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...junkies and journalists, the ABC News folks know which way the wind is blowing. They aren't naive, just depressed. "I believe in the capitalist system," says Sam Donaldson, whose future as the host of This Week is up in the air after the retirement announcement of his co-anchor, Cokie Roberts. (According to press reports, ABC is grooming a replacement team of Claire Shipman and George Stephanopoulos.) "We are owned by a company that wants to make money, and I believe that the people who run these companies have to try to do that." But Donaldson thinks subbing Late...
...people it might affect, although not necessarily adversely, is ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings. If Koppel departs, Jennings, as one of ABC's last superpower anchors, could have serious leverage when his contract expires this summer. Industry estimates place his salary at about $10 million a year. ABC could not afford to lose both him and Koppel. In his first statement since being cuckolded by his entertainment-division bosses, ABC News president David Westin declared, "We have every hope, expectation and wish that Peter Jennings will be the principal anchor at ABC for years to come...
Past winners of the prestigious award have included CNN founder Ted Turner, CBS anchor Dan Rather, and 20/20 anchor Barbara Walters...
DAVID LETTERMAN has often had high praise for one of his late-night rivals, ABC's Nightline anchor TED KOPPEL. But, hey, Dave, what's all this about a possible move to ABC, presumably to take Koppel's long-held time slot? When reports leaked out that ABC was negotiating with Letterman, whose CBS contract expires in six months, disgruntled ABC News staffers (are there any other kind?) hit the roof. Nightline's ratings have been sagging, and ABC is under pressure from corporate parent Disney to boost its profits. But top news execs were miffed that they hadn...
...CLINTON Ex-Prez would have been convicted, says final report. And all this time, America has been wasting its attention on the war on terrorism DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Historian quits Pulitzer jury because of plagiarism problems. It turns out she also borrowed that accent from the Kennedys TED KOPPEL Anchor is peeved when his network reveals it wants Letterman. Koppel consoles himself by saying he always wanted to work at PBS anyway...