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Jonah swallowed more than the whale last week. He also gulped down Dynasty, Hotel, Good Morning America, Monday Night Football, the 1988 Winter Olympics and Ted Koppel. It was as simple as, well, ABC. In the first purchase ever of a major television network, small and scrappy Capital Cities Communications (1984 revenues: less than $1 billion) of New York City agreed to buy the American Broadcasting Cos., which is almost four times its size. The price, $3.5 billion for ABC's 29.1 million common shares, made the acquisition the largest outside the oil industry in American corporate history. The razzle...
...competing networks. Its evening newscast, despite a confusing succession of changes in format and anchors, moved steadily upward in audience numbers. And in 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, ABC launched network TV's first regularly scheduled late-night news program, the provocative, high- voltage Nightline, with Anchorman Ted Koppel...
These are the five: Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, Mike Wallace and George Will. For better or worse, a composite of them might form the public's impression of what a working journalist is like. But they are not necessarily the best and certainly not the only top interviewers on TV; those outsize, confident personalities are what create the impression...
...Koppel, on ABC's Nightline, is a cool, well-briefed and forceful interviewer. To induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...
There was so little else to do. The few U.S. aides who ventured out of their suites into restaurants were mobbed by news-starved reporters. In all, 920 correspondents and technicians were accredited at the talks. Yet, as ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel joked on air before the information lid was finally lifted, "it might be said that never have so many been sent to watch so few to learn so little...