In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we’ll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.
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I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
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Roone Arledge (20)
Birth: | 8th July, 1931 |
Death: | 5th December, 2002 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Journalist |
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Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. 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.
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