James Goldston, welcome to the morning show booking wars.

On his first day as EP of “Good Morning America” the show got scooped by cross-town rival NBC News. Here’s how it all went down.

ABC’s Andrea Canning got an interview with troubled actor Charlie Sheen at his LA home on Saturday. Canning paved the way for an interview by exchanging texts with Sheen last week about what led to the shut-down of his hit CBS show “Two and a Half Men.” And not long after crews packed up their gear, ABC began promoting the interview as part of a Tuesday night “20/20″ special with excerpts airing today and tomorrow on GMA.

But by that time, NBC News correspondent Jeff Rossen was on his way to Los Angeles with hopes of getting an interview with the CBS star. The Sheen folks agreed to an interview Sunday morning and by Sunday afternoon, Rossen was at his front door. The NBC News PR department went into high gear calling their sit-down Sheen’s “first television interview since his contentious public comments against CBS and “Two and a Half Men” co-creator Chuck Lorre.” Which isn’t accurate since ABC’s interview was 24 hours before of NBC’s.

Anyway, we wondered if this is a story of two highly competitive, rival network correspondents. It’s not so much.

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CBS’s loss is ABC’s gain.

You won’t see Charlie Sheen in a new episode of “Two and a Half Men” this week — or maybe ever.  But you will see him on “20/20″ Tuesday night.

ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning, who’d been texting the star in recent days about the personal and very public drama which lead to his hit CBS show being shut down last week, got an interview with Sheen which will be a part of a one hour “20/20″ to air Tuesday at 10pmET. And ABC will get the most of the interview airing excerpts on Monday and Tuesday’s “Good Morning America.”

ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning welcomed daughter Charlotte Brewster Bancroft to the family yesterday morning along with her husband USMC Major Tony Bancroft. A spokesperson tells us: “Charlotte was born at 7:21 am, May 19th (watching ‘Good Morning America’).” George Stephanopoulos and company congratulated Canning on “GMA” this morning:

TVNewser dropped by ABC News investigative correspondent Brian Ross‘ book party last night at ABC’s Times Square studios. “The Madoff Chronicles” hit store shelves this week and many of Ross’ colleagues were on hand to congratulate him last night.

ABC “World News” anchors, present and future, were there. Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer along with her husband Mike Nichols stopped by to offer their congratulations.

ABC News President David Westin described Ross as “The premier investigative reporter working today,” and said, “I think it’s also a bigger occasion to celebrate the work, in general, that you do with all of your colleagues. We at ABC news couldn’t be prouder of the work that you do.”

Ross also addressed the crowd and thanked Westin and everyone who helped him along the way including senior investigative producer Rhonda Schwartz and the rest of her team. He also added, “Finally, we have to thank Bernie and Ruth.”

GMA’s Chris Cuomo told TVNewser the turnout was a testament to how much everyone at ABC News respects Ross. Another GMAer, Sam Champion also attended along with GMA’s Senior EP Jim Murphy, EP Tom Cibrowski, and “Weekend GMA” anchor Bill Weir.

Also present, “Nightline” EP James Goldston, “Nightline” correspondent Vicki Mabrey, “World News” EP Jon Banner, correspondents Betsy Stark and Andrea Canning, and EP of ABC News magazines David Sloan.

We caught up with Ross and asked him about the current state and what the future holds for investigative journalism:

More photos from the evening after the jump:

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> Charlie Gibson is taking his show on the road again this month to see first-hand how the economic crisis is impacting Texas. “World News” will originate from Houston Monday and Tuesday. Gibson will also anchor coverage, from Houston, of Pres. Obama’s news conference Tuesday night.

> Congratulations to ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning and her fighter pilot husband, Cpt. Tony Bancroft, on the arrival of Anna Katherine yesterday.

> Paula Zahn marks one year as host of WNET’s “SundayArts on Thirteen” this weekend. Co-hosted by Philippe de Montebello, the show features arts and culture in New York City.

By the time the network evening newscasts went on the air Friday night, the democratic veepstakes had been narrowed to one name. But it would take another six hours to confirm Barack Obama had chosen Joe Biden to be his running mate; and CNN would be first with the news. John King confirmed the choice with two sources at 12:42amET, nearly five minutes before the AP.

FNC’s Shepard Smith reported the news with Fox News confirmation at 12:50amET.

David Shuster on MSNBC reported the news at 12:51amET sourcing the AP. NBC News confirmed the story at 1:17amET.

ABC News produced a special report confirming the news at 1:51amET. Andrea Canning anchored from ABC’s Washington Bureau with George Stephanopoulos and Jake Tapper joining in by phone.