Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television

by Ted Koppel

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 scenes of the making of the show and looks at the profound revolution now shaking the information industry. Photos.

Genres: Journalism, History, Nonfiction

477 pages, Hardcover

First published May 7, 1996

About the author

Ted Koppel, a 42-year veteran of ABC News, was anchor and managing editor of Nightline from 1980 to 2005. New York University recently named Koppel one of the top 100 American journalists of the past 100 years. He has won every significant television award, including 8 George Foster Peabody Awards, 11 Overseas Press Club Awards (one more than the previous record holder, Edward R. Murrow), 12 duPont-Columbia Awards, and 42 Emmys. Since 2005 he has served as managing editor of the Discovery Channel, as a news analyst for BBC America, as a special correspondent for Rock Center, and continues to function as commentator and nonfiction book critic at NPR. He has been a contributing columnist to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and is the author the New York Times bestseller Off Camera.

Reviews

[Terry Irving]

Can I have a category of "Books I really can't review because I'm in it and he says nice things about me?"

Read it anyway. It's nice to remember the Good Old Days when Nightline was a nightly news event and a major player in how politics and policy were created in DC.

Of course, it didn't get as high ratings as celebrity interviews but we never got bumped by Jimmy Kimmel either.

[Arnold]

Ted Koppel hosted ABC television's Nightline Line in the USA from its premiere opening and was still going 4,000 broadcsats later - a total institution

[Jacquelyn Kessler]

One of my all time favorites--the man and this book. It even includes a whole section of his wonderful Nightline Intros (so well done) I miss that show.