Richard Wald, a longtime journalist and TV executive who guided the programs and anchors that helped shape network news over several decades, died Friday at 92. Wald had been at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in Westchester, N.Y. since suffering a massive stroke Sunday night.... He died at the hospital Friday morning, his son Jonathan said. Wald was a print journalist who moved into television in the 1970s.... Richard Wald, Roone Arldge and President Reagan at the dedication of the ABC News

It's been 45 years since ABC News' iconic late-night show" Nightline" debuted on March 24, 1980.... " If you thought that that kind of hate was over, we had the opportunity to show America that it was not."" Nightline" has also examined American life through the cultural lens, sometimes taking a lighter approach to heavy topics.... That included bringing Kermit the Frog and his fellow Muppets on set to discuss complexities of the 1987 stock market crash." When the Muppets came in, I mean, peop