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...Bill Lord, the former executive producer of "Nightline" and now the executive producer of ABC's "World News Tonight," thinks "Nightline's" style is central to its success. "Ted doesn't want to be taken in by the guest's personality. He wants to approach it as the audience does," he says. "He wants all guests to establish their criminals with the public...
...when Grace Anne Koppel wanted to return to school. Koppel offered his resignation to ABC so that he could stay at home. While he and ABC eventually arrived at an alternative plan--he remained on half-pay and broadcast radio commentaries from home--Koppel nonetheless accepted reduced exposure. "I don't know anyone who would have done that," Small says...
...eight or nine," he says. "In my most formative years. I listened to the likes of Edward R. Murrow." The British-born Koppel came to the U.S. in 1953, spent his undergraduate years at Syracuse University and received a Masters in journalism from Stanford. In 1963, he joined ABC and reported from Vietnam--he learned Vietnamese before he left--and then headed the network's Hong Kong bureau. In 1977, he became the anchor of the ABC "Saturday Night Evening News...
...Koppel gives ABC class and respect," Shales adds. "He's the fair-haired boy there--if an aging and soon-to-be-gray haired...