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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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Academy Award nomination for Best
Original Screenplay.
Peter Sarsgaard as
Roone Arledge, the
president of ABC
Sports John
Magaro as
Geoffrey Mason, the...
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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...
- 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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productions until he
returned to
major cinema in 1988 as a cop in Off Limits, as
Roone Dimmick in Big Business, and the
father of
Keanu Reeves'
character in The...
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Gowdy called all the
Olympic Games televised by ABC from 1964 to 1988 with
Roone Arledge's
sports department at ABC. In the mid-1970s,
Gowdy was host and...
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Network News. Chicago:
Bonus Books. ISBN 1-56625-194-X. Arledge,
Roone (2003).
Roone: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019733-1. Bliss, Edward...
