Roone Arledge
Production · Executive Producer · Producer · Creator
Active 1948–present · Awards: Peabody Awards, Disney Legends, Sports Lifetime Achievement Award, International Emmy Founders Award, Trustees Award, Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, Silver Olympic Order
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…
Filmography
America This Morning — CreatorOur World — CreatorPrimetime: Basic Instincts — CreatorPrimetime: The Outsiders — CreatorPrime Time LIVE (1989) — CreatorThis Week (1981) — CreatorNightline (1980) — CreatorWide World of Sports: 1970's A Decade in Review (1979) — Executive Producer20/20 (1978) — Producer · CreatorWide World of Sports 15th Anniversary Special (1976) — Executive ProducerSaturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (1975) — Executive ProducerFrank Sinatra: The Main Event (1974) — ProducerBobby Riggs vs. Billie Jean King: Tennis Battle of the Sexes (1973) — Executive ProducerThe Odd Couple (1970) — Roone ArledgeMonday Night Football (1970) — CreatorWorld News Tonight with David Muir (1948) — Creator