Roone Arledge
Roone Arledge
Roone Pinckney Arledge, Jr.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. He created many programs still airing today, such as Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight, Primetime, Nightline and 20/20...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 July 1931
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
So you have a built-in dilemma. Do you want to go after older people who watch news or younger people who watch ABC entertainment shows.
A lot of people told me that the job of making ABC News competitive was so difficult and so long that it wasn't worth the trouble.
He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggling days of ABC News.