Peter – That reminds me of my Dad’s response to the hysteria over Roone Arledge’s invention of The Wide World of Sports. At the time my Dad wrote me in an e-mail:

“Only now do I realize what a genius Roone Arledge was. Who else could have figured out that viewers would like to see more sports. As you know, ABC had been considering The Poetry Hour until Arledge stepped in with his groundbreaking sports idea.”