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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...