Nightline:: History in the Making and the Making of Television

by Ted Koppel

Book Overview

Since its premiere in 1980, Nightline has become an American institution, watched by more than 25 million people five times a week. This highly readable history of the program takes readers behind the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812924789
• ISBN13: 9780812924787
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A must-read for NIGHTLINE fans!

The use of statellite technology for live interviews around the globe is so ubiquitous that you almost forget a time without it. NIGHTLINE is the program that pioneered this technology and showed how it could bring newsmakers on all points of the globe together for debate and discussion. The book recounts in well-researched detail the events that led to the birth of the program, its evolution and continued development. Fans of the show will enjoy all the nuggets of information: the circumstances that led to an unknown correspondent to be the permanent host; the selection of the name itself; details of experiments that failed. Though billed as being by Ted Koppel and Kyle Gibson, Koppel makes it clear that the book is largely Gibson's. Gibson was a producer for the program for several years but has moved on to other posts within ABC News. This is another benefit of the book: she brings the perspective of having been an insider while not being too close to the project. You'll enjoy the many excerpts of memorable programs and exchanges, and Koppel's hidden sense of humor shines through.