
Roone Arledge knew television. He brought state-of-the-art technologies to sports programming, including instant replay, slow motion, and advanced graphics . He put Howard Cosell on the air. At the Munich Olympics in 1972, he produced for a world audience the first live coverage of a terror attack, when the Palestinian Black September Movement murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
As president of ABC News, he turned a third-place network into number one, creating such programs as Nightline, World News Tonight, and 20/20.
We remember a true American visionary who transformed the television industry.
Guests:
Robert Zelnick, chair of the journalism department, Boston University
Bob Thompson, professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University
Charles Pierce, the Boston Globe













