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...sounded out about, and rejected, the network's most coveted news job, anchor of World News Tonight. The post, vacated by the death of Frank Reynolds, went to Peter Jennings. Although the job might have boosted his reported $700,000 salary, Koppel says he never wanted it. When ABC News President Roone Arledge telephoned to ask if he was interested, Koppel said, "Let me make it easier for you," and opted to stay on Nightline. His choice makes sense to TV journalists. Says CBS Morning News Anchor Diane Sawyer: "The format of Nightline has to be the envy...
Koppel started in journalism in 1962 as a radio correspondent and three years later switched to ABC-TV. By 1969 he had become the TV network's Hong Kong bureau chief, and he spent nearly two years reporting from Viet Nam. During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, as a diplomatic correspondent, he logged more than 250,000 air miles...
...house husband while his wife Grace Anne started law school. Says he: "I finally understood viscerally what women go through. People focus on those few months I took off and not on the years that my wife put her career on hold." Koppel worked part-time anchoring an ABC weekend newscast until Arledge became president of ABC News in 1977 and stripped...
...recent years, Koppel has seemed enough of a boy wonder to achieve just such impossibilities. He gets all but universal praise from journalists and from officials he has interviewed, for both skill and affability. "In all the years I've known Ted," says ABC Morning News Anchor Steve Bell, "I've yet to detect the flaw...
...Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright and 18 began to delay its broadcast time; in all, only 123 of ABC's 211 affiliates were carrying the show live...