Koppel hosted "Nightline" for 25 years. Ted Koppel, who hosted ABC News’ "Nightline" for 25 years from its inception in 1980, said it was a "national obsession" with the Iran hostage crisis that drew ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' "Nightline" since it began 25 years ago, said yesterday he will leave the network when his contract expires in ...

NEW YORK — The Ted Koppel era on ABC's "Nightline" ends with his farewell Tuesday night after 25 years of offering a serious alternative to late-night laughs. Koppel's final broadcast was to be a look ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Less than two months after leaving “Nightline,” Ted Koppel agreed to a three-year deal Wednesday to make documentaries for the Discovery Channel, bringing nine of his former ABC News ...

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 ...

The problem for "Nightline," as Terry Moran sees it, lies not with the viewers but with the media. In the three months since Moran, Cynthia McFadden and Martin Bashir took the helm of a revamped ...