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Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.


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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