Sports Broadcaster Jim Mckay Again of Defeat
| Wide Earth of Sports | |
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 Wide World of Sports logo | |
| Genre | Sports anthology series |
| Created by | Edgar Scherick |
| Presented by |
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| State of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 37 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Roone Arledge |
| Camera setup | Multi-photographic camera |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Production company | ABC Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | Apr 29, 1961 (1961-04-29) – January 3, 1998 (1998-01-03) |
ABC's Wide World of Sports was an American sports anthology goggle box programme that aired on the American Broadcasting Visitor (ABC) from April 29, 1961 to January 3, 1998, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay, with a succession of co-hosts first in 1987, the title continued to be used for general sports programs on the network until 2006. In 2007, Wide World of Sports was named past Time on its list of the 100 best tv programs of all time.
Weekend sports news updates on sister radio network ABC Sports Radio, operated by Cumulus Media Networks, continue to be branded under the similar title ABC's World of Sports. The plan also lent its name to an athletic facility at Walt Disney Earth, the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex – which was originally known as Disney'southward Wide World of Sports Complex from its opening in 1997 (one year after The Walt Disney Company acquired ABC and an 80% stake in ESPN) – until 2010.
History [edit]
Origins [edit]
Wide Earth of Sports was the cosmos of Edgar Scherick through his company, Sports Programs, Inc. Later on selling his company to ABC, he hired a young Roone Arledge to produce the show.
The series' Apr 29, 1961 debut telecast featured both the Penn and Drake Relays. Jim McKay (who hosted the programme for most of its history) and Jesse Abramson, the rails and field writer for the New York Herald Tribune, broadcast from Franklin Field with Bob Richards as the field reporter. Jim Simpson chosen the action from Drake Stadium with Bill Flemming working the field.[1]
During its initial flavour in the spring and summertime of 1961, Wide Earth of Sports was initially broadcast from 5 p.grand. to 7 p.m. Eastern Fourth dimension on Saturdays. Commencement in 1962, it was pushed to 5 to half-dozen:thirty pm, and subsequently to 4:thirty to half-dozen pm. Eastern Fourth dimension to allow ABC affiliates in the Eastern and Fundamental Time Zones to comport local early-evening newscasts.
Successful spin-offs [edit]
In 1961, Wide Earth of Sports covered a bowling event in which Roy Lown trounce Pat Patterson. The broadcast was and then successful that in 1962, ABC Sports began covering the Professional Bowlers Tour.
In 1964, Wide World of Sports covered the Oklahoma Rattlesnake Hunt championships; the following year, ABC premiered outdoor program The American Sportsman, which remained on the network for nearly xx years.
In 1973, the Superstars was commencement televised as a segment on Wide World of Sports; the following yr, the Superstars debuted as a weekly wintertime series that lasted for 10 years.
Athlete of the Year [edit]
In 1963, ABC Sports producers began selecting the Athlete of the Year. Its first winner was track and field star Jim Beatty for being the first to run a sub-4-minute mile indoors. Through the years, this award was won by such now legendary athletes of Muhammad Ali, Jim Ryun, Lance Armstrong, Mario Andretti, Dennis Conner, Wayne Gretzky, Carl Lewis and Tiger Woods. The award was discontinued in 2001.
The end of Wide World of Sports [edit]
In afterward years, with the ascension of cablevision tv set offering more outlets for sports programming, Wide Earth of Sports lost many of the events that had been staples of the program for many years (many, although not all, of them concluded up on ESPN, a sis network to ABC for nigh of its existence). Ultimately, on January 3, 1998, Jim McKay announced that Wide World of Sports, in its traditional anthology series, had been canceled after a 37-year run. The Broad World of Sports name remained in use later as an umbrella title for ABC'south weekend sports programming.
