Roone Arledge Quotations

He brought us instant stature, instant integrity, instant quality that ... defined the early struggling days of ABC News.

So you have a built-in dilemma. Do you want to go after older people who watch news or younger people who watch ABC entertainment shows.

If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.

Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.

You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.