Over a year later, the hostages came home, but Koppel and Nightline stayed on and ran for many more years. Cable provided the technology for later imitators, but Nightline provided the model. The “breaking” alerts and the chyrons—those little ribbons of news factoids that now scroll across the bottom of the screen on news networks—all originated with a program that was, in effect, created on the fly in response to a crisis.
