Posted on 02/06/2005 9:45:37 PM PST by Dont Mention the War
8:58 PM PST, February 6, 2005
Three years after narrowly surviving the ax, ABC's long-running "Nightline" is in jeopardy again.
Network parent Walt Disney Co. is serious enough about replacing the late-night news show — hosted by Ted Koppel since 1980 — to have ordered executives to start devising alternatives, according to sources familiar with the plans.
ABC News last week shot a pilot for one possible "Nightline" replacement, a freewheeling show hosted by Washington reporter Jake Tapper and Bill Weir, the co-anchor of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America," according to two people inside the network. One of the pilot's top stories was about the Michael Jackson child molestation trial — exactly the kind of tabloid-friendly fodder that the generally sober-minded "Nightline" has tended to avoid.
Disney's ESPN, meanwhile, is said to be developing an all-sports program for ABC's 11:35 p.m. slot, presumably in hopes of luring the relatively abundant supply of young men watching TV at that hour. An ESPN spokeswoman reached late Friday said she was unaware of such plans.
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Nightline doesn't deserve to survive in its present form.
Conservatives abandoned that show at least a decade ago as more choices in news programming became available on cable and satellite.
to have ordered executives to start devising alternatives,
I'll make it easy for them: "Goodbye Ted"
Criminy -- Ted Koppel was doing Nightline when I was a young teenager, in the mid-1970s. All I can remember back then is that he looked like Alfred E. Newman, the goofy cartoon character of Mad Magazine.
the epitaph of the MSM will include a line that NONE of this had to happen. Nightline and others, killed themselves with their own self imposed ignorance. I don't think the left has the intelectual wherewithal to see opposing points of view.
Great!! Another Lying Socialist mouthpiece bites the dust!!
The Networks Propaganda machines failing!!
The US has a much more open economy than Europe. The left's techniques worked in Europe. They're just disappointed they don't have that kind of clout here.
LOL! You're right -- I used to see Mad in the drugstore back then -- Koppel does look just like him.
Never watch it but...the end for Nightline can't come soon enough.
Guess that means your Mom didn't let you buy it (!). My brother and I bought them secretly with our allowance and hid them with the rest of our contraband, in the treehouse. There was no way either of my parents could get that high in the tree and see what was there.
The plot stinks and the jokes are timed badly
Ummm.... 'Nightline' apparently came about during the Iran-hostage crisis. I think it was late 70's.
HA HA
I don't watch Nightline I watch Leno or Letterman before bedtime it kinda funny that Koppel may be can LOL!
"Nightline" is still on the air?
News to me.
Jack.
It's about time!!
I can't remember if I even asked -- there were guys in my class who brought copies to school. I think I even read a few copies -- I was into more serious reading at that age (translation --I was a stuffy bookworm -- LOL).
You got it. Most of us quit on "Nutline" in the late eighties to early nineties.
I made that mistake with Area_51 once and it was rather embarrassing when she finally set me straight.
If it makes you feel any better, my parents saddled me with a name that often gets me mistaken (only not in person) for a man, anyway. They named me for my grandfather because they thought I'd be the only child. I used to get letters from the armed forces asking me to enlist when women didn't get those sorts of letters.
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