Roone Arledge
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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'
Arledge in 1978
Arledge in 1968
Arledge in the 1970s
ABC World News Tonight
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ABC World News Tonight is the flagship daily evening television news program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States. It is currentl
Roone Arledge
…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, Nightline and 20/20. Arledge was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, the son of Gertrude (Stritmater) and Roone Pinckney Arledge, an attorney…
Charles Gibson anchored World News Tonight, later World News, from 2006 to 2009.
President Barack Obama with Gibson in the East Room of the White House during ABC News's Prescription for America "town-hall"-style conversation on health care, June 24, 2009.
Diane Sawyer was the anchor of World News from 2009 to 2014.
Advertisement for World News (left) outside of Times Square Studios in 2010