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"Nightline" Has a Threesome
How good is Ted Koppel? So good that it will take three people to replace him on Nightline.
ABC News announced Monday that Martin Bashir, Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran will serve as coanchors of the venerable news program starting Nov. 28; Koppel wraps his final broadcast on Nov. 22 before the Thanksgiving holiday.
"Building on the great legacy of Nightline as we go forward to the next era is both a challenge and an exciting opportunity. Cynthia McFadden, Martin Bashir and Terry Moran bring the combination of intelligence, experience and perspective that can ensure that Nightline's future is every bit as bright as its past," David Westin, president of ABC News, said in a statement.
Koppel, who lorded over Nightline since it began in 1980 as a live late-night briefing of the U.S.-Iran hostage crisis, is exiting after 42 years at the Alphabet net.
To fill his seat, ABC has selected three very distinct news personalities.
The British-born Bashir is best known for the documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which sparked the child molestation case against the entertainer that ended with the popster's acquittal. (Bashir was a witness in the case.)
Bashir, who joined ABC's 20/20 in September 2004, is a veteran investigative journalist who rose to international prominence when Princess Diana chose him to interview her in 1995 regarding the affair she had with James Hewitt, the breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles (she filed for divorce a year later) and her battle with bulimia. Aside from the tabloid-friendly stories, Bashir also did a highly regarded series of investigative reports for the BBC and ITV, including an in-depth examination of one of Britain's most infamous racially motivated murders.
Moran's has a more traditional news pedigree, having covered former Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000 and having served as ABC News' chief White House correspondent since 1999. Aside from reporting on the current commander-in-chief's domestic and foreign trips, he has reported on 9-11 and the war on terror and traveled to Baghdad in November 2003 to cover the Iraq war. Moran is also anchor of ABC's World News Tonight Sunday.
McFadden began her stint with the network in February 1994 as a legal correspondent. She subsequently began filing reports for PrimeTime Live (now simply Primetime), covering everything from an execution in Louisiana to grandmothers who raise their grandchildren. She became a coanchor of the news magazine in 2004. This month, she has done two reports for Nightline--one taking a critical look at the U.S. government's efforts to secure loose nuclear materials and weapons both at home and abroad and the other an exclusive interview with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
The new Nightline set up will allow the anchors to continue their current duties for the other shows. Moran will stay in Washington, D.C., where Koppel was based, and continue to cover the White House, while Bashir and McFadden will anchor Nightline from ABC's Times Square studios in New York, where 20/20 and Primetime are taped.
As part of the change, Nightline will also eschew the one-topic per half-hour format and broadcast multiple stories each night.
Last spring, Koppel, 65, announced his plans to leave ABC News and Nightline when his contract expired Dec. 4. Earlier this month, the veteran newsman moved up his timetable.
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