TV & VIDEO - Aug. 18, 1988

ESPN, the all-sports cable subsidiary of Capital Cities/ABC Inc., named Roger L. Werner, executive vice president of ABC Television Network, president and chief executive officerWednesday. Werner succeeds J. William Grimes, who has resigned to become president of Univision Holdings Inc., the nation’s largest Spanish-language communications company. Werner, 38, spent six years at ESPN, the last three as executive vice president, before moving to ABC last March. Since Grimes took the helm at ESPN in 1982, the cable outlet has more than doubled its subscriber base to almost 50 million homes nationwide and upped its advertiser base from 200 to 700, a spokesman said.