Good Morning Arizona! in Payson

Good Morning Arizona! is a morning show broadcast from Channel 3 (KTVK) in Phoenix during the early morning hours. They have various segments that feature different activities, stores, people and things to do. Twice a year they travel around the state and feature different communities. April 1 (Tuesday) they stopped in Payson at Green Valley Park. Four of the stars of the show are Tara Hitchcock, Scott Pasmore, Dan Davis and Brad Perry. The featured activities in Payson were; Julia Randall Elementary School, Hashknife Pony Express, many fine artists, a car club, a day care center and farm machinery, not to mention music from the Payson High School band.

Scott Pasmore, left, and Tara Hitchcock have some time to play around before they are back on camera again. View photo »
Caught by surprise, Tara Hitchcock, right, has the expression to prove it. View photo »
100 feet in the air provides a different perspective of what is happening at Green Valley Park when Good Morning Arizona is in town filming their "Road Trip" segment for spring. Hilltop Crane Service provided the high ride. View photo »
Brad Perry attempts to amuse Amitee Hanewinckel before he goes on camera with the children from Julia Randall Elementary School. Perry is more than just a weather guy, especially during the Annual Road Trips conducted by Good Morning Arizona, a Phoenix morning show at KTVK. View photo »
John Dryer gets to ham it up with Tara Hitchcock between TV segments. Lucky guy. View photo »
Before going on camera again, Scott Pasmore, left, talks with James Rhodes, as Tara Hitchcock listens to someone give her background information about Rhodes. View photo »
Brad Perry gives and receives a high five from David Hanewinckel in between one of Perry's segments of the Good Morning Arizona Road Trip in Payson. View photo »
Dan Davis, left, another member of the Good Morning Arizona team checks out the good food from Main Street Grille. Jerry Cruz, from Main Street Grille, and Councilperson Su Connell, are still arranging and preparing the food. View photo »
Brad Perry helps the children from Julia Randall Elementary school cheer as they say the traditional greeting on the KTVK morning show; "Good Morning Arizona!". Perry is holding Shelby Rathjen as he marches up and down the sidewalk. View photo »
Xavier Hernandez wants to get his hands on that microphone, but Hitchcock has been there before and knows how to gently ease him away from that. Payson Kidcare is a community service of Payson First Assembly of God church. View photo »
Tara Hitchcock goes down the line of kids who attend Payson Kidcare and asks them their names. Pictured here are Jacob Miltimore, left, and Zackery Harris. The children also held up a banner that said "We love Good Morning Arizona!" View photo »
Perry holds another baby, Shelby Rathjen, as he talks with Cari Day and Tanya Alliare about the new construction about to begin at Julia Randall Elementary School. The boys in front hold up "before" and "after" posters of the changes that will take place at the school. The boys from left to right are; Tristan, Christopher, and Bailey Johnson. View photo »
Gibb Parra, left, a cameraman at KTVK, is a guinea pig for a food tasting. Tara Hitchcock shows the kids of Payson Kidcare what she thinks of the situation. View photo »
Tom Spiegelberg, left, licks an elk nugget as a taste test before presenting the keepsake to Tara Hitchcock. Spiegelberg finds nuggets from various animals and makes necklaces out of them. Of course they have been dipped in liquid polyurethane and sometimes painted different colors before strung into jewelry. View photo »