One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
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His real monument is 60 Minutes . He is truly an innovator in this business. I still believe Don deserves the credit for it the idea of the news magazine format it is an innovative format no one had done before. It's been copied all over the world, including several times by us. He's been a leader in our industry. He has inspired all sorts of people.Roone Arledge
A lot of people told me that the job of making ABC News competitive was so difficult and so long that it wasn't worth the trouble.
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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.
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I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.
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But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.
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While there seems to be a major commitment now, historically there hasn't been. It's not an automatic thing where they say we gotta cover that.
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