Robin Roberts Plans to Return Full Time to ‘Good Morning America’

One year after leaving ABC’s “Good Morning America” for a bone-marrow transplant, and six months after returning part time, Robin Roberts is ready to return full time as the show’s co-host.

“The day after Labor Day I’ll be back to a five-day-a-week schedule,” she said at an event this week celebrating the United States Open tennis tournament, surprising the reporters in attendance.

“I’m looking forward to it,” she said, according to People magazine. “I want to get back to my full life.”

When asked about the change at “Good Morning America,” an ABC spokesman referred back to Ms. Roberts’s published remarks. Those comments came almost a year to the day when she signed off from the show, having been given a diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes, known as M.D.S., a rare and debilitating blood disorder; the bone-marrow transplant that saved her life took place in September.

While Ms. Roberts was on medical leave, two ABC anchors, Amy Robach and Elizabeth Vargas, were her main substitutes. They continued to fill in after Ms. Roberts returned to the morning program in February, because Ms. Roberts typically worked three or four days a week, adhering to her doctors’ advice about a gradual comeback.

All the while, “Good Morning America” has been riding high in the ratings; last week, the program celebrated a full year at No. 1, marking a generational change in morning television, a category that had been led by NBC’s “Today” show for 16 years.