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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

 
 

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