Richard C. Wald, a former president at NBC News and a senior vice president at ABC News who worked behind the scenes with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Ted Koppel and Roone Arledge, died May 13 after suffering a stroke earlier in the month. He was 92.
Wald was involved with the creation of “Nightline,” the signature ABC News late-night program that grew out of special coverage in 1979 on the taking of U.S. embassy staff in Tehran by Iranian militants. Wald gave the show, which devoted itself to a single topic each night under the aegis of Koppel and remains on the air at ABC in modernized form, its name, trying to create an analogue to the “morning line” at a race track. He also put Brokaw on NBC’s “Today,” and hired Pauley, while working to modernize the format of “NBC Nightly News.”
His time in TV news, however, was preceded...
Wald was involved with the creation of “Nightline,” the signature ABC News late-night program that grew out of special coverage in 1979 on the taking of U.S. embassy staff in Tehran by Iranian militants. Wald gave the show, which devoted itself to a single topic each night under the aegis of Koppel and remains on the air at ABC in modernized form, its name, trying to create an analogue to the “morning line” at a race track. He also put Brokaw on NBC’s “Today,” and hired Pauley, while working to modernize the format of “NBC Nightly News.”
His time in TV news, however, was preceded...
- 5/13/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
On Tuesday, a New York judge dismissed a lawsuit that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign filed against The New York Times. The libel claim targeted an opinion column entitled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo,” by Max Frankel, who asserted that far from there being no electoral collusion, there had been an “overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russia foreign policy.” New York Supreme Court Justice James d’Auguste concludes that the commentary is nonactionable opinion, and even if otherwise, Trump has failed to show facts supporting actual ...
- 3/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Tuesday, a New York judge dismissed a lawsuit that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign filed against The New York Times. The libel claim targeted an opinion column titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo,” by Max Frankel, who asserted that far from there being no electoral collusion, there had been an “overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russia foreign policy.” New York Supreme Court Justice James d’Auguste concludes that the commentary is nonactionable opinion, and even if otherwise, Trump has failed to show facts supporting actual ...
- 3/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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