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DISH, TEXAS The boob tube--loving residents of Clark struck a deal last month with DISH Network: rename the town and get a decade of free satellite...
RETIRED. TED KOPPEL, 65, as the veteran anchor of ABC's Nightline, three years after the network's embarrassingly public attempt to bring in David Letterman to take over his time slot; in Washington. Since 1980, when the half-hour show was launched, Koppel has made Nightline a lively, aggressive examination of the news. Down-playing his exit, he ended his last broadcast by asking viewers to give his successors a chance or else, he said with a jab at ABC, "I promise you the network will just put another comedy show in this time slot. Then...
...Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (ABC, Dec. 1, 8 p.m. E.T.). He would prove himself wrong, taking more than 100 overseas trips and becoming a hugely influential and popular figure--enough so that his death is marked, less than a year later, by two network specials (though not enough so that either was scheduled during sweeps...
...RETIRED. TED KOPPEL, 65, as the veteran anchor of ABC's Nightline, three years after the network's embarrassingly public and unsuccessful effort to secretly replace him with David Letterman; in Washington, D.C. Since its inception 26 years ago, Koppel made the half-hour show a lively, aggressive examination of the day's news. Downplaying his exit, he ended his last broadcast by asking viewers to give his successors a chance. Or else, he said with a jab at ABC, "I promise the network will just put another comedy show in this time slot. Then you'll be sorry...
...interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response." SCOTT MCCLELLAN, White House spokesman, on British reports of a leaked document alleging that U.S. President George W. Bush had expressed an interest in bombing the headquarters of the Arabic television network Al-Jazeera...