Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
Edward James Martin "Ted" Koppelis 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 Channel, a news analyst for NPR and BBC World News America and a contributor to Rock Center with Brian Williams. Koppel is currently a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth8 February 1940
CountryUnited States of America
The 10 of us are enormously excited to be at a place that wants nothing more than to produce the kind of television journalism that focuses on issues that matter to the largest number of people. We look forward to creating quality programming that provides the in-depth information for which Discovery Channel is known.
I think there is a tendency on the part of some of the cable networks to be in a desperate race to be first with the obvious. Can you imagine going to any one of those people and saying, 'Give us three hours of prime time'? It wouldn't happen.
Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,
You have lived up to every syllable of that commitment and I thank you.
For the rest of his life, and I do mean the rest of his life, he always regretted the fact that he had dropped out of school,
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. It's time to give something back.
What you're talking about is two very different operations. I don't want there to be hint of a suggestion that one operation is better than the other. But in the final analysis, this was a better fit.
He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man.
Even in his last days, he still filled a room.
At some point, it would probably be time to pull out anyway,
There is nothing precipitous about this, ... It's time to give a new bunch a crack at this.
She's always been by my side when I needed her,
The whole mood of the country has changed,
There were great moments very early on, great moments in the middle and great moments at the end, ... What I'm proudest of is that we've maintained high standards from beginning to end. I don't think we ever let down standards.