Or is it? The much-honored late-night news program will lose the only anchor it has ever had at the end of the year. Koppel said Thursday he will end his 42-year career when his contract expires in ...

It's been 45 years since ABC News' iconic late-night show "Nightline" debuted on March 24, 1980. To celebrate the occasion on Monday, past and present anchors dive into its history and enduring appeal ...

Ted Koppel, host of the news program "Nightline," recently spent an entire program reading the names of the 721 American soldiers killed in Iraq so far. Some television stations refused to show the ...

Suddenly it's double or nothing for "Nightline." Under one proposal making the rounds at ABC News, the award-winning 30-minute news program would be transformed into a younger and hipper hour-long ...

Ted Koppel, who has provided a late night alternative to laughs as anchor of ABC News’s “Nightline” since it began 25 years ago, said yesterday he will leave the network when his contract expires in ...

Ted Koppel, who has provided a late-night alternative to laughs as anchor of ABC News' "Nightline" since it began 25 years ago, said yesterday he will leave the network when his contract expires in ...

Ted Koppel may be leaving the building, but the journalistic soul of “Nightline” will remain intact, the show’s new overseer promises. With the revamped version of the venerable ABC News program ...

Nov. 20, 2005 — -- For more than 40 years, Ted Koppel has covered everything for ABC News, all the way back to 1964 when he first sharpened his campaign chops covering Barry Goldwater with ...

NEW YORK -- Ted Koppel is keeping busy. The former host of "Nightline" added NPR to his growing list of post-ABC jobs. Beginning in June, the 65-year-old Koppel will provide commentary about 50 times ...

In 1979, as former President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election, Americans were glued to their televisions by ABC's Ted Koppel, whose groundbreaking late-night news program "Nightline" relayed ...

The turning point in his decision to join Discovery Networks, Ted Koppel said yesterday, was when executives showed him part of a documentary on China on a big-screen monitor in the conference room of ...

— -- Ted Koppel, a 42-year veteran of ABCNEWS, was named anchor of Nightline when the broadcast was introduced in March 1980. In his anchor role, Koppel is the principal on-air reporter and ...