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A 5 page paper discussing the late-night news show. Born of the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, the ABC news show has been running continually for 20 years with Ted Koppel as its anchor. The paper discusses the general liberal slant of most journalists, the effects of American families' hectic schedules on their ability to see network news, and Koppel's mastery of keeping passionate guests to the issues at hand as some of the reasons for the show's continued success. Koppel himself deserves much of the credit for the success of the show, and ABC will need to carefully select a successor when he retires. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnitelin.doc
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Ages could have been, but long before CNN was anyones brain child and when cable service was only in cities that could yield populations high enough to make its provision
profitable, broadcast news was limited to the three major networks: ABC, CBS and NBC. America was news hungry before we began dealing with a steady diet of it,
and there was a hostage situation in Iran than seemingly no one could solve. It was 1979 (Anonymous, 1989), and the American government seemed-and indeed was-powerless to retrieve hostages
being held as "spies." Americans came together in their concern for the safety of the hostages, and seemingly everyone wanted news as soon as it was available.
All the other activities of the world also were continuing, and there was other news to cover. Eventually, ABC added another network news
broadcast following the local late news. The anchor chosen for the program that was to run only for the duration of the crisis was Ted Koppel, a broadcast journalist
whose name only few had heard. The Iranians did eventually release the hostages, though they refused to do so while Jimmy Carter
was still in office. The hostages were released immediately after Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his first term in office. After their release and the cessation of
the situation on which an entire news broadcast had been built, however, the shows name was changed to "Nightline" and remained on ABCs schedule in its original time and format.
The only difference was that of focus as the show began to take on other issues. At the end of the
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