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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 American television's ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 November 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 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 minutes.
Maxie Cleveland Robinson Jr. [1] (May 1, 1939 [2] [3] – December 20, 1988) [4] [5] was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983. [2] [6] Robinson is noted as the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the ...
Steven Portnoy, who has made a name for himself in recent years as a White House correspondent for CBS News Radio, is returning to ABC News to work as a national correspondent for its audio ...
“The network news anchors have shrunk in so many ways from the glory days of Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw — in importance, fame, audience, and salary,” says Mark Feldstein ...
He co-executive produced a unique 24-hour live broadcast on the eve of the millennium titled “ABC 2000” that was anchored by Peter Jennings, and ran a week of coverage in the aftermath of 9/11 ...