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Ted Koppel, anchor of the ABC News program Nightline.

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Koppel was born in Lancashire, England, after his Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. He graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science degree and from Stanford University with a Master of Arts degree in mass communications research and political science. He is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Hitler redirects here. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Political science is the field of the social sciences concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity (ΠΚΑ) is an international, secret, social, Greek-letter, college Fraternity. ...

Koppel started working at ABC in 1963, first as a foreign correspondent for the network. He is most widely known as the long-time lead anchorman for Nightline, a position he held when the program began in 1980. Koppel gave up that position on November 22, 2005. Nightline is a late-night hard news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Following Nightline Koppel has taken on a number of roles which span various formats of news media: News media satellite up-link trucks and photojournalists gathered outside the Prudential Financial headquarters in Newark, New Jersey in August, 2004 following the announcement of evidence of a terrorist threat to it and to buildings in New York City. ...

• He was named managing editor of the Discovery Channel, where he will host and produce news programs covering major global topics and events;
• He signed up as an Op-Ed contributing columnist, effective Jan. 29, for The New York Times [1];
• Starting in June 2006, he will provide commentary to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day on National Public Radio, joining NPR's other two Senior News Analysts, Cokie Roberts and Daniel Schorr [2];
• Arabic television news channel Al Jazeera courted Koppel to join its 24-hour English-language service Al Jazeera plans to launch this year, Reuters reported. Veteran "Nightline" correspondent Dave Marash had already accepted a job with Al Jazeera. "I don't think Tom and I entertained it more than 38 seconds", the former "Nightline" anchor said at an annual winter gathering of TV critics in Pasadena, referring to himself and longtime production partner Tom Bettag.

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Departure from Nightline

On November 22, 2005, Koppel stepped down from Nightline after 25 years with the program and left ABC after 42 years with the network. His final Nightline broadcast did not feature clips highlighting memorable interviews and famous moments from his tenure as host, as is typical when an anchor retires. Instead, the show recalled Koppel's 1995 interviews with retired Brandeis University sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). For this broadcast, Koppel interviewed sports journalist Mitch Albom, who had been a student of Schwartz. Albom talked about how the Nightline interviews led to him contacting Schwartz personally, visiting him weekly and eventually publishing the book Tuesdays with Morrie, chronicling lessons about life learned from Schwartz. November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ... Morris S. Schwartz (December 20, 1916-November 4, 1995) was an American educator. ... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease, Maladie de Charcot or motor neurone disease) is a progressive, sometimes fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons. ... Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an award-winning American sportswriter, novelist, newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, syndicated radio host, and TV commentator. ... Tuesdays With Morrie is a bestselling non-fiction book by American writer Mitch Albom, published in 1997 (ISBN 0385484518). ...

Ted Koppel on Nightline in 1995.

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Koppel has gone on to become a senior correspondent for NPR and Discovery Channel. NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Discovery Channel is a property of Discovery Communications primarily packaged as a network entertainment brand distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world. ...

Trivia

• Koppel is multi-lingual, speaking German, Russian, and French, in addition to his native English.

• Koppel is also an excellent mimic, doing skilled impressions of William F. Buckley, and others, though he rarely does impressions in public or on television.

• Koppel is an old friend of Henry Kissinger. Both Kissinger and Koppel come from European Jewish families; both moved to the United States as children. As Secretary of State, Kissinger once offered Koppel a job as his spokesman, but Koppel declined.

• Koppel's daughter Andrea Koppel is a Congressional correspondent for CNN.

• In 2003, Koppel was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as it marched toward Baghdad during the 2003 Iraq War. At the onset of the war, Koppel made a rare on-air mistake, misquoting and misattributing Shakespeare in a report where he said "Wreak havoc and unleash the dogs of war! [sic]"; the actual quote, "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!" is from Julius Caesar, not from Henry V as Koppel claimed.

• Koppel was mentioned in the play and movie Rent by Jonathan Larson, in which two cops were hassling a homeless lady, and Mark says, "Smile for Ted Koppel, officers" while filming them.

• Koppel is featured in the January 2007 issue of Bad Ass Magazine because of his frequent push-up contest victories.

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See also

• Koppel on Discovery: Iran, The most Dangerous Nation? (2006)

Ted Kopples documentary on Iran (2006) Koppel on Discovery: Iran, The most Dangerous Nation? is a documentary about post revolution-Iran and Iran-US conflicts made by Ted Koppel Team in Iran (2006). ...

External links

• Biography from ABC
• Ted Koppel to Join 'NY Times' Editorial Page, Contribute to NPR, a January 2006 article from Editor & Publisher
• Global National anchor Kevin Newman recalls Ted Koppel on his blog