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Article: ABC News reaches a crossroads.(World News Tonight With Peter Jennings)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- August 9, 2005
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ABC News isn't ready to let the late Peter Jennings go ,just yet, saying its nightly news program, "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings," will retain that title for the near future. But Jennings' death Sunday from lung cancer raises complicated succession questions for the news division, which poured its energy into helping Jennings fight the disease.
His passing comes in a year of unprecedented transition for the networks' evening newscasts, with all three having switched anchors since December.
It also marks a crossroads for ABC News. Jennings had been with the network since 1964, and another star anchor who has been with the net just as long, ...