Ted Koppel hangs up his cleats at ABC tonight. But
in an interview with Charlie Rose last night he hinted that he will
be returning shortly to the airwaves, perhaps at HBO.Â
Koppel prides himself on mature truth-telling, so he
had no problem telling Rose that ABC gingerly
showed him the door because his salary was going up and his ratings
were going down. ABC wanted to throw a hail mary
and expand the show to a live hour -- KoppelÂ
disclosed the trade secret that the beginning
of the end for a show is the moment when
executives start talking about expanding it -- but
Koppel didn't want the bother and didn't want to have hang
around ABC until midnight.
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