Richard C. Wald, who was the last managing editor of The New York Herald Tribune, ran NBC News in the 1970s, and helped turn ABC News into a powerhouse, died May 13 in New Rochelle, NY. He was 92.

In 1980, Mr. Wald also gave ABC’s celebrated late-night news program, Nightline, its name. At the time, it was called America Held Hostage, a nightly report about the hostage crisis in Iran. Ted Koppel, the program’s former host, recalled a meeting with Roone Arledge, ABC’s president; Mr. Wald, and David Burke, Mr. Arledge’s other top lieutenant, at which they tossed out new names for the program. “Dick said, ‘You know, in horse racing, they’ve got this thing called the morning line. Why don’t we call it Nightline?’” Mr. Koppel said in a phone interview. “And the three of us said that’s a really terrible idea, and Dick said, ‘I haven’t heard anything better.’” Nightline has aired since 1980.