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Last year Koppel was 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...
...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...
After a dozen years of dedicated careerism, Koppel astonished colleagues in 1976 by giving up his coveted beat and taking almost a year to be a 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...
...Koppel was born in Britain, the only child of German Jews who fled Hitler's regime. His family moved to New York City when he was 13, and he grew up revering Edward R. Murrow and Alistair Cooke. After completing a B.A. at Syracuse, he received an M. A. in journalism at Stanford, where he met his wife...
...Koppels, their children (Andrea, 20; Deirdre, 18; Andrew, 13; and Tara, 12) and Grace Anne's father live in a modern house in Potomac, Md. They spend little time on Washington's social scene. Says NBC Correspondent Marvin Kalb, who collaborated with Koppel on a bestselling 1977 novel about diplomatic intrigue, In the National Interest: "Ted has very strong family feelings and does everything with dedication." Says Koppel: "Our idea of an enjoyable evening is dinner, usually Japanese, and a movie." His hobbies include reading, running, skiing and playing tennis. "I do them all at the same time...