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Roone Arledge

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If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.


— Roone Arledge


#show #you

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.


— Roone Arledge


#about #aim #am #certain #cosmetic

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.


— Roone Arledge


#affects #care #congress #directly #most

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.


— Roone Arledge


#also #care #daily #diplomats #must

People essentially like local news better than network news.


— Roone Arledge


#essentially #like #local #local news #network

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.


— Roone Arledge


#be true #covering #current #difference #future






About Roone Arledge






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In 2007 The Walt Disney Company posthumously named Arledge a Disney Legend for his contributions to ABC News and ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC) both (along with the ABC Network) now owned by Disney. But the WRCA weatherman Pat Hernon who hosted the pilot episode of "For Men Only" began showing the kinescope to people around New York City who might want the program. S.

(July 8 1931 – December 5 2002) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer 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. He created many programs still airing today such as Monday Night Football ABC World News Primetime Nightline and 20/20.

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