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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.
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 ...
At the heart of the story is John Magaro's Geoffrey Mason, then a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard ...
Following the events of the day, Mason's superior Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) went on to become President of ABC News from 1977-1998. He's also the creator of ongoing programs vital to the ABC ...
When Roone Arledge, who was presiding over ABC's telecast of Monday Night Football in his capacity as its executive producer, received word of Lennon's death, a game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins was tied with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter and the Patriots were driving toward the potential winning score.
In 1978, when Roone Arledge was looking to revamp ABC's nightly news broadcast into World News Tonight, he remembered Robinson from a 60 Minutes interview, and hired him to be a part of his new three-anchor format.
In "September 5," ABC Sports executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard, far left), addresses his team as they are about to use then-new satellite technology to go from broadcasting the 1972 Munich ...