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Career. Contacts he made at DuMont paid off with a stage manager's job at NBC's New York City station, WRCA (later WNBC ). One of his assignments there was to help produce a children's puppet show hosted by Shari Lewis. In 1958, the program won a New York City Emmy award . Even with that success, Arledge wanted to tinker with programming ideas.
Roone Arledge: Hall of Fame Tribute. “I’ve been kind of an interesting character because I’ve been doing a number of different things,” says Roone Arledge, the president of ABC News, as well as the former president of ABC Sports, the creator and executive producer of ABC's Wide World of Sports, The American Sportsman, and NFL Monday ...
Dec 6, 2002 · During a ceremony in September, when Mr. Arledge was awarded the first lifetime- achievement Emmy Award, his 37th Emmy over all, Don Hewitt, the creator of the CBS News program ''60 Minutes...
Dec 6, 2002 · Roone Arledge, chairman and longtime president of ABC News, died at the age of 71 in New York City Thursday of complications from cancer.
Dec 6, 2002 · NEW YORK — Roone Arledge, one of the most influential executives in television history who changed both the style and content of the medium perhaps more than anyone else, died yesterday at a...
Dec 6, 2002 · Times Staff Writer. Roone Arledge, who transformed American television by infusing dramatic story lines, star personalities and vivid graphic presentations into the disparate realms of news and...
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Dec 5, 2002 · During a ceremony in September 2002, when Mr. Arledge was awarded the first Emmy for lifetime achievement, his 37th Emmy overall, Don Hewitt, the creator of the CBS News program ``60 Minutes...
