later, he spoke to The Post about his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of events and eventually had a second call to talk about a phone call he had with the ABC morning show\u2019s leadership to clear the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought a show like @GMA would operate with integrity since they have fooled us into thinking thy [sic] care about things like truth,\u201d Clark tweeted Thursday morning. \u201cAfter what GMA producer @JennLeongABC did this morning I now know that\u2019s false. Schemed, stole, &amp; lied all to be first. Long as you win right? It\u2019s crazy that @JennLeongABC &amp; @GMA manipulated a young man &amp; mother that have been through so much. We are so grateful Mike Hollins &amp; his mother Brenda trusted us to sit down with him first. Still, @thepivot can stand on delivering every promise we made to their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1199334906.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark believed that ABC's 'Good Morning America' broke an agreement with him.\" class=\"wp-image-25030265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1199334906.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1199334906.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark believed that ABC\u2019s \u2018Good Morning America\u2019 broke an agreement with him.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reached by phone and asked what happened, Clark told The Post that Hollins is one of his son\u2019s best friends, dating back to middle school, and that their families are \u201cextremely close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d obviously been in contact since the shooting. I wasn\u2019t pursuing doing anything on this story, because I care more about him, not the story \u2014 not exploiting him or using him in any way,\u201d Clark said. \u201cHe reached out to me last week and said that if he was going to share the story for the first time he wanted to do it with someone that loved him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when we started planning to get everything done. We booked it, we\u2019d fly him in and shoot it on Tuesday. And then, shortly after, we were contacted by \u2018GMA\u2019 as well, for working with them to allow him to do that show too. \u2018GMA\u2019 was going to go to Louisiana and put it out next week, or if they could, to put it out on Friday, but once they realized we were paying for them to come up to New York, they could just piggyback off of that and do their interview as well.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for \u201cGood Morning America\u201d declined to comment; one person familiar with ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> said that the program had booked the interview with Hollins through his father in November.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-12.09.01-PM.png?w=960\" alt=\"Ryan Clark tweeted about the agreement he believed 'GMA' violated.\" class=\"wp-image-25030333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-12.09.01-PM.png 960w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-12.09.01-PM.png?w=480 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\"\/><figcaption>Ryan Clark tweeted about the agreement he believed \u2018GMA\u2019 violated.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ESPN and ABC are both owned by Disney. Clark felt that the ABC program broke an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an understanding,\u201d he said. \u201cWe both worked together on when we were going to release it, what we could do with the clips as far as promotions, so there could be some synergy between their show and our show as to how we released it. Also, a part of it was they didn\u2019t want us to release anything before they could, with them being a big-time morning show, and wanting something of an exclusive \u2014 which, obviously it was not, because we were not only doing it as well, we did it first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019d agreed to hold it till Friday because that\u2019s when we were releasing our show. We agreed it couldn\u2019t be called an exclusive, because obviously it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark said his team at Pivot realized it would be running on \u201cGood Morning America\u201d on Thursday when they saw a clip from Michael Strahan promoting it. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-5.24.40-PM.png?w=1024\" alt=\"UVA shooting survivor Mike Hollins on his 'Good Morning America' interview.\" class=\"wp-image-25030244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-5.24.40-PM.png?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-5.24.40-PM.png 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-15-at-5.24.40-PM.png?w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>UVA shooting survivor Mike Hollins on his \u2018Good Morning America\u2019 interview.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Good Morning America<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe did our best to continue to reach out. We spoke to Mike\u2019s mother, Brenda. She was not aware that it was happening,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI think the part for me that\u2019s disheartening is I only did this because I love him \u2014 I want him to be able to tell his story himself and truly allow people to know what type of hero the young man is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, his mother, who we booked on this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> so they could just enjoy his birthday, is having to apologize to us and having to say that she and Mike would never do anything like that to me. I think it\u2019s unfair for them to have to go to that sort of trauma, and to be trying to recover, and that they have to be worrying about apologizing to us for anything when they\u2019d done nothing wrong. For me, that\u2019s the part that hurts me the most, is I did this from a place of love. Our show was shot with love and care. We got an opportunity to advise him and share with him and love on him and now the kid has to deal with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark believes there were further agreements that were violated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to reach \u2018GMA\u2019 at first,\u201d he said. \u201cThey said that because Strahan had posted that this was happening there was no way to pull back on it and honor the agreement or the understanding that we had come to at first that it would be on Friday. So we were just looking for ways that we could be included to send them a clip that they could show, because it\u2019s Michael\u2019s birthday today. We gifted him a Mike Tyson-signed glove for his birthday on the show. We sent that clip to them. They were going to mention that he was going to be on our show as well. They couldn\u2019t use the word exclusive. And then all of those understandings were not done either. Those agreements were not honored by \u2018GMA.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Clark told The Post that he\u2019d had a long chat with \u201cGood Morning America\u201d brass and that things had been smoothed over.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\u201cFor me it was about getting an understanding of the things that took place and why they\u2019re handled the way they are,\u201d Clark said. \u201cWe spent about an hour on the phone with PR, the executive producer of the show to explain what happened in communication, why communication lapsed in some areas, why certain decisions were made and also their perceptions of certain conversations and details that were given.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the same exact thing. I told them how I felt, whether it was intent or not. They were extremely apologetic for what they phrased as some miscommunications and misunderstanding. I was extremely honest about how I felt about those things and the impact of the actions, not the intent, because I can\u2019t speak to those things. They were extremely apologetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clark said there is no lingering ill will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, what we decided was to move forward in the best way,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are no ill feelings between myself, The Pivot and \u2018Good Morning America.\u2019 [There were] even talks of trying to figure out how this relationship could be better in the future, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, this definitely wasn\u2019t a great experience, but I learned from it. From a business standpoint, them being willing to have the conversation with me and actually care enough to try to clarify was important \u2014 because I think it would have left a terrible taste in my mouth had they not. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did state to me that the perception of their show, the way they conduct business, is extremely important to them \u2014 and that\u2019s why they wanted to get me on the phone and hear me out. Those things were done. So now it\u2019s just about moving forward, and having Mike\u2019s story be told on our show tomorrow, because if I\u2019m gonna be honest, we did it a lot better than they did. I\u2019m excited about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Realrclark25\/status\/1603520943296585728\">Clark added in a tweet<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s been a crazy day for sure. Lots of conversations that should\u2019ve all been about @MikeHollins7. I spoke with\u00a0@GMA\u00a0&amp; they agree his story should be in the forefront. We clarified our misunderstandings &amp; acknowledged where we all could\u2019ve been better. Let\u2019s focus on Mike now!\u201d\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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