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Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. (July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002) was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s.
Dec 5, 2002 · Roone Arledge, the television industry executive and producer whose creativity, leadership and technical innovations revolutionized the presentation of both news and sports on television, died...
Dec 6, 2002 · Roone Arledge, the television industry executive and producer whose creativity, leadership and technical innovations revolutionized the presentation of both news and sports, died yesterday in...
Roone Arledge was born on July 8, 1931 in Forest Hills, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and 19th Summer Olympic Games (1968). He was married to Gigi Shaw, Ann Fowler and Joan Heise.
Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. crafted the modern link between sports and entertainment, transforming ABC Sports from a financial disaster to the world’s go-to destination for athletics entertainment.
Dec 29, 2002 · In 1977, he began a 20-year stint as president of ABC News, remaking it from the ratings doormat to the network to beat, with programs like ''Nightline'' and ''20/20.'' But...
Dec 6, 2002 · Roone Arledge, who transformed American television by infusing dramatic story lines, star personalities and vivid graphic presentations into the disparate realms of news and sports, died...
