Complex sentence: In 1976, ABC Sports employed Salinger as a features commentator for the network's coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, and in 1978, he was hired by ABC News as its Paris bureau chief.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1976, ABC Sports employed Salinger as a features commentator for the network's coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck. In 1978, he was hired by ABC News as its Paris bureau chief.