Today Prod. Moving To GMA Weekend

By Brian 

First on TVNewser: Weekend Today producer Eric Ortner is leaving Rockefeller Center for the Times Square studios of Good Morning America. Ortner is becoming a senior producer for the weekend edition of GMA, reporting to EP John Green.

Ortner, 30, has worked for NBC since he was in high school. His last day at NBC is Saturday, and he starts at ABC next week…

> ABC premiered the weekend edition of GMA in Sept. 2004; the network is said to be happy with its growth thus far…

> Poynter: On Sept. 11, 2001, Ortner left his camera crew behind and spent the first 48 hours helping the injured…

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