Roone Arledge (July 8, 1931 - December 5, 2002) was an American sports broadcasting pioneer who was chairman of ABC News from 1977 until his death, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main broadcasting stations, NBC and CBS, in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Wikipedia
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O n 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 television. "Heretofore," he wrote, "television has done nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/n_8682/
Arguably the most important individual in the development of televised sports , as the longtime president of ABC Sports. Arledge's innovations and vision helped make TV sports what it is today. Most known for launching the long running shows Monday Nigh www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Roone+Arledge
In 1994, Sports Illustrated named Roone Arledge , longtime executive producer of ABC Sports, the third most important person in the sports world since SI 's inception in 1954. Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan beat him out. Arledge, who died Thursday at a www.slate.com/id/2075179