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Roone Arledge
Roone Arledge (Television sports. Born, Forest Hills, NY, July 8, 1931; died, New York, NY, Dec. 5, 2002.) As the originator of “Wide World of Sports” and Monday Night Football for ABC-TV Sports, Roone Pinckney Arledge was a formative figure in the development of sports television. After graduating from Columbia in 1953, Arledge joined the DuMont […]