Nightline: Summary

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  • Airs Next:ABC at Weekdays 11:35 PM (30 min.)
  • Status:Returning Series
  • Premiered:November 4, 1979
The genesis of Nightline occurred after Iranian fundamentalists seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. With several Americans taken hostage, ABC News president Roone Arledge conquered the airspace after affiliates' late news for a daily report called America Held Hostage. Before that crisis was seven months old, Arledge renamed the program Nightline, a fixture on ABC ever since, devoting itself to a single story each night.

The genesis of Nightline occurred after Iranian fundamentalists seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. With several Americans taken hostage, ABC News president Roone Arledge conquered the airspace after affiliates' late news for a daily report called America Held Hostage. Before that crisis was seven months old, Arledge renamed the program...

Pushing the Envelope

Aired: Friday January 6, 2006

Howard Stern speaks of his move to satellite radio.

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