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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...
- seen by "Hanrahan", a
pessimistic man of
Irish descent. "'We'll all be
rooned', said Hanrahan"—an
adage extracted from the poem—has
entered the Australian...
- to
January 17, 1976,
hosted by
Howard Cosell and executive-produced by
Roone Arledge. The
series ran for 18
episodes before being cancelled. The show...
- been
broadcast on ABC
since June 6, 1978.
Created by ABC News
executive Roone Arledge, the
program was
designed similarly to CBS's 60
Minutes in that...
- 13, 2024, and will
expand wide on
January 17, 2025.
Peter Sarsgaard as
Roone Arledge John
Magaro as
Geoffrey Mason, who is in
charge of the
control room...
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profits for ABC overall. With the
appointment of the
president of ABC Sports,
Roone Arledge as
president of ABC News in 1977, ABC
invested the
resources to...
- Open, and the
Indianapolis 500. McKay's son, Sean McM****, a protégé of
Roone Arledge, is the
former chairman of CBS Sports.
McKay was born in Philadelphia...
- and,
after 1961, was spun off into its own
independent division. When
Roone Arledge came to ABC
Sports as a
producer of NCAA
football games in 1960...
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Weiss called his
station and rela**** the information. ABC News
president Roone Arledge received word of Lennon's
death during the last few
moments of a...
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Another notable moment was in 1970, when the head of ABC's
televised sports,
Roone Arledge, made sure that
Monday Night Football's
inaugural game on September...
