Roone Arledge

Lowell Bergman on working for Roone Arledge at ABC News

David Brinkley on anchoring This Week with David Brinkley

Connie Chung on Roone Arledge hiring her to come to ABC - where Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer were

Sam Donaldson on crediting Roone Arledge for turning ABC News around

Sam Donaldson on Roone Arledge's showmanship and the origin of Nightline

Sam Donaldson on working with Roone Arledge and Arledge's legacy

Sam Donaldson on Roone Arledge backing him up when the White House was upset with Donaldson's questioning 

Hugh Downs on the origin of 20/20 (contd.) and Roone Arledge's improvements to the show (including asking Downs to anchor the program)

Hugh Downs on working with Roone Arledge

Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge's talents - the key to sports on television is storytelling

Dick Ebersol on the partnership of Jim McKay and Roone Arledge

Dick Ebersol on developing his relationship with Roone Arledge; on Arledge's contributions to sports

Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge assembling his broadcast team at ABC Sports

Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge and the 1972 Munich Olympics

Dick Ebersol on moving from ABC to NBC

Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge

Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge asking him to come be his number two at ABC

Frank Gifford on discussions he had with Roone Arledge about Monday Night Football

Frank Gifford on Roone Arledge's departure from Monday Night Football

Frank Gifford on memories of Roone Arledge, Jim McKay and Peter Jennings covering the terrorist attack in Munich at the 1972 Olympics

Leonard H. Goldenson on Roone Arledge's impact on ABC and sports

Leonard H. Goldenson on putting Roone Arledge in charge of news

Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football

Leonard H. Goldenson on thoughts on colleagues - Roone Arledge

Julian Goodman on Roone Arledge

Curt Gowdy on how Ed Scherick and Roone Arledge transformed sports

Curt Gowdy on his respect for Roone Arledge 

Curt Gowdy on preparing to cover hockey for the Olympics

Herb Granath on how Roone Arledge took a chance on hiring Howard Cosell for TV

Herb Granath on working with Roone Arledge at ABC Sports during the heyday of Monday Night Football

Herb Granath on starting a sports network with Roone Arledge

Herb Granath on Roone Arledge's involvement with news coverage of The Munich Massacre

Herb Granath on working with Roone Arledge and Bill Baker to create a competitive news network

Monty Hall on Roone Arledge wanting him to be the sports announcer for the Wembley Cup (soccer championship)

Herb Jellinek on various people with whom he's worked in his career: Roone Arledge

Buz Kohan on working on Hi, Mom, produced by Roone Arledge

Buz Kohan on working with the Muppets and being introduced to Jim Henson by Roone Arledge

Ted Koppel on working for Roone Arledge and Koppel's initial doubts about Arledge's abilities

Ted Koppel on a cautionary tale about how networks operate

Ted Koppel on America Held Hostag e becoming ABC News Nightline contd.

Jim McKay on the cancellation of The Real McCay, and on his transitioning into sports at the behest of Roone Arledge at Wide World of Sports

Jim McKay on why he wanted to do ABC's Wide World of Sports and impressions of the producer Roone Arledge

Jim McKay on the talents of producer Roone Arledge

Al Michaels on ABC's role as the pre-eminent sports network by the mid-1970s, headed by Roone Arledge

Don Mischer on getting 2 job offers: one for Saturday Night Live, one for a new show with Howard Cosell and Roone Arledge

Thomas Moore on the genesis of ABC's Wide World of Sports

Thomas Moore on the genesis of ABC's Monday Night Football

Thomas Moore on ABC's acquisition of the Olympic games in the 1960s and 70s

Don Ohlmeyer on mentor Roone Arledge telling him he respected how Ohlmeyer reacted under pressure

Don Ohlmeyer on Roone Arledge at The 1968 Olympics, Arledge's move from sports to news, and what he taught his mentees

Don Ohlmeyer on the format of Wide World of Sports  and how it evolved

Don Ohlmeyer on negotiation lessons learned from Roone Arledge

Don Ohlmeyer on Jim McKay's amazing job covering the 1972 Munich Olympics

Don Ohlmeyer on Battle of the Network Stars

Don Ohlmeyer on leaving ABC in 1977 - mentor Roone Arledge was taking over news

Frederick S. Pierce on Roone Arledge's contributions to ABC News

Sterling "Red" Quinlan on working with Roone Arledge

Geraldo Rivera on his relationship with Roone Arledge

Marlene Sanders on working with Bill Sheehan and Roone Arledge

Edgar Scherick on hiring Roone Arledge to work for his company

Edgar Scherick on making Roone Arledge the producer of NCAA football

Reese Schonfeld on how the higher-ups at network news like Roone Arledge regarded CNN, and on the impact CNN had on network news

Chet Simmons on working with Roone Arledge

Howard K. Smith on not having a great relationship with Roone Arledge at ABC News

Tony Verna on directing the 1984 Summer Olympics and athletes promoting sponsorship

Barbara Walters on Roone Arledge's hiring of Hugh Downs on 20/20

Barbara Walters on working with Roone Arledge

Av Westin on Roone Arledge's impact on ABC News

Av Westin on the "three anchor" version of World News Tonight

Av Westin on the creation of 20/20

Av Westin on the eighteen page memo that resulted in his termination at ABC News

Av Westin on changes made by Roone Arledge during Westin's tenure at ABC News

Jeff Zucker on his admiration for Executive Roone Arledge's work during the 1984 Olympics