'Good Morning America' to broadcast from Mission Inn

Sam Champion, the weather reporter for ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," will broadcast live Friday from Riverside's Mission Inn from 4 to 6 a.m.
The broadcast will be shown taped in the Pacific time zone starting at 7 a.m.
The show will celebrate the Inn's 15th annual Festival of Lights and will be part of the weeklong series "Good Morning America Lights Up the Holidays."
The show broadcasts to about 7.5 million viewers every day. The anchors in New York will break away occasionally throughout the two hours to come back to Riverside for Champion's weather updates and stories on the city, including a live lighting of the festival lights.
Mission Inn Avenue, between Main and Orange streets, will be closed off during the pre-dawn broadcast hours.
Free regular coffee will be given out by the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf from 3:30 to 6 a.m., and the city will provide cinnamon rolls and reusable "green bags" to the first 200 to arrive.
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