Roone Arledge, American sportscaster and producer (born 1931)

Roone Arledge

American sports and news broadcasting executive (1931–2002)

Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS,…