Sports


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Sports describes Programs offering coverage of spectator games and events, and related topics.

Highlights
Jim McKay on hosting the Summer Olympics on CBS, which initially were ad-libbed
03:14
Al Michaels on how he came up with "Do you believe in miracles?" when covering the 1980 Olympics
04:41
Dick Ebersol on how Muhammed Ali came to be involved with the Atlanta Olympics
05:34
Bob Costas on how he prepares for a sportscast; on how he calls a game
04:24
Don Ohlmeyer on the format of Wide World of Sports  and how it evolved
06:03
Curt Gowdy on covering 16 World Series
09:35
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Berle Adams

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Berle Adams on signing Arnold Palmer as a client and creating the show Challenge Golf
02:19
Berle Adams on selling professional wrestling to local Los Angeles television stations
02:39
Berle Adams on signing the American Football League as an MCA client
04:26

Ray Aghayan

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Ray Aghayan on designing for the 1984 Olympics
04:24

Steve Allen

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Steve Allen on announcing wrestling for ABC television
03:22

Bob Banner

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Bob Banner on directing televised boxing matches in Chicago early in his career
05:25

Ted Bergmann

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Ted Bergmann on the importance of sports to DuMont
10:48

Frank Biondo

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Frank Biondo on being a Chapman camera operator for hockey games at the old Madison Square Garden
00:56

George Bodenheimer

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George Bodenheimer on ESPN's business model
02:04
George Bodenheimer on the culture of ESPN
01:03
George Bodenheimer on Chet Simmons' televising the NFL draft on ESPN
01:35
George Bodenheimer on televising the NCAA Basketball Tournament
01:27
George Bodenheimer on ESPN televising the America's Cup sailing event for the first time in 1987
02:06
George Bodenheimer on the reasoning behind launching ESPN2
06:52
George Bodenheimer on the launch of the ESPY Awards
00:46
George Bodenheimer on Monday Night Football and its legacy for ESPN since moving there from ABC
02:06
George Bodenheimer on ESPN's flagship program, SportsCenter
04:05

Garrett Brown

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Garrett Brown on inventing the Skycam, often used for sporting events
07:27

Frances Buss Buch

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Frances Buss Buch on directing sports events on early television (boxing, baseball)
04:09

Ken Burns

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Ken Burns on his documentary series Baseball, and his career-long exploration of race in America
06:55

Robert Caminiti

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Robert Caminiti on working on Wimbledon for NBC Sports
04:05

Bill Conti

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Bill Conti on composing for sports programs and the New York City Marathon
05:54

Bob Costas

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Bob Costas on how he prepares for a sportscast; on how he calls a game
04:24
Bob Costas on the first time he served as prime-time host of the Olympics - 1992 in Barcelona; on how he approaches hosting
05:23
Bob Costas on covering the Olympics and why it's so captivating, and on the tone of the Games and the Centennial Park bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
09:15
Bob Costas on the 2000 Sydney Olympics
01:34
Bob Costas on the 2004 Athens Olympics
00:42
Bob Costas on the response he gets to his Olympic coverage and on the dynamics of international sports
05:53
Bob Costas on hosting On the Record with Bob Costas
04:48

Robert Dickinson

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Robert Dickinson on working with producer/director Don Mischer on the Salt Lake City and Atlanta Olympics
05:35

Louis Dorfsman

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Louis Dorfsman on dealing with the higher ups at CBS including Frank Stanton, William S. Paley, and James T. Aubrey and creating a book about football on CBS
09:33

Bob Doyle

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Bob Doyle on directing some of ABC's earliest programming, including sporting events
05:10
Bob Doyle on directing NFL Football games and the Metropolitan Opera
04:36
Bob Doyle on becoming ABC's director of all remote events, including sports events
06:15

Dick Ebersol

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Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge assembling his broadcast team at ABC Sports
09:23
Dick Ebersol on the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France
10:46
Dick Ebersol on the 1972 Munich Olympics
23:56
Dick Ebersol on how Muhammed Ali came to be involved with the Atlanta Olympics
05:34
Dick Ebersol on making clear to his employees at NBC that sports was still a passion
04:48
Dick Ebersol on the Beijing Olympics  
15:05

Dick Enberg

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Dick Enberg on his radio work in Los Angeles and working as a sports announcer at KTTV and KTLA and the first time he broadcast on television
05:12
Dick Enberg on calling boxing matches early in his career for KTLA
04:00
Dick Enberg on calling horse races early in his career
03:43
Dick Enberg on doing play-by-play for the Los Angeles Rams
03:23
Dick Enberg on doing play-by-play for UCLA football
02:05
Dick Enberg on what he is imparting to the listener when announcing play-by-play for baseball
03:37
Dick Enberg on calling a game by himself as opposed to working with others in the announcing booth
03:46
Dick Enberg on his broadcasting partner of several years, Don Drysdale 
01:31
Dick Enberg on joining NBC Sports in 1975 due to his calling of syndicated basketball games
04:21
Dick Enberg on the state of NBC Sports when he joined as opposed to the other networks
00:55
Dick Enberg on his partners in announcing NCAA basketball for NBC
03:08
Dick Enberg on announcing football games with Merlin Olsen on NBC
01:56
Dick Enberg on calling tennis matches, including Wimbledon, for NBC
07:04
Dick Enberg on calling the Olympics
02:13
Dick Enberg on calling the 1982 World Series  and his disappointment over not being NBC's lead announcer for the 1983 World Series
02:59
Dick Enberg on calling games for the San Diego Padres 
02:02
Dick Enberg on the challenges of calling golf matches
06:39
Dick Enberg on announcing for the 1988 Olympics  in Seoul, South Korea and various other Olympics
02:45
Dick Enberg on covering tennis for ESPN in 2004
01:25

Ray Forrest

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Ray Forrest on working on an early TV broadcast of a baseball game; on horse races and hockey games
05:19
Ray Forrest on NBC newscaster Paul Alley wanting to do color commentary for a boxing game
02:43
Ray Forrest on the difficulties of parking the remote TV trucks when out on assignments
01:14
Ray Forrest on introducing a Joe Louis fight on The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
00:44

Dennis Franz

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Dennis Franz on working on Bay City Blues
02:50

Michael Fuchs

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Michael Fuchs on HBO Sports programming and HBO post-his departure
05:32

Frank Gifford

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Frank Gifford on his role on Monday Night Football and his rapport with his co-stars
07:22
Frank Gifford on securing an exclusive pre-game interview for CBS with Vince Lombardi before the first Super Bowl in 1967
04:42
Frank Gifford on being part of the CBS broadcast team for the first Super Bowl in 1967
04:42
Frank Gifford on how human interest sports reporting affected broadcasting for Monday Night Football
02:16
Frank Gifford on the changes made to the Monday Night Football broadcast team; on memorable moments and his departure from the show
12:50
Frank Gifford on working on Wide World of Sports and memories of the terrorist attack in Munich at the 1972 Olympics
04:00

Leonard H. Goldenson

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Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football
01:40

Curt Gowdy

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Curt Gowdy on Yankee player Joe DiMaggio when he first started announcing for the Yankees
00:52
Curt Gowdy on his big break as announcer for the New York Yankees
04:26
Curt Gowdy on Ted Willams last game
02:58
Curt Gowdy on Joe DiMaggio's comeback at the '49 World Series
01:29
Curt Gowdy on the 1964 and 1968 Olympic games and the importance of satellite feeds
04:10
Sportscaster Curt Gowdy on the first Super Bowl, broadcast by both NBC and CBS
01:55
Sportscaster Curt Gowdy on the some of the Super Bowl games he covered
06:18
Curt Gowdy on covering 16 World Series
09:35
Curt Gowdy on having one of the most recognizable voices in all of broadcasting
00:44
Curt Gowdy on the evolution of sports broadcasting
01:42

