Dan Rather Reports: The 100th Episode

By Alissa Krinsky 

Dan Rather Reports — which debuted November 14, 2006 — marks a milestone tonight: the program’s 100th episode.

“Taking this program from a literal start-up,” Rather tells TVNewser, “to what it is now is among the happiest and most satisfying professional things in my memory.

“The whole Reports team and I feel a deep gratitude to [HDNet President and Co-Founder] Mark Cuban for being an owner who believes in hard news and doesn’t back up when the heat’s on.

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“He said that he would give us complete, total and absolute creative control and he’s done so.”

Airing at 8pmET (with an 11pmET re-broadcast), tonight’s program, “A Border Runs Through It,” will take a look at Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Over the past two-plus years, Reports has focused on topics such as touch-screen voting machines, Mexican drug cartels, and post-Katrina FEMA trailers.

Rather says he is “proud to be a part” of the program, and, combined with his love of work, “I hope and expect to keep doing [the show] as long as God and Mark Cuban allow me to.”

“I don’t see a time,” Rather says, “when I will ‘retire.'”

(photo by Lynton Gardiner)

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