 Along with David Susskind and Raysa Bonow, he created and produced the first primetime entertainment magazine "People" for CBS in 1979.Cole also hosted "A. M. New York".He returned briefly in 1974 as the star of the first HBO-produced music special "Clay Cole's 20 Years of Rock and Roll," a two-hour event taped at Rockland Community College, and as co-host of the WABC-TV weekday program, "AM New York."