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...shouted ABC-TV Announcer D Al Michaels over the uproar of an ecstatic Lake Placid crowd as the last seconds of the Soviet-American Olympic hockey semifinal game ticked away with the Americans leading...
...screened "agony of defeat" image of a ski jumper blowing it on ABC'S Wide World of Sports is an ironically accurate one: Americans have not landed a medal in the 70-or 90-meter event since a 1924 bronze. In Sarajevo, all eyes will be on Finland's renowned Matti Nykanen. That is just fine with Jeff Hastings, 24, and Mike Holland, 22, both legitimate medal contenders. They have flown on their 16-lb. skis since their childhood days in Norwich, Vt. It was not a desire for the limelight that has had them flying. "Defying gravity...
Last year ABC and Westinghouse sold their jointly owned Satellite News Channels for $25 million to Ted Turner's Cable News Network. Two additional firms, Showtime and The Movie Channel, merged last September in hopes of offering stiffer competition to Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, the industry leader...
Koppel, 43, has established himself as the thinking person's anchor on ABC's late-evening news show Nightline, which since March 1980 has built an average audience ranging from 5.1 million to 6.8 million viewers for discussions of issues as sensitive as child abuse and as complex as nuclear war games. Unlike the early-evening anchors, who help select stories but have little role in the coverage of most of them, Koppel controls almost every word that is spoken during Nightline. Most of each show is live interviews conducted by him. Often he must interweave five...
Four days later, Koppel took on another demanding showcase: his occasional ABC series Viewpoint, a live discussion of journalistic ethics with comment from the public. The show focused on the conflicting demands of freedom of information and national security. Among Koppel's strengths is that he almost never indulges in special pleading for his craft. Although he is somewhat conservative in a business that Viewpoint participants lambasted as liberal, Koppel was careful not to interject his views...