Peter Jennings was one of American television's most prominent journalists. He served as the sole anchor of ABC Television’s ‘World News Tonight’ for 22 years. A high-school dropout who started his career in journalism early, producing local newscasts on a Canadian TV channel, he joined ‘ABC TV’ to anchor its flagship evening news program. His inexperience was panned but he made a very successful comeback to ‘World News Tonight’ after a stint as a foreign correspondent reporting from the Middle East. Initially, one of the three anchors of the show, he became its sole anchor and established his reputation as an indefatigable globetrotting television journalist reporting from every conflict zone and major world capitals besides all the states in America. Jennings was much admired for his ability to describe world-changing events calmly as they unfolded live; he often stayed on the air for marathon sessions to keep his millions of viewers up to date with the latest happenings. At the peak of the show’s popularity, Peter Jennings managed to reach a nightly audience of 14 million, sometime exceeding the viewership of competitors, ‘CBS’ and ‘NBC’ by more than two million viewers.