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Ted Koppel
American television journalist (born 1940)
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1979 (1) · Ted Koppel (1) · Iran hostage crisis (1) · Nightline (1) · U.S. Embassy Tehran (1) · broadcast journalism (1) · U.S.-Iran relations (1)
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Edward James Martin Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005.
Before Nightline, he spent 20 years as a broadcast journalist and news anchor for ABC. After becoming host of Nightline, he was regarded as one of the outstanding serious-minded interviewers on American television. Five years after its 1980 debut, the show had a nightly audience of about 7.5 million viewers.
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🇺🇸 Ted Koppel looks back at the 1979 Iran hostage crisis
"Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel reflects on how the U.S. government, and the media, reacted to the 1979 kidnapping of Americans in Tehr...
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