Sports

Berle Adams on signing Arnold Palmer as a client and creating the show Challenge Golf

Berle Adams on selling professional wrestling to local Los Angeles television stations

Berle Adams on signing the American Football League as an MCA client

Ray Aghayan on designing for the 1984 Olympics

Steve Allen on announcing wrestling for ABC television

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

Ted Bergmann on the importance of sports to DuMont

Gail Berman on the importance of football for Fox

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

George Bodenheimer on ESPN's business model

George Bodenheimer on the culture of ESPN

George Bodenheimer on Chet Simmons' televising the NFL draft on ESPN

George Bodenheimer on televising the NCAA Basketball Tournament

George Bodenheimer on ESPN televising the America's Cup sailing event for the first time in 1987

George Bodenheimer on the reasoning behind launching ESPN2

George Bodenheimer on the launch of the ESPY Awards

George Bodenheimer on Monday Night Football and its legacy for ESPN since moving there from ABC

George Bodenheimer on ESPN's flagship program, SportsCenter

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

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

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

Robert Caminiti on working on Wimbledon for NBC Sports

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

Bob Costas on how he prepares for a sportscast; on how he calls a game

Bob Costas on the first time he served as prime-time host of the Olympics - 1992 in Barcelona; on how he approaches hosting

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

Bob Costas on the 2000 Sydney Olympics

Bob Costas on the 2004 Athens Olympics

Bob Costas on the response he gets to his Olympic coverage and on the dynamics of international sports

Bob Costas on hosting On the Record with Bob Costas

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

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

Bob Doyle on directing some of ABC's earliest programming, including sporting events

Bob Doyle on directing NFL Football games and the Metropolitan Opera

Bob Doyle on becoming ABC's director of all remote events, including sports events

Dick Ebersol on Roone Arledge assembling his broadcast team at ABC Sports

Dick Ebersol on the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France

Dick Ebersol on the 1972 Munich Olympics

Dick Ebersol on how Muhammed Ali came to be involved with the Atlanta Olympics

Dick Ebersol on making clear to his employees at NBC that sports was still a passion

Dick Ebersol on the Beijing Olympics  

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

Dick Enberg on calling boxing matches early in his career for KTLA

Dick Enberg on calling horse races early in his career

Dick Enberg on doing play-by-play for the Los Angeles Rams

Dick Enberg on doing play-by-play for UCLA football

Dick Enberg on what he is imparting to the listener when announcing play-by-play for baseball

Dick Enberg on calling a game by himself as opposed to working with others in the announcing booth

Dick Enberg on his broadcasting partner of several years, Don Drysdale 

Dick Enberg on joining NBC Sports in 1975 due to his calling of syndicated basketball games

Dick Enberg on the state of NBC Sports when he joined as opposed to the other networks

Dick Enberg on his partners in announcing NCAA basketball for NBC

Dick Enberg on announcing football games with Merlin Olsen on NBC

Dick Enberg on calling tennis matches, including Wimbledon, for NBC

Dick Enberg on calling the Olympics

Dick Enberg on calling the 1982 World Series  and his disappointment over not being NBC's lead announcer for the 1983 World Series

Dick Enberg on calling games for the San Diego Padres 

Dick Enberg on the challenges of calling golf matches

Dick Enberg on announcing for the 1988 Olympics  in Seoul, South Korea and various other Olympics

Dick Enberg on covering tennis for ESPN in 2004

Ray Forrest on working on an early TV broadcast of a baseball game; on horse races and hockey games

Ray Forrest on NBC newscaster Paul Alley wanting to do color commentary for a boxing game

Ray Forrest on the difficulties of parking the remote TV trucks when out on assignments

Ray Forrest on introducing a Joe Louis fight on The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

Dennis Franz on working on Bay City Blues

Michael Fuchs on HBO Sports programming and HBO post-his departure

Frank Gifford on his role on Monday Night Football and his rapport with his co-stars

Frank Gifford on securing an exclusive pre-game interview for CBS with Vince Lombardi before the first Super Bowl in 1967

Frank Gifford on being part of the CBS broadcast team for the first Super Bowl in 1967

Frank Gifford on how human interest sports reporting affected broadcasting for Monday Night Football

Frank Gifford on the changes made to the Monday Night Football broadcast team; on memorable moments and his departure from the show

Frank Gifford on working on Wide World of Sports and memories of the terrorist attack in Munich at the 1972 Olympics

Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football

Curt Gowdy on Yankee player Joe DiMaggio when he first started announcing for the Yankees

Curt Gowdy on his big break as announcer for the New York Yankees

Curt Gowdy on Ted Willams last game

Curt Gowdy on Joe DiMaggio's comeback at the '49 World Series

Sportscaster Curt Gowdy on the first Super Bowl, broadcast by both NBC and CBS

Sportscaster Curt Gowdy on the some of the Super Bowl games he covered

Curt Gowdy on the evolution of sports broadcasting

Curt Gowdy on the 1964 and 1968 Olympic games and the importance of satellite feeds

Curt Gowdy on covering 16 World Series

Curt Gowdy on having one of the most recognizable voices in all of broadcasting

Herb Granath on ABC being the network of the Olympics

Herb Granath on the "all marketing program" he started with Monday Night Football and the success of the program

Herb Granath on his recollections of ABC's Wide World of Sports

Herb Granath on working on Monday Night Football and creating a special sales unit focused on selling sports programming

Herb Granath on the birth of ESPN

Herb Granath on the growth of ESPN and the launch of ESPN 2

Hal Gurnee on early sports broadcasts on television

Dwight Hemion on his first jobs, assistant directing and directing sports telecasts for ABC

