Kathleen Sullivan interviewing future reality television show star Martin Bayerle, of the reality television show “Million Dollar Wreck” on ABC’s morning infotainment program.

ABC News had remodeled the set of their morning infotainment program to being late-1980’s vogue by this time, and Charles Gibson had already succeeded David Hartman as the host of their morning infotainment program by this time.

Not too long after this interview was conducted, Kathleen Sullivan had left ABC’s news department for CBS’s news department. Kathleen Sullivan had followed Paula Zahn to CBS News. Roone Arledge’s right-hand man, David Burke had also left his position at ABC News to take the job as the President of CBS News. Burke had wanted to ‘run his own shop’ and perhaps invigorate new life into CBS’s news department as it was falling in popularity by this time and it’s once sterling reputation was gone as ABC’s news department was on the rise in popularity by this time.

Personally, I’ve always liked CBS News.

Diane Saywer, while still working at CBS; also conducting an interview with Martin Bayerle 2 years earlier in 1985.

News report from 1987 anchored by Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News about Martin Bayerle:

Video of Kathleen Sullivan publically announcing her departure from CBS on the air: