Roone Arledge

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Lowell Bergman

Lowell Bergman on working for Roone Arledge at ABC News

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David Brinkley

David Brinkley on anchoring This Week with David Brinkley

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Connie Chung

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

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Sam Donaldson

Sam Donaldson on crediting Roone Arledge for turning ABC News around

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

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

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

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Hugh Downs

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

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Hugh Downs on working with Roone Arledge

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Dick Ebersol

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

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Dick Ebersol on the partnership of Jim McKay and Roone Arledge

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

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

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Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge and the 1972 Munich Olympics

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Dick Ebersol on moving from ABC to NBC

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Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge

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

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Frank Gifford

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

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

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

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Leonard H. Goldenson

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

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

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Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football

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Leonard H. Goldenson on thoughts on colleagues - Roone Arledge

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Julian Goodman

Julian Goodman on Roone Arledge

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Curt Gowdy

Curt Gowdy on how Ed Scherick and Roone Arledge transformed sports

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Curt Gowdy on his respect for Roone Arledge

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Curt Gowdy on preparing to cover hockey for the Olympics

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Herb Granath

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

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

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Herb Granath on starting a sports network with Roone Arledge

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

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

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Monty Hall

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

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Herb Jellinek

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

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Buz Kohan

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

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

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Ted Koppel

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

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Ted Koppel on a cautionary tale about how networks operate

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

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Jim McKay

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

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

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Jim McKay on the talents of producer Roone Arledge

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Al Michaels

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

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Don Mischer

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

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Thomas W. Moore

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

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

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

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Don Ohlmeyer

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

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

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

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Don Ohlmeyer on negotiation lessons learned from Roone Arledge

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

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Don Ohlmeyer on Battle of the Network Stars

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

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Frederick S. Pierce

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

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Sterling Quinlan

Sterling "Red" Quinlan on working with Roone Arledge

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Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera on his relationship with Roone Arledge

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Marlene Sanders

Marlene Sanders on working with Bill Sheehan and Roone Arledge

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Edgar J. Scherick

Edgar Scherick on making Roone Arledge the producer of NCAA football

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Edgar Scherick on hiring Roone Arledge to work for his company

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Reese Schonfeld

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

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Chet Simmons

Chet Simmons on working with Roone Arledge

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Howard K. Smith

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

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Tony Verna

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

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Barbara Walters

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

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Barbara Walters on working with Roone Arledge

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Av Westin

Av Westin on Roone Arledge's impact on ABC News

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

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Av Westin on the creation of 20/20

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

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

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Jeff Zucker

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

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