Herb Granath

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Herb Granath on ABC being the network of the Olympics
01:15
Herb Granath on the "all marketing program" he started with Monday Night Football and the success of the program
16:18
Herb Granath on his recollections of ABC's Wide World of Sports
03:09
Herb Granath on working on Monday Night Football and creating a special sales unit focused on selling sports programming
01:59
Herb Granath on the birth of ESPN
17:53
Herb Granath on the growth of ESPN and the launch of ESPN 2
17:53

Hal Gurnee

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Hal Gurnee on early sports broadcasts on television
01:24

Dwight Hemion

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Dwight Hemion on his first jobs, assistant directing and directing sports telecasts for ABC
07:17
Dwight Hemion on directing early live boxing telecasts and on how he came to direct The Steve Allen Show and Tonight
02:53

Danette Herman

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Danette Herman on talent coordinating for three Olympics
05:20

Lee Holdridge

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Lee Holdridge on scoring films about the Olympics
04:52

Stanley Hubbard

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Stanley Hubbard on KSTP's ratings in the '50s and wrestling on the station
01:55

Kay Koplovitz

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Kay Koplovitz on how HBO's Thrilla from Manila changed television history 
01:52

Gene LeBell

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Gene LeBell on early televised wrestling and boxing matches
03:02

Stewart MacGregory

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Stewart MacGregory on being unit manager for the 1966 World Series
02:36

Jim McKay

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Jim McKay on hosting the Summer Olympics on CBS, which initially were ad-libbed
03:14
Jim McKay on ABC's Wide World of Sports
27:13
Jim McKay on co-hosting the Olympics
31:06
Jim McKay on the transformative role of television in sports history and coverage
02:27
Jim McKay on what has changed most in television and sports tv, and among the athletes themselves
02:06
Jim McKay on covering the Olympics
18:02
Jim McKay on ABC's Wide World of Sports
07:37

Al Michaels

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Al Michaels on how he came up with "Do you believe in miracles?" when covering the 1980 Olympics
04:41
Al Michaels on how the audience reacted to his taking over Frank Gifford's role on Monday Night Football

Sig Mickelson

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Sig Mickelson on his role in the development of sports programming in the early years of CBS television
09:58

Walter C. Miller

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Walter C. Miller on doing some sports directing for NBC
02:11

Don Mischer

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Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Michael Jackson, and how he was asked to produce it
08:00
Don Mischer on Super Bowl 49 - how Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" led him back to the halftime show
01:57
Don Mischer on producing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
13:03

Thomas W. Moore

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Thomas W. Moore on ABC's early sports programming
Thomas W. Moore on Edgar J. Scherick and Roone Arledge's role in bringing sports to ABC
08:47
Thomas W. Moore on various sports shows he programmed at ABC
05:27
Thomas W. Moore on ABC brining various sports like golf to television
03:24

E. Roger Muir

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E. Roger Muir on directing a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game
03:49

Nicolas Noxon

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Nicolas Noxon on the syndicated series, Sports Illustrated
03:19

Don Ohlmeyer

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Don Ohlmeyer on becoming an associate director on The 1968 Olympics
03:06
Don Ohlmeyer on the format of Wide World of Sports  and how it evolved
06:03
Don Ohlmeyer on Monday Night Football  
11:52
Don Ohlmeyer on Jim McKay's amazing job covering the 1972 Munich Olympics
02:01
Don Ohlmeyer on going back to Monday Night Football
03:53

Don Pardo

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Don Pardo on announcing a baseball game in 1946 on television
23:57

Don Pike

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Don Pike on acting as technical director for various Super Bowl telecasts 
01:50

Carroll Pratt

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Carroll Pratt on providing sports sound effects
01:10

Ward Quaal

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Ward Quaal on early sports programming at WGN
04:50

Ed Resnick

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Ed Resnick on shooting the Rose Bowl for KTLA
03:01

Hank Rieger

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Hank Rieger on "the Heidi incident" -- when NBC aired the beginning of Heidi instead of the end of a football game
02:59
Hank Rieger on doing publicity for the 1984 Olympics and challenges he faced covering the Olympics
08:47

