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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 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...
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...
Dec 6, 2002 · Roone Arledge, chairman and longtime president of ABC News, died at the age of 71 in New York City Thursday of complications from cancer.
NEW YORK -- Roone Arledge, a pioneering television executive at ABC News and Sports responsible for creating shows from "Monday Night Football'' to "Nightline,'' died...
Roone Arledge, the TV sports visionary who made Monday Night Football a national viewing habit, died Dec. 5 at the age of 71.
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,...
Dec 9, 2002 · A former president of ABC Sports and News, Arledge died last week from cancer. Arledge built ABC's Wide World of Sports into a powerhouse, and ushered in the era of prime-...
Dec 29, 2002 · Julian Rubinstein interviews several ABC television executives and news broadcasters about Roone Arledge, who died in 2002; Arledge changed how sports were televised during his tenure at ABC ...
Dec 6, 2002 · NEW YORK — Roone Arledge, one of the most influential executives in television history who changed both the style and content of the medium perhaps more than anyone else, died yesterday at a...