Dwight Hemion on directing early live boxing telecasts and on how he came to direct The Steve Allen Show and Tonight

Danette Herman on talent coordinating for three Olympics

Lee Holdridge on scoring films about the Olympics

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

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

Gene LeBell on early televised wrestling and boxing matches

Alan J. Levi on the kinds of cameras he used for sports location shoots

Alan J. Levi on contributing to the coverage of the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, including  "up close and personal" features and final events

Alan J. Levi on working on ABC's Wide World of Sports

Stewart MacGregory on being unit manager for the 1966 World Series

Jim McKay on hosting the Summer Olympics on CBS, which initially were ad-libbed

Jim McKay on ABC's Wide World of Sports

Jim McKay on co-hosting the Olympics

Jim McKay on the transformative role of television in sports history and coverage

Jim McKay on what has changed most in television and sports tv, and among the athletes themselves

Jim McKay on covering the Olympics

Jim McKay on ABC's Wide World of Sports

Al Michales on doing some PR work for the Lakers, and on announcer Chick Hearn

Al Michales on announcing local baseball and football games on the Hawaii Islands

Al Michales on his sports broadcasts from Hawaii

Al Michales on announcing for Cincinnati Reds baseball broadcasts

Al Michaels on covering the 1972 World Series on NBC between the Oakland A's and the Cincinnati Reds

Al Michaels on his years announcing for the San Francisco Giants

Al Michaels on being hired by ABC Sports to announce for various events including ABC's Wide World of Sports

Al Michaels on how he came up with "Do you believe in miracles?" when covering the 1980 Olympics

Al Michaels on announcing a boxing match

Al Michaels on covering horse racing

Al Michales on becoming the play-by-play sportscaster on Monday Night Football

Al Michaels on reporting the earthquake during the 1989 World Series Game 3 in San Francisco

Al Michaels on announcing for auto racing

Al Michaels on announcing for golf

Al Michaels on announcing for basketball

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

Walter C. Miller on doing some sports directing for NBC

Don Mischer on the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Michael Jackson, and how he was asked to produce it

Don Mischer on Super Bowl 49 - how Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" led him back to the halftime show

Don Mischer on producing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

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

Thomas W. Moore on various sports shows he programmed at ABC

Thomas W. Moore on ABC brining various sports like golf to television

E. Roger Muir on directing a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game

Nicolas Noxon on the syndicated series, Sports Illustrated

Don Ohlmeyer on becoming an associate director on The 1968 Olympics

Don Ohlmeyer on the format of Wide World of Sports  and how it evolved

Don Ohlmeyer on Monday Night Football  

Don Ohlmeyer on Jim McKay's amazing job covering the 1972 Munich Olympics

Don Ohlmeyer on going back to Monday Night Football

Don Pardo on announcing a baseball game in 1946 on television

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

Carroll Pratt on providing sports sound effects

Ward Quaal on early sports programming at WGN

Ed Resnick on shooting the Rose Bowl for KTLA

Hank Rieger on "the Heidi incident" -- when NBC aired the beginning of Heidi instead of the end of a football game

Hank Rieger on doing publicity for the 1984 Olympics and challenges he faced covering the Olympics

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)

Howard Rosenberg on television sports

Edgar Scherick on putting together Baseball Game of the Week and packaging other sports shows while at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample

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

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

Edgar Scherick on how he got the television rights to NCAA games

Edgar Scherick on the creation of ABC's Wide World of Sports

Edgar Scherick on ratings for early televised sports

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

Chet Simmons on his first job in television working on closed circuit boxing matches, and on joining Sports Programs, Inc.

Chet Simmons on Sports Programs, Inc. becoming ABC Sports

Chet Simmons on the Sports Programs, Inc. affiliation with ABC Sports, and on the state of network sports programming in the early '60s

Chet Simmons on how equipped arenas and stadiums were in the '60s and '70s for television

Chet Simmons on becoming director of programming for NBC Sports

Chet Simmons on the creation and format of ABC's Wide World of Sports

Chet Simmons on how NBC Sports compared to ABC Sports at the time circa 1964, and on losing the rights to NCAA Basketball

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

Chet Simmons on sporting events ESPN covered that weren't previously done, and various other events ESPN covered

Chet Simmons on his most memorable moments at ESPN

Chet Simmons on ESPN's role in the creation of the sports megastar, and on the legacy of ESPN

Chet Simmons on how sports have changed over the years, and on the then-future of sports broadcasting

Garry Simpson on covering the Joe Louis- Billy Conn fight in NY and Rocky Graziano's fights

Garry Simpson on covering Jackie Robinson's first televised game

Garry Simpson on how he called the shots for sports

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

Herbert F. Solow on selling the World Series to Japan

Ted Turner on acquiring the Atlanta Braves games for WTCG and trying to get people to buy a UHF antenna

Ted Turner on buying the Atlanta Braves

Tony Verna on covering The 1960 Rome Olympics

Tony Verna on creating the instant replay for the Army/Navy football game in December of 1963

Tony Verna on inventing the instant replay and some of its early uses

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

Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978; on working with the NFL; on directing various other sports events for television

Tony Verna on directing the 1984 Summer Olympics and athletes promoting sponsorship

Tony Verna on directing winter sports for television and dealing with injuries on television

Tony Verna on directing television coverage of boxing

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

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

Jeff Zucker on working as a Researcher for ABC during the 1984 Olympics

Jeff Zucker on working as a Researcher for NBC during the 1988 Olympics

Jeff Zucker on the XFL