In August 2006, ABC Sports came under the oversight of ESPN, under the relaunched banner name ESPN on ABC. The Broad Earth of Sports title continues to occasionally be revived for Saturday afternoon sports programming on ABC; information technology was used during the 140th Belmont Stakes as a tribute to Jim McKay post-obit his death in June 2008, and in 2017 it was used for the revival of the Battle of the Network Stars. Well-nigh of ABC's sports programming since Wide World of Sports ended as a program has been displaced from ABC and moved to ESPN; the cablevision network began producing its ain anthology series on Saturday afternoons in 2010, ESPN Sports Saturday, which consists of documentaries originally featured on ESPN's E:sixty and 30 for thirty programs, and a modified version of the ESPN interactive serial SportsNation, titled Winners Bracket.
Format [edit]
Sports featured on Wide World of Sports [edit]
Wide World of Sports was intended to exist a fill-in show for a single summertime flavour, until the start of fall sports seasons, simply became unexpectedly popular. The goal of the program was to showcase sports from around the world that were seldom, if e'er, broadcast on American boob tube. It originally ran for 2 hours on Saturday afternoons, but was subsequently reduced to ninety minutes.
Usually, "Wide World" featured 2 or three events per show. These included many types non previously seen on American television, such as hurling, rodeo, curling, jai-alai, firefighter's competitions, wrist wrestling, powerlifting, surfing, logger sports, demolition derby, slow pitch softball, barrel jumping, and badminton. NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup racing was a Wide Earth of Sports staple until the late 1980s, when it became a regularly scheduled sporting event on the network. Traditional Olympic sports such as figure skating, skiing, gymnastics and track and field competitions were also regular features of the testify. Another memorable regular feature in the 1960s and 1970s was Mexican cliff diving. The lone national television circulate of the Continental Football League was a Wide World of Sports broadcast of the 1966 championship game; ABC paid the league $500 for a rights fee, a minuscule sum by professional person football standards.
Firsts [edit]
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'southward Basketball Championship (1962), the Daytona 500 (1962), the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1962), the first color broadcast of the Monaco Grand Prix (1967), the Little League World Series (1961), The British Open Golf Tournament (1961), the X-Games (1994) and the Grey Cup (1962).
Introduction [edit]
The program'southward introductory sequence was accompanied past a stirring, flippant musical fanfare (composed by Charles Fox), gear up over a montage of sports clips and accompanying narration written by Stanley Ralph Ross and voiced by McKay:
Spanning the globe to bring yous the constant variety of sport... the thrill of victory... and the desperation of defeat... the human drama of athletic competition... This is ABC's Wide Earth of Sports!
"The thrill of victory ... and the agony of defeat" [edit]
The melodramatic introduction became a national catchphrase that is often heard to this mean solar day. While "the thrill of victory" had several symbols over the decades, ski jumper Vinko Bogataj, whose dreadful misjump and crash during a competition on March 21, 1970 was featured from the early 1970s onward heard over the judgement "...and the agony of defeat", became a hard-luck hero of sorts, and an affectionate icon for stunning failure. Previously, the footage played with that phrase was that of some other ski jumper who made a long, almost successful jump, but whose skis lost vertical alignment shortly earlier landing, leading to a crash.
Later in the 1990s, an additional clip was added to the "desperation of defeat" sequence after Bogataj's accident: footage of a crash by Alessandro Zampedri, Roberto Guerrero and Eliseo Salazar during the 1996 Indianapolis 500 showed a car flipping upwardly into the catch fence. The "oh no!" commentary that accompanies information technology, however, is dubbed from commentary by Benny Parsons of Steve Grissom'due south crash in the 1997 Primestar 500 (office of the NASCAR Winston Loving cup series). Bogataj'southward mishap is also commemorated in Rich Hall'south book Sniglets as "agonosis", which is defined as "the syndrome of tuning in on Broad Earth of Sports every weekend just to watch the skier rack himself."
