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 ...

NEW YORK -- Roone Arledge, a pioneering television executive at ABC News and Sports responsible for creating shows from "Monday Night Football'' to "Nightline,'' died Thursday. He was 71. Roone ...

During his distinguished career spanning four decades, Arledge helped transform the way news and sporting events are covered and watched around the world. Arledge, who first served as president of ABC ...

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 ...

As he was dying of the cancer that had returned after eight years, Roone Arledge worked on the manuscript of his memoir every day, succumbing to the illness last December, at age 71. Although he ...