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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.
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 ...
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).
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Created by Roone Arledge, [2] the program featured Ted Koppel as its main anchor from March 1980 until his retirement in November 2005. Its ongoing rotating anchors are Byron Pitts and Juju Chang . Nightline airs weeknights from 12:37 to 1:07 a.m., Eastern Time , after Jimmy Kimmel Live! , which had served as the program's lead-out from 2003 to ...
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.
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.
ABC had used Mangione's recordings four years earlier during their coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics, and then-ABC Sports president Roone Arledge asked the musician to create the theme song for the Winter games. [11] Mangione also performed the song live at the Closing Ceremonies on February 24. [12]