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Articles about Nightline by Date - Page 3 - latimes  Find breaking news, commentary, and archival information about Nightline ... ABC correspondent and anchor Ted Koppel to a three-year deal to produce ... They say "Goodnight, America" now at the end of "Nightline. ... After 25 years, Koppel departs with little fanfare ... November 22, 2005 | Scott Collins, Times Staff Writer.
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Nightline - Wikipedia  Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is a late-night news program broadcast by ABC in the United ... Originally, World News Tonight lead anchor Frank Reynolds hosted the ... Shortly after its creation, Reynolds stopped hosting the program. .... On November 22, 2005, Ted Koppel retired from Nightline after 25 years as anchor...
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Despite three speakers, 'Nightline' lacks voice - latimes  Dec 12, 2005 ... They say "Goodnight, America" now at the end of "Nightline." All three of the new anchors say it -- Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran, Martin Bashir -- they trade off. ... After 25 years, Koppel signed off his last broadcast, Nov. ... to file a week of segments on whether the U.S. should stay in Iraq or pull its troops.
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Say good night, Nightline. - Slate  Nov 23, 2005 ... 23 2005 2:50 PM ... Instead, the 65-year-old Koppel shifted the focus to a much older ... In a newly taped interview, Albom himself told Koppel that he first ... and wrote his farewell speech on Tuesday afternoon after pounding ... Koppel entreated viewers to "give this new anchor team at Nightline a fair break.
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Ted Koppel - Wikipedia  Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppel (born 8 February 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery ... On November 22, 2005, Koppel stepped down from Nightline after 25 years...
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Stone Phillips - Dateline NBC | NBC News  May 18, 2007 ... For the past fifteen years, he has reported on a wide range of topics and ... Before joining NBC News in 1992, Phillips spent twelve years with ABC ... he served as a correspondent for World News Tonight and later for 20/20.
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Phil Hartman - Biography - IMDb  ... to the United States when Phil was around ten, and he spent the majority of his ... He held Saturday Night Live (1975) together during his 8-year reign, thus the ... series NewsRadio (1995) that his anchorman character Bill McNeal had died. ... of Zapp Brannigan on the animated series Futurama (1999) before his death.
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Peter Jennings - Wikipedia  Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938  August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. ... In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program.
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The Tonight Show - Wikipedia  The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show broadcast from the Rockefeller Center in .... America After Dark, was hosted first by Jack Lescoulie (also an announcer and ... As he left his desk, he said, "I am leaving The Tonight Show. ... as announcer/sidekick until taking over hosting duties on the Today Show in...
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Columnist Biography: Ted Koppel - New York Times  Ted Koppel is a 42-year veteran of ABC News. Since 1980, he was the anchor and managing editor of ABC News Nightline, one of the most honored broadcasts...
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The Early Days of 'Late Night With David Letterman' - Newsweek  May 17, 2015 ... David Letterman's 33-year run as host of Late Night with David ... The writing staff, including Letterman himself, has won two Emmies in the last two seasons. ... stick, a basket of baseballsand approximately two dozen pencils stuck .... a Velcro suit and flung against a Velcro wall, layered with Alka-Seltzer...
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Walter Cronkite Dies - CBS News  Jul 17, 2009 ... Television Pioneer, CBS Legend, Passes Away in New York at 92. ... Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation .... In 1981, Cronkite announced he would retire at the age of 65, to make ... 1981, concluding his final broadcast as anchorman: "Old anchormen, you see,...
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Frank Reynolds - Wikipedia  Frank James Reynolds (November 29, 1923  July 20, 1983) was an American television ... In 1963, he moved to the second WBKB, an ABC owned-and-operated ... in November 1979 that evolved into the newsmagazine Nightline in March ... and later used it as part of his 1985 U.S. Top 40 and U.K. #1 (5 weeks) hit, 19.
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Network News Music  Archive  Huntley-Brinkley Report Theme  Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night, for NBC News. From the very first edition in 1956 until the last in 1970, that is how the Huntley-Brinkley...
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Ted Koppel - Wikipedia  Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppel (born 8 February 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late ... Nelson, Lancashire, England ... Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, England, after his German Jewish parents fled...
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Tom Brokaw Reflects On Cancer, 'Nightly News' And His 'Lucky Life ...  May 13, 2015 ... Tom Brokaw served as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News ... I went immediately after that birthday down to South America to bike with ... It didn't really come up until I left South Dakota and I had a ... TERRY GROSS, HOST: ..... for me was my mother who graduated from high school at 16.
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Walter Cronkite, Loving It the Way it Was - The Washington Post  Jul 29, 1986 ... Walter Cronkite, Old Ironpants himself, says he knows how to save the ailing ... When he stepped down as "CBS Evening News" anchor in March 1981, ... He certainly doesn't look too old to read a teleprompter, even though he ... I said I was going to retire at 65 and warned Bill Leonard a few months before.
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Katie Couric - Wikipedia  She remained at Today and NBC News for fifteen years until May 31, 2006, when she announced that she would be going to CBS to anchor the CBS Evening...
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David Letterman jokes he'll fake his own death over Indy 500 results ...  May 28, 2016 ... TV. The Biggest Moments From 20 Seas... TV. 'Gilmore Girls': A Binge ... Former late-night host reveals how he'd do it, tells ESPN's ... Indianapolis 500 win under its belt, er, hood, taking the title in 2004. ... He also jokes  or maybe not? ... past Indy 500 winner and RLLR co-owner Bobby Rahal, has a good...
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Mike Douglas: 1925 - 2006 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Aug 12, 2006 ... Singer, TV talk show host was a household favorite ... television talk show for more than two decades, died Friday, his 81st birthday. ... in Cleveland in 1961 and moved to Philadelphia a few years later, ran until 1982. The 90-minute program, which in 1967 became the first syndicated show to win an Emmy,...
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Paul Harvey: The End of the Story - TIME  Mar 1, 2009 ... A radio legend dies at 90, still talking up a storm. ... adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got ... In 1951 he joined the ABC network with Paul Harvey News and Comment, a title that stuck for 58 years. ... War, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong.