Thomas H. Meeker, president and chief executive officer of Churchill Downs Inc. and president of Triple Crown Productions, today issued the following statement regarding the recent death of Roone ...

On page 30 of Roone Arledge’s new memoir is a memo, part of an ABC pitch to cover NCAA football and written in two hours over a beer on a Sunday afternoon, that amounts to a manifesto for modern ...

Hundreds of broadcasting colleagues, celebrities, and relatives filled St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan today to pay final tribute to a broadcasting pioneer, Roone Arledge. A former president of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE STUBBORN INABILITY to let go of some stories is an occupational ...

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 ...

HarperCollins, 424 pp., $25.95 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Roone Arledge features a large cast of behind-the-scenes characters, about whom it might be said “you had to have been there.” It so happens that I ...

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 ...

Roone Arledge, who transformed American television by infusing dramatic story lines, star personalities and vivid graphic presentations into the disparate realms of news and sports, died Thursday in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. He was famous for it at ABC--not returning your phone calls for months, ...