Nightline (US news program)
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| Also known as | The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage (1979) ABC News Nightline |
| Genre | News program |
| Created by | Roone Arledge |
| Presented by |
Ted Koppel (1980–2005) Dan Harris (2013–present) Byron Pitts (2014–present) Juju Chang (2014–present) (for past anchors, see section) |
| Theme music composer |
Score Productions (1979–1997) Edd Kalehoff (1997–2005) VideoHelper (2005–2014) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 33 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Roxanna Sherwood (2014–present) |
| Location(s) | ABC News Washington Bureau, Washington, D.C. (1980–2007) Times Square Studios New York City, New York (2005–2006, 2009–present) ABC News Headquarters, New York City, New York (2006–2009) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 20 minutes (1980–1981) 30 minutes (1981–1983, 2013–present) 60 minutes (1983) 31 minutes (1983–2011) 25 minutes (2011–2013) |
| Production company(s) | ABC News Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) (1980–2008) 720p (HDTV) (2008–present) |
| Original release | March 24, 1980 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | 20/20 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is a late-night news program broadcast by ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main anchor from March 1980 until his retirement in November 2005. It is currently anchored by Dan Harris, Byron Pitts and Juju Chang on an alternating basis. Nightline airs weeknights at 12:35 a.m. Eastern Time after Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which previously served as the program's lead-out from 2003 to 2012.
In 2002, Nightline was ranked 23rd on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. It has won three Peabody Awards, one in 2001, and two in 2002 for the reports "Heart of Darkness" and "The Survivors".
Through a video-sharing agreement with the BBC, Nightline also repackages some of the BBC's output for an American audience. Segments from Nightline are also shown in a condensed form on ABC's overnight news program World News Now. There is also a version of Nightline for sister cable channel Fusion.
The program had its beginnings on November 8, 1979, just four days after the start of the Iran hostage crisis. ABC News president Roone Arledge felt that the best way to compete against NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was to update Americans on the latest news from Iran. At that time, the show was called The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage: Day "xxx", where xxx represented each day that Iranians held the occupants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran hostage. Originally, World News Tonight lead anchor Frank Reynolds hosted the 20-minute-long special reports.
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