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Tuesday, Jun 24
Ted Koppel Opens Up About Meet the Press, Nightline and Conan5 Questions For...Ted Koppel Alissa Krinsky
Over the past several days, Koppel's name has surfaced as speculation continues over who will be named permanent host of NBC's Meet the Press. Would he be interested in the job? "I honestly don't know," he tells TVNewser. "I really don't. I'm not going to be cute with you. My hunch is that Tom [Brokaw] will be so good in that job, that he will want to do it for a longer period of time. Other than that, I still have a year to go on my contract with Discovery. I realize I'm sounding like a non-Presidential candidate right now, but I'm just not going to go beyond that. Nobody has asked, so I haven't been put into that awkward position yet." Koppel's newest Discovery series, The People's Republic of Capitalism, a four-part look at contemporary China, premieres Wednesday, July 9 at 10pmET, continuing for the next three nights thereafter. 1. TVNewser: My upcoming China special is the result of... (Photo: Severi/Discovery) Tragically, John died suddenly a few months later from heart failure believed to have been brought on by a virus. He was just 26. As you can imagine, that only intensified our determination to make these programs the best we could possibly do. Our audience will be the ultimate judge of that. But I can assure you that no group of producers and editors has ever worked harder or with greater passion on a project. Over all it was ten months in the making and we couldn't have asked for greater cooperation from the authorities in China; cooperation, in this instance, largely taking the form of absolute non-interference. 2. TVNewser: This stage of my career — working for Discovery Channel and NPR — is: When you produce only six hours a year, as we do for Discovery, there's a lot more pressure to make each program 'great.' Obviously, we don't succeed as often as we'd like to, but you need to know that we throw ourselves into each project striving for nothing less. 3. TVNewser: At 11:35 pmET each night, when Nightline comes on, I.... 4. TVNewser: My greatest journalistic achievement: 5. TVNewser: Despite my having been on television for decades, here's something the American people don't know about me: Email This Post |
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