Nightline
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Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night television news program broadcast on 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. Its ongoing rotating anchors are Byron Pitts and Juju Chang. Nightline airs weeknights from 12:37 to 1:07 a.m., Eastern Time, after Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which had served as the program's lead-out from 2003 to 2012.
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★ 5.6Nightline, or ABC News Nightline, is a late-night news program that is broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has 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 from the program in November 2005. Nightline airs weeknights at 12:37 a.m. Eastern Time, after Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It previously ran for 31 minutes, but in 2011, the program was reduced to 25 minutes. When the program moved to 12:37 a.m. ET, the program was expanded to 30 minutes. In 2002, Nightline was ranked 23rd on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
- Aired
- 1980–2022
- Seasons
- 8 · 115 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Created by
- Roone Arledge
- Network
- ABC
- Genres
- News, Documentary
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Key facts
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- Nightline 2025 Logo.webp
- Television.genre
- News program
- Television.creator
- Roone Arledge
- Television.composer
- Matthew Kajcienski and Adam Schoenberg(2018–present)
- Television.country
- United States
- Television.language
- English
- Television.num_seasons
- 38
- Television.executive_producer
- Eman Varoqua (2021–present)
- Television.camera
- Multi-camera
- Television.company
- ABC News Productions
- Television.network
- ABC
- Television.last_aired
- present
- Television.related
- 20/20
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- America Held Hostage
- Duration
- 25
- Official website
- www.abcnews.com/nightline
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- start time
- 1979-11-08
- title
- Nightline
- Commons category
- Nightline
- number of seasons
- 38
- social media followers
- 1125233
- publication date
- 1979-11-08
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21 sectionsContents
- History
- ''The Iran Crisis—America Held Hostage'' (1979)
- Ted Koppel's ''Nightline'' (1980–2005)
- Memorable subjects
- Reading of the names <!-- This section is linked from [[Corporate censorship]] -->
- Ratings and threats of cancellation
- Koppel's final broadcast and "Closing Thought"
- Post-Koppel ''Nightline'' (2005–present)
- 2010s
- 2020s
- On-air staff
- Current on-air staff
- Anchors
- Correspondent
- Former on-air staff
- Anchors
- International broadcasts
- ''Nightline on Fusion''
- See also
- References
- External links
Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night television news program broadcast on 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. Its ongoing rotating anchors are Byron Pitts and Juju Chang. Nightline airs weeknights from 12:37 to 1:07 a.m., Eastern Time, after Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which had 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. The program has won four Peabody Awards, one in 2001, two in 2002 for the reports "Heart of Darkness" and "The Survivors," and one in 2022 for "The Appointment".