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...
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Curt Gowdy (section Relationship with Roone Arledge)
called all the Olympic Games televised by ABC from 1964 to 1988 with Roone Arledge's sports department at ABC. In the mid-1970s, Gowdy was host and producer...
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ABC News (section Roone Arledge)
Sports, Roone Arledge as president of ABC News in 1977, ABC invested the resources to make it a significant source of news content. Arledge, known for...
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and, after 1961, was spun off into its own independent division. When Roone Arledge came to ABC Sports as a producer of NCAA football games in 1960, the...
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Circleville, Ohio Roone Arledge (1931–2002), an American sports broadcaster This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Arledge. If an internal...
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January 17, 1976, hosted by Howard Cosell and executive-produced by Roone Arledge. The series ran for 18 episodes before being cancelled. The show was...
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broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the program was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes in that it features...
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formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main anchor from March 1980...
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really took it personally." In 1970, ABC executive producer for sports Roone Arledge hired Cosell to be a commentator for Monday Night Football (MNF), the...
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Scherick through his company Sports Programs, Inc. and produced by a young Roone Arledge. The series featured a different sporting event each broadcast. ABC...
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brought in Dick Ebersol – a protégé of legendary ABC Sports president Roone Arledge – to develop a 90-minute late-night variety show. Dick Ebersol's first...
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1969. She would later marry and divorce American television executive Roone Arledge. Fowler was chosen as Alabama's Junior Miss for 1966. In 1967, she was...
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Olympics when he temporarily dropped out of Yale University to join Roone Arledge and ABC Sports as television's first-ever Olympic researcher. In 1974...
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Animation David Stollery, Television & Film Ginny Tyler, Television & Film Roone Arledge, Television Art Babbitt, Animation Carl Bongirno, Imagineering Marge...
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Face of Network News. Chicago: Bonus Books. ISBN 1-56625-194-X. Arledge, Roone (2003). Roone: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019733-1. Bliss...
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at Georgetown Law School. Koppel's decision upset ABC News president Roone Arledge, who demoted Koppel from news anchor when he returned to the network...
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After Gordon and Wallau's evidence was presented to ABC executive Roone Arledge, the United States Championship tournament was cancelled. The scandal...
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Sports Programs, Inc. After selling his company to ABC, he hired a young Roone Arledge to produce the show. The series' April 29, 1961, debut telecast featured...
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Always the perennial third in the national ratings, ABC News president Roone Arledge reformatted the program, relaunching it as World News Tonight in July...
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Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News president Roone Arledge to be a co-anchor for ABC's World News Tonight newscast in 1978. In...
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called his station and relayed the information. ABC News president Roone Arledge received word of the death during the last few moments of a national...
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the case. They were assigned to the story after ABC News president Roone Arledge read a tiny story in the newspaper that said police had ruled out any...
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15-minute children's program, Ask the Camera, which was directed by Roone Arledge. She also started producing for TV host Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker)...
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Dame in 1967. Ohlmeyer began his career with ABC Sports. A disciple of Roone Arledge, he worked on Wide World of Sports, was the first hired producer of...
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notable moment was in 1970, when the head of ABC's televised sports, Roone Arledge, made sure that Monday Night Football's inaugural game on September...
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Warnes, Donna Summer, and Rick James. In 1984, ABC Sports president Roone Arledge asked Denver to compose and sing the theme song for the 1984 Winter...
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titled Life at the Top: New York's Exceptional Apartment Buildings. Roone Arledge Brooke Astor Armand Phillip Bartos William F. Buckley Jr. and Patricia...
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CBS regained the radio rights from NBC). Ironically, in 1970 ABC's Roone Arledge had asked via telephone about Buck's interests in becoming the first...
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at Ramsauer's Central Park memorial service. In October 1985, ABC's Roone Arledge refused to air a report done by Sylvia Chase for 20/20 on the relationship...
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politician, diplomat, and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) Roone Arledge (Columbia, 1952): former President of ABC News and Sports; first producer...
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