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 ...

Former ABC News president Roone Arledge, one of the most influential and innovative executives in television history, died Thursday at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He was 71 ...

GROVEPORT — The Lancaster girls’ basketball team was coming off a pair of heartbreaking losses by a combined seven points against Newark and Teays Valley, and on Friday, Jan. 23, it looked as if 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As he was dying of the cancer that had returned after eight years, Roone Arledge worked on the manuscript of his memoir every day, succumbing to the illness last December, at age 71. Although he ...

During his distinguished career spanning four decades, Arledge helped transform the way news and sporting events are covered and watched around the world. Arledge, who first served as president of 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, ...

Roone Arledge, the ABC executive largely responsible for turning sports and news into primetime entertainment, died in New York Thursday at age 71 from prostate cancer, according to a statement by the ...