Roone Arledge, the TV sports visionary who made "Monday Night Football" a national viewing habit, and turned the earnest but ancient Olympic Games into a worldwide television spectacular, died ...
NEW YORK -- Roone Arledge, a pioneering television executive at ABC News and Sports responsible for creating shows from "Monday Night Football'' to "Nightline,'' died Thursday. He was 71. Roone ...
In his office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, was feeling a wide range of emotions early yesterday evening in the hours after he learned that Roone Arledge, ...
On page 30 of Roone Arledge’s new memoir is a memo, part of an ABC pitch to cover NCAA football and written in two hours over a beer on a Sunday afternoon, that amounts to a manifesto for modern ...
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 Thursday in ...
As the creative force behind America's ABC Sports, Roone Arledge, who has died aged 71 of cancer, was arguably the greatest of all television sports producers, devising coverage that propelled the ...
If you can judge a person's life by who shows up at his funeral, TV broadcast pioneer Roone Arledge had quite a life. An impressive Who's Who of media -- longtime peers and proteges at homeport ABC ...
When Roone Arledge and his young assistant, Dick Ebersol, finally left the ABC studios in Munich, West Germany, on the morning of Sept. 5, 1972, the only people still left inside were janitors, ...
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