Sports Broadcasting Pioneer Roone Arledge Dies NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roone Arledge, a pioneer of American television who revolutionized sports broadcasting, died on Thursday, the ABC television network said. Arledge, 71, the chairman of ABC News, died of complications from cancer, the network said. Arledge became chairman of ABC News in 1997. He was a former president of ABC News and ABC Sports.
