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- May 14, 1990: Channel Hopping?
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 14, 1990 Sakharov Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 25
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> CHANNEL HOPPING? Ted Koppel's contract with ABC expires at
- the end of this year, and colleagues say he is being wooed
- mightily by CBS to replace Dan Rather. Koppel is very close to
- CBS News President David Burke, a former ABC executive who
- helped negotiate his current lucrative contract. CBS would be
- willing to tailor its evening news to Koppel's on-camera
- strengths, emphasizing interviews over canned news items--a
- change that would set CBS's offering apart from its rivals'.
- Koppel has never craved an evening anchor post, but the chance
- to re-invent the format could prove irresistible. A spokeswoman
- says, "No one but Ted and his wife knows what his plans are
- when his contract expires."
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