The changing face of ABC’s Good Morning America has created a lot of buzz on the blogosphere over the past few weeks, but in real time the actual transition hasn’t done much to improve GMA’s second place standing behind American breakfast show favorite, NBC’s The TODAY Show.

About 4.7 million viewers tuned in Monday morning as George Stephanopoulos took over for longtime anchor Diane Sawyer on GMA. The show trailed the morning leader, TODAY, which averaged more than 5.9 million on Monday.