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Delivering an address in person will be something of a new experience for today's Class Day Speaker. Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC's "Nightline." Five nights a week, Koppel communicates with several million viewers through television...
...these observers credit Koppel with the low's success. As they discuss Koppel's influence on "Nightline, they also address "Nightline's" influence on Koppel. Shales perceives a lebrity-like ego. But others point to Koppel's selflessness which, four years ago, led him to transfer his resignation to ABC News so that he could stay at home while his wife returned to school. These observers praise the program, even as they question some of its techniques and weaknesses. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago tribune who has been a guest on "Nightline," says that he felt "a little...
...Bonnie Franklin) said an equally weepy goodbye to family, friends and Indianapolis apartment as she left for a new job in London, bringing to a close nine seasons of One Day at a Time. But the most heartfelt lamentations may be taking place offscreen, in the executive suites at ABC, CBS and NBC. The demise of those two long-running shows is the latest evidence that hard times have hit one of TV's most durable genres, the half-hour situation comedy...
...still make up a considerable chunk of the network schedules-22 will be on next fall, compared with 24 last fall- the attrition rate has become alarming. Of the 20 sitcoms introduced by the three networks in the past year, only four-CBS' Kate & Allie and After MASH, ABC's Webster and NBC's Night Court-were renewed for next season. In the ratings for the 1983-84 season, the genre made its worst showing in 30 years: not a single sitcom that ran all season was ranked among the top ten. In 1974-75, by contrast...
Nearly every one of the hit comedies from the boom days of the 1970s is gone. ABC's Three's Company, which fell to 34th place in the ratings after years in the top ten, will mutate next fall into a new show, Three's a Crowd, in which Star John Ritter acquires a new girlfriend with a cantankerous father. Only The Jeffersons (ten seasons on the air) and Alice (eight seasons) remain, and they seem to be running on sheer inertia...