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 ...
My blog entry today has nothing to do with commercial real estate itself, but rather more to do with why those of us in real estate do what we do and work as hard as we do. The answer is often about ...
What is Roone Arledge's greatest gift to the American viewing public? Let's work up to it. In the first place, if not for Roone Arledge, we would not be assembled here right now. This website would ...
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, ...
In his office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, was feeling a wide range of emotions early yesterday evening in the hours after he learned that Roone Arledge, ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — Roone Arledge was eulogized Monday by many of the broadcasters he made famous in his tenure overseeing ABC News and ABC Sports. They remembered him less for his accomplishments that ...
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 ...
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 ...