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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
brought in ****
Ebersol – a protégé of
legendary ABC
Sports president Roone Arledge – to
develop a 90-minute late-night
variety show. **** Ebersol's...
- the
Olympics when he
temporarily dropped out of Yale
University to join
Roone Arledge and ABC
Sports as television's first-ever
Olympic researcher. In...
- wins gold in the
swimming event over a West
German competitor,
president Roone Arledge dramatizes the win by
cutting to his competitor's
reaction and planning...
-
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...
