Re: Disney versus Koppel

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 03:07 PM 3/2/2002 -0500, Donna Halper wrote:
>While not strictly a radio topic, this certainly does relate to 
>broadcasting's (allegedl) commitment to the public interest.  I notice 
>that ABC is seriously considering cancelling "Nightline" and replacing it 
>with Letterman (whose contract with CBS is nearly up).  The reason given 
>is that while Ted Koppel's long-running show still gets numbers, they are 
>not "desirable" numbers-- that is, the audience is skewing older.

I remember reading a while back that Disney has had it in for TV news for a 
long time now...this move does not surprise me.  What does interest me is 
that I saw a news blurb about this in a local (French-speaking) newscast in 
Montreal this weekend as I was scanning the dial at 2am.  (yup - I headed 
to the great white north for a weekend of inebriation...and I got a tour of 
CKAC while I was at it :-)   At first I was wondering why the hell the 
newscast was showing clips of Koppel and then Letterman but I caught 
another report on the issue from CNN (in English) a few minutes later.

Apparently they feel it's a big deal up north as well...this seemed to be a 
lead or near-lead story.


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