# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roone-arledge
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:27:18.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roone-arledge"
name: "Roone Arledge"
slug: "roone-arledge"
description: "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 other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s. He created many programs still airing today, such as Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline and 20/20."
tagline: "American sports and news broadcasting pioneer (1931-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roone_Arledge_1978.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-07-08"
deathDate: "2002-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.77
  momentum:             0.2470088768815129
  historical:           7.49558
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035141/"
    handle:    "nm0035141"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone_Arledge"
    title: "Roone Arledge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3128961"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump