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11 September 2008 10:33 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Charles Gibson's interview with Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, will receive unprecedented exposure on ABC tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow, with segments of the interview airing on ABC World News and Nightline tonight and on Good Morning America and 20/20 Friday night. The Palin campaign set the timing for the interview, which takes place on the same day her son Track is deployed to Iraq.

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25 August 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Democratic National Convention is due to open tonight (Monday), but with Barack Obama already established as the party's presidential nominee and Joe Biden it's vice-presidential, some writers were asking whether the convention -- as well as the upcoming Republican one -- doesn't merely amount to a political infomercial. Others were questioning the need for a political convention at all. Drama was building over whether ailing Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy would attend tonight's (Monday) session. The Boston Herald quoted his son Patrick as saying that his father wants to attend a planned tribute that is to be staged for him tonight. Meanwhile, ABC News is using the convention to launch the expansion of its news programming into HDTV. Not only will it carry the conventions in HDTV, but also its World News With Charles Gibson, Nightline, Primetime and 20/20.

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18 August 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Veteran TV news producer Leroy Sievers, who spent ten years with CBS News before becoming executive producer of ABC's Nightline, died Saturday in Maryland at age 53 after chronicling his seven-year battle with cancer on NPR and developing a blog for cancer sufferers called "My Cancer." In a statement, former Nightline anchor Ted Koppel said, "Cancer was not in Leroy's plans. But he turned his battle with cancer into the most dramatic, the most moving and the most important story of his life."

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17 July 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

ABC's late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel pretended to be a journalist as he "interviewed" ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson Wednesday at the TV Critics Association's meeting with network brass. As reported by the Associated Press, the topic was the possibility of Jay Leno moving to ABC when Conan O'Brien takes over NBC's Tonight show in 2009. McPherson: "I can't believe they're going to let this guy go at the top of his game. ... If that happens, we'll look at it at the time and Jimmy will be involved in those discussions." Kimmel: "If anything were, God forbid, to happen ... would Ted Koppel get fired, or how would that work?" (Koppel left Nightline, the news program that airs opposite Leno's in 2005.) McPherson: "It would be doomsday for Ted." Kimmel: "If you were even to talk to Jay Leno, wouldn't that be like contract tampering? Wouldn't that be illegal? Couldn't you go to jail for that?" A moment later: "Are you at all afraid that if you do replace Jimmy Kimmel he might do something crazy to you or your car?" The interview over, McPherson praised Kimmel and said that his "show creatively is firing on all cylinders and we're hugely supportive of it."

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9 July 2008 10:31 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Stepping up its competition with the American all-news cable networks, BBC World News America announced Tuesdays that former ABC Nightline anchor Ted Koppel will become a regular contributor to its nightly broadcasts, which air on the BBC America channel and BBC World News channel. Rome Hartman, the former CBS Evening News producer who now oversees BBC World News America, said in a statement that Koppel's "knowledge and insight on everything, from China's economic development to the battle for the White House, is second to none and his analysis of stories and issues is razor-sharp." He indicated that Koppel would contribute to the BBC news program's coverage of the upcoming political conventions and presidential election. Koppel, who was born in the U.K. and became a naturalized U.S. citizen, praised the BBC for its unmatched worldwide coverage, adding: "To the degree that our future in this country is dependent to any extent on what's happening in the rest of the world -- which you won't hear about a great deal on the American networks -- then the BBC can be very, very helpful."

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27 June 2008 4:24 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Ben Affleck has filmed a report about war-torn Congo for US news show Nightline. The 35-year-old actor travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to film a segment highlighting how violence, starvation and disease claims 1,200 lives a day in the region. In a posting on Us network ABC's website, Affleck said that viewers shouldn't be skeptical about his "celebrity activism". He said: "There is always (more)

By Simon Reynolds

6 articles from 2008