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Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. (July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002) was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
ABC News president Roone Arledge figured that the best way to compete against NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was to update Americans on the latest news from Iran. At that time, the show was called The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage: Day "xxx" , where xxx represented the number of days that Iranians held the occupants of the U ...
The second edition was released in 1997, [1] followed by an expanded, refined, and revised third edition in 2011, published by the Bangla Academy. [ 3 ] The second edition incorporated portraits of approximately 700 prominent individuals and provided insights into the lives of nearly 1,000 notable Bengali intellectuals and luminaries.
Book Author Category of Books 1967 Shadow from Ladakh: Bhabani Bhattacharya: Novel 1969 An Artist in Life: Niharranjan Ray: Study of Tagore 1975 Scholar Extraordinary: Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Biography of Max Müller: 1989 The Shadow Lines: Amitav Ghosh: Novel 1996 Memories of Rain: Sunetra Gupta: Novel 2002 A New World: Amit Chaudhuri: Novel 2003 ...
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Duncan "Dick" Ebersol [1] (/ ˈ ɛ b ər s ɒ l /; born July 28, 1947) is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. [2] He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large-scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts.
Arledge may refer to: Arledge Field , a public airport in Stamford, Texas Arledge Mounds I and II , a pair of registered historic structures near Circleville, Ohio
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