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ABC. Release. April 29, 1961. ( 1961-04-29) –. 1997. ( 1997) ABC's Wide World of Sports is an American sports anthology television program that aired on ABC from April 29, 1961, to 1997, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay, with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be used for general sports ...
Wide World of Sports was the first U.S. television program to air coverage of – among events – Wimbledon (1961), the Indianapolis 500 (highlights starting in 1961; a longer-form version in 1965), the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (1962), the Daytona 500 (1962), the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1962), the Monaco Grand Prix (1962 ...
Jim McKay. James Kenneth McManus (September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008), better known professionally as Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist . McKay was best known for hosting ABC 's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998). His introduction for that program has passed into American pop culture, in which viewers were reminded of the ...
Meanwhile, having retired to his quiet, private life in Slovenia, Bogataj was unaware of his celebrity, and so was surprised to be asked to attend the 20th anniversary celebration for Wide World of Sports in 1981. He received the loudest ovation of any athlete introduced at the gala, and attendees such as Muhammad Ali asked him for his autograph.
1942–1943. Curtis Edward Gowdy (July 31, 1919 – February 20, 2006) was an American sportscaster. He called Boston Red Sox games on radio and TV for 15 years, and then covered many nationally televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports and ABC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bob Beattie [6] Jon Beekhuis. Hobie Billingsley. Larry Birleffi [7] Don Blasingame. Ralph Boston. Bobby Bragan. Tim Brant. Charlie Brockman.
Episodes also began with a remake of the network's iconic Wide World of Sports introduction. The 2019 "extreme miniature golf" competition Holey Moley also used 1970s replica ABC Sports jackets on its lead hosts, ESPN's Joe Tessitore and former Fox NFL Sunday prognosticator Rob Riggle, and guest commentators. Tessitore commented that its use ...
ABC Olympic broadcasts. The title card for the ABC Olympic Games coverage. Note the integration of the network logo into the Olympic symbol. The Olympic Games aired in the United States on the broadcast network ABC during the 1960s to the 1980s. ABC first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, [1] and the Summer Olympic Games in 1968. [2]