Fatima Robinson

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Fatima Robinson on choreographing the halftime shows for Super Bowl XLV (Black Eyed Peas) and Super Bowl LVI (Dr. Dre and West Coast hip-hop All-Stars)
10:37

Howard Rosenberg

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Howard Rosenberg on television sports
03:34

Edgar J. Scherick

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Edgar Scherick on the creation of ABC's Wide World of Sports
04:00
Edgar Scherick on putting together Baseball Game of the Week and packaging other sports shows while at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample
00:53
Edgar Scherick on his role as Director of Sports and Special Events at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and making a deal with ABC President Bob Kintner
01:30
Edgar Scherick on working for CBS as Sports Specialist of the television network and CBS' entry into televising football games; on football being a bigger production for television than baseball
01:34
Edgar Scherick on how he got the television rights to NCAA games
02:29
Edgar Scherick on ratings for early televised sports
00:58

Herbert S. Schlosser

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Herbert S. Schlosser on NBC's negotiations to broadcast the Olympics in 1964
05:07

Chet Simmons

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Chet Simmons on his first job in television working on closed circuit boxing matches, and on joining Sports Programs, Inc.
05:14
Chet Simmons on Sports Programs, Inc. becoming ABC Sports
07:04
Chet Simmons on the Sports Programs, Inc. affiliation with ABC Sports, and on the state of network sports programming in the early '60s
03:25
Chet Simmons on how equipped arenas and stadiums were in the '60s and '70s for television
03:28
Chet Simmons on becoming director of programming for NBC Sports
04:40
Chet Simmons on the creation and format of ABC's Wide World of Sports
09:47
Chet Simmons on how NBC Sports compared to ABC Sports at the time circa 1964, and on losing the rights to NCAA Basketball
05:23
Chet Simmons on the sporting events NBC covered during his tenure, the profitability of NBC Sports, and on being named president of the division in 1979
06:33
Chet Simmons on sporting events ESPN covered that weren't previously done, and various other events ESPN covered
05:15
Chet Simmons on his most memorable moments at ESPN
01:39
Chet Simmons on ESPN's role in the creation of the sports megastar, and on the legacy of ESPN
02:31
Chet Simmons on how sports have changed over the years, and on the then-future of sports broadcasting
03:14

Garry Simpson

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Garry Simpson on covering the Joe Louis- Billy Conn fight in NY and Rocky Graziano's fights
02:03
Garry Simpson on covering Jackie Robinson's first televised game
01:39
Garry Simpson on how he called the shots for sports
02:04

Ira Skutch

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Ira Skutch briefly on the camera placement for the boxing series The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
01:43

Herbert F. Solow

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Herbert F. Solow on selling the World Series to Japan
02:08

Ted Turner

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Ted Turner on acquiring the Atlanta Braves games for WTCG and trying to get people to buy a UHF antenna
00:38
Ted Turner on buying the Atlanta Braves
05:29

Tony Verna

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Tony Verna on covering The 1960 Rome Olympics
03:31
Tony Verna on creating the instant replay for the Army/Navy football game in December of 1963
02:38
Tony Verna on inventing the instant replay and some of its early uses
29:00
Tony Verna on directing the "Ice Bowl"; on dealing with live television disasters and censorship issues; on directing various Super Bowl broadcasts and the advent of color television
14:52
Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978; on working with the NFL; on directing various other sports events for television
13:39
Tony Verna on directing the 1984 Summer Olympics and athletes promoting sponsorship
03:51
Tony Verna on directing winter sports for television and dealing with injuries on television
04:45
Tony Verna on directing television coverage of boxing
02:05

James Wall

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James Wall on stage-managing many years of the U.S. Tennis Open 
03:45

David L. Wolper

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David L. Wolper on producing the 1984 summer Olympics opening ceremonies
12:22

Jeff Zucker

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Jeff Zucker on working as a Researcher for ABC during the 1984 Olympics
03:12
Jeff Zucker on working as a Researcher for NBC during the 1988 Olympics
03:00
Jeff Zucker on the XFL
01:28