“Koppel on Discovery” will premiere Sept. 10 with a three-hour primetime examination of the war on terrorism. Robert Bianco writes:
“If you want to know why Koppel left ABC for Discovery, he says you have your answer right there: three hours of prime time. ABC reaches a vastly larger audience, but that doesn’t do a newscaster much good when ‘it is all but impossible to get prime time for a serious foreign policy broadcast. … With Discovery, you have a network that is committed to doing precisely the kind of programming that my colleagues and I want to do, and precisely the kind of programming that the networks for commercial reasons can not and are not doing any more.'”
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