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Elizabeth Jennings. Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American television journalist, best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 October 2024. American television news program ABC World News Tonight Current version of logo, used since August 9, 2021 Also known as News and Views (1948–1951) After The Deadlines (1951–1952) All-Star News (1952–1953) John Daly and the News (1953–1960) ABC Evening Report (1960–1962) Ron ...
The Century: America's Time is a 15-part television series of documentaries produced by ABC News about the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower. The documentary originally aired on The History Channel in 1999. Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC World News Tonight narrates the series.
ABC Person of the Week. ABC Person of the Week is a feature of ABC World News Tonight that began in 1986 and was still running in 2021. It provides a short biography or story of an interesting person, at the end of the Friday night broadcast, thus having high prominence. For news programs, it is a relatively long segment, running three to four ...
Aaron Brown (born November 10, 1948) is an American broadcast journalist most recognized for his coverage of the September 11 attacks for CNN. [2] He was a longtime reporter for ABC, the founding host of ABC's World News Now, weekend anchor of World News Tonight and the host of CNN's flagship evening program NewsNight with Aaron Brown.
1963–1974. Lower was named president of ABC News in 1963. During his tenure, he was responsible for hiring Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Frank Reynolds, and Sam Donaldson. In that time, the news division grew from 250 to 750 employees, and the evening news expanded from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. William Sheehan.
Frank James Reynolds (November 29, 1923 – July 20, 1983) was an American television journalist for CBS and ABC News. [1] [2] [3] [4]Reynolds was a New York–based anchor of the ABC Evening News from 1968 to 1970 and later was the Washington, D.C.–based co-anchor of World News Tonight from 1978 until his death in 1983.
Woodruff began working for ABC News in 1996. [6] [7] He succeeded Peter Jennings as a co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight in December 2005 with Elizabeth Vargas. In January 2006, Woodruff was critically wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.