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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.
James Kenneth McManus (September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008), better known professionally as Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist.. McKay was best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998).
Roone Arledge: 1977–1997 In 1977, ABC made Arledge president of the then low-rated network news division, all while Arledge retained control of the Sports Division. ABC News had at the time been in the middle of blunders such as the disastrous pairing of Barbara Walters with Harry Reasoner at the desk of the network's evening news.
Yes. Roone Arledge went on to become a legend at ABC, ultimately overseeing the network's news division before he died in 2002 at age 71. Geoffrey Mason has won dozens of Emmys for his work in ...
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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 ...
The bloodless procedural “September 5” starts with a scene of Arledge’s ratings genius at work as he orders his crew to cut away from a triumphant winner to their devastated rival.
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.