The following are extended excerpts of his interview with media correspondent Terence Smith. The NewsHour Media Unit is funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Anchors discuss their 2000 election night coverage . A look at the new ways of covering the 2000 political conventions . New technologies are changing the way people watch television .
Media companies form content partnerships .
Describe them as they were at the height of their influence, these evening news broadcasts. And the family structure and the family hour was a lot different from what it is right now. And I think it was probably the dominant news medium in the country at the time. It was pretty serious. It was a man sitting in a studio in New York and introducing pieces from correspondents around the country and indeed around the world.