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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 ...
After selling his company to ABC, he hired a young Roone Arledge to produce the show. The series' April 29, 1961, debut telecast featured both the Penn and Drake Relays . Jim McKay (who hosted the program for most of its history) and Jesse Abramson , the track and field writer for the New York Herald Tribune , broadcast from Franklin Field with ...
20/20 (stylized as 20 20) is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, [1] the program was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes in that it features in-depth story packages, although it focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects.
Our three leads have three different priorities: Arledge is the humanist; Bader, the ethicist; Mason, the visualist who wants the right images. (“You got it, Kubrick,” one of his men jokes.)
The premiere episode featured celebrity guests Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Paul Anka, Siegfried and Roy, Yogi Berra, the cast of the Broadway musical of The Wiz opened up the show as they danced out of the Majestic Theatre onto a yellow brick road as they sang their pop hit "Ease on Down the Road" straight to the Ed Sullivan Theater as they met and escorted Howard Cosell on stage, tennis ...
He was involved in the broadcast of 13 World Series, 16 baseball All-Star Games, 9 Super Bowls, 14 Rose Bowls, 8 Olympic Games and 24 NCAA Final Fours. He also hosted the long-running outdoors show The American Sportsman on ABC. Gowdy called all the Olympic Games televised by ABC from 1964 to 1988 with Roone Arledge's sports department at ABC.
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