• BC Beat, Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:48 PM

BC Beat, the excellent, recently launched blog from the staff of Broadcasting & Cable, reports on the goings and comings of "Nightline" staffers as the venerable ABC program prepares to end the Koppel period on the 28th of this month. The shows after Thanksgiving will not only be Koppel-less, they will be based in New York. Until now, "Nightline" came from Washington, and that was ever apparent from both its subject matter and its sensibility. The new format presumably will be less Capitol-centric. BC Beat reports that ABC's farewell party for Ted and Company is set for tomorrow night at the Kennedy Center--and that the network has graciously sprung for buses (buses?) to ferry staff members back and forth between the festivities and their duties at "Nightline" headquarters.

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