Roone Arledge, executive producer for ABC-TV sports and news, holds an armful of Emmys at the 28th annual Emmy Awards show as footbal star O.J. Simpson looks on in this May 18, 1976 file photo in Los Angeles. Arledge, a pioneering television executive at ABC News and Sports responsible for creating shows from ``Monday Night Football'' to ``Nightline,'' died Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, an ABC News spokesman said. He was 71.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)