Announcers [edit]
Hosts [edit]
- Jim McKay (1961–1998)
- Becky Dixon (1987–1988)[2]
- Frank Gifford (1987–1993)[ii]
- Julie Moran (1994–1995)[3] [ amend source needed ]
- John Saunders (1995–1996)
- Robin Roberts (1996–1998)[4]
Issue announcers [edit]
- Play-by-play
- Tim Brant
- Howard Cosell
- Becky Dixon
- Chris Economaki
- Bill Flemming
- Terry Gannon
- Frank Gifford
- Brusk Gowdy
- Keith Jackson
- Jim Lampley
- Jim McKay
- Al Michaels
- Julie Moran
- Brent Musburger
- Paul Page
- Bud Palmer
- Jerry Punch
- Robin Roberts
- John Saunders
- Chris Schenkel
- Al Trautwig
- Steve Zabriskie
- Reporters
- Chris Economaki
- Pecker Flemming
- Keith Jackson
- Jim Lampley
- David Letterman
- Stirling Moss
- Sam Posey
- Jerry Punch
- Jody Scheckter
- O. J. Simpson
- Lynn Swann
- Al Trautwig
- Lesley Visser
- Rodger Ward
- John Watson
- Jack Whitaker
- Analysts
- Donnie Allison
- Chris Economaki
- Phil Hill
- Ned Jarrett
- Fred Lorenzen
- Mickey Mantle
- Cheryl Miller
- Don Meredith
- Stirling Moss
- Sam Posey
- Neb Russell
- Jackie Stewart
- Rodger Ward
International versions [edit]
Canadian version [edit]
From September 19, 1964 until the late 1980s, a Canadian version was aired by the CTV Television set Network. Licensed by ABC, the CTV circulate included a mix of content from the American evidence, and segments produced by CTV and its affiliates.
Australian version [edit]
In Australia, the 9 Network produced its own version from 1981 to 1999 and from 2008 to 2016, Nine's Wide Globe of Sports, which has since get the extensive make for all of Nine'south sport coverage. It was also originally a sports anthology series, but too featured professional person sporting competitions. Information technology, along with Nine's cricket coverage, besides inspired a series of parodies, released equally sound albums past Billy Birmingham, under the nom-de-plum of The 12th Man.
Mexican version [edit]
A programme partly inspired by the U.Due south. version, known as DeporTV, El Ancho Mundo del Deporte (DeporTV, the Broad World of Sports) debuted on Canal 13, at the time the Mexican regime'due south public television channel (which later became Imevisión) on Jan 6, 1974. The program continues to air on Imevisión's successor Tv Azteca, becoming one of the longest-running programs in the country. It was hosted by José Ramón Fernández from its inception until 2006, and is currently hosted by Antonio Rosique, Luis García Postigo and Christian Martinolli. The program "El Ancho Mundo del Deporte" was aired in Monterrey Mexico in the state regime endemic Canal 28 from 1985 to 1991. This was possible in an substitution with Imevisión since the NFL national broadcast in United mexican states for that national network was originated in Monterrey (Fernando Von Rossum Garza and Jose "Pepe" Espinoza). The hosts in the Monterrey version of "El Ancho Mundo del Deporte" were Javier Hector Gutierrez, Rubén Pizarro, Alejandro Campos, Martha Vigil and Carlos Gutierrez.
See also [edit]
- List of longest-running Us television serial
References [edit]
- ^ "50th Anniversary of Wide World of Sports Celebrated". ESPN MediaZone. April 21, 2011. Information about the broadcasters obtained directly from the original telecast.
- ^ a b Larry Stewart (January 9, 1987). "Network Bosses Have High Praise for No. 1 Teams". Los Angeles Times. Times Mirror Company.
- ^ "Search Results". Google.
- ^ "Broad World of Sports". Television.com.
External links [edit]
- Wide World of Sports at IMDb
- Jump The Shark – Wide World of Sports
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_World_of_Sports_(American_TV_program)
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