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13 unusual facts about Ted Koppel


Andrea Koppel

Koppel was born in New York City, the daughter of Ted Koppel, a television journalist, and Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, an attorney and spokesperson for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Bai Yansong

He has also established several news programs on CCTV such as Timeline, modeled after Ted Koppel's Nightline on ABC News.

Bonnie Strauss

Strauss became a correspondent for ABC's National News Division in 1987, reporting for both World News Tonight and Nightline with Ted Koppel.

Dana Wolfe

Wolfe holds five Emmy Awards earned over a decade as a producer for Ted Koppel’s Nightline on ABC News.

John Mulrooney

After a few months, The Late Show was cancelled due to low ratings and competition with The Tonight Show's Johnny Carson and Nightline's Ted Koppel.

Leroy Sievers

Sievers was also was part of the Discovery Channel program entitled Living with Cancer, hosted by his friend Ted Koppel.

Mohammad Khatami's reforms

American journalist Ted Koppel who visited Iran in 2006, emphasized on the difference between Iran and other totalitarian regimes.

Operation Balboa

Chavez promised that he would send Ted Koppel documentation of the plan, "maps and everything".

Said Sheikh Samatar

In 1992, as part of the Social Science Research Council team's reassessment of the "Teaching and Study of the Humanities in Africa," he went to Somalia as a consultant and interpreter for the ABC news program Nightline with the American journalist Ted Koppel.

Ted Koppel

Koppel had a brief stint as a teacher before being hired as a copyboy at WMCA Radio in New York.

Valley State Prison

Ted Koppel interviewed many staff, including Dr. Anthony DiDomenico, the chief medical officer of VSPW, in October 1999 for series of episodes of Nightline.

Warren Kozak

He was an on-air reporter at National Public Radio and wrote for television network anchors including Ted Koppel, Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and Aaron Brown.

Yoshio Itagaki

If we are the only living creature anywhere, well, that means there is a lot of countries out there to visit, which inspired a photographer, Yoshio Itagaki to imagine the universe as one big tourist attraction. With every new planet, in every new star, there is a photo opportunity, smile! Because if we are alone, then the universe is one big empty vacation land..." narration from Brave New World series on ABC Network "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, 9/1999


Daniel Pearl Foundation

The honorary board of the Daniel Pearl Foundation includes Christiane Amanpour; former President Bill Clinton; Abdul Sattar Edhi; Danny Gill; John L. Hennessy; Ted Koppel; Queen Noor of Jordan; Sari Nusseibeh; Mariane Pearl; Itzhak Perlman; Harold M. Schulweis; Craig Sherman; Paul Steiger; and Elie Wiesel.