Sports describes Programs offering coverage of spectator games and events, and related topics.
About
"Sports, like everything else, is about the human beings involved. By now we've heard that so many times, it's cliche. But it wasn't at that time." - Jim McKay, Sports Announcer
Highlights

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

Al Michaels on announcing U.S. Ice Hockey team for the 1980 Winter Olympics

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

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

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

Curt Gowdy on covering 16 World Series
Who talked about this genre
Berle Adams
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
Ray Aghayan on designing for the 1984 Olympics
Steve Allen
Steve Allen on announcing wrestling for ABC television
Bob Banner
Bob Banner on directing televised boxing matches in Chicago early in his career
Ted Bergmann
Ted Bergmann on the importance of sports to DuMont
Frank Biondo
Frank Biondo on being a Chapman camera operator for hockey games at the old Madison Square Garden
George Bodenheimer
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
Garrett Brown on inventing the Skycam, often used for sporting events
Frances Buss Buch
Frances Buss Buch on directing sports events on early television (boxing, baseball)
Ken Burns
Ken Burns on his documentary series Baseball, and his career-long exploration of race in America
Robert Caminiti
Robert Caminiti on working on Wimbledon for NBC Sports
Bill Conti
Bill Conti on composing for sports programs and the New York City Marathon
Bob Costas
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
Robert Dickinson on working with producer/director Don Mischer on the Salt Lake City and Atlanta Olympics
Louis Dorfsman
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
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
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
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
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
Dennis Franz on working on Bay City Blues
Michael Fuchs
Michael Fuchs on HBO Sports programming and HBO post-his departure
Frank Gifford
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
Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football
Curt Gowdy
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
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
Hal Gurnee on early sports broadcasts on television
Dwight Hemion
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
Danette Herman on talent coordinating for three Olympics
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge on scoring films about the Olympics
Stanley Hubbard
Stanley Hubbard on KSTP's ratings in the '50s and wrestling on the station
Kay Koplovitz
Kay Koplovitz on how HBO's Thrilla from Manila changed television history
Gene LeBell
Gene LeBell on early televised wrestling and boxing matches
Stewart MacGregory
Stewart MacGregory on being unit manager for the 1966 World Series
Jim McKay
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 Michaels
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
Sig Mickelson on his role in the development of sports programming in the early years of CBS television
Walter C. Miller
Walter C. Miller on doing some sports directing for NBC
Don Mischer
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
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
E. Roger Muir on directing a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game
Nicolas Noxon
Nicolas Noxon on the syndicated series, Sports Illustrated
Don Ohlmeyer
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
Don Pardo on announcing a baseball game in 1946 on television
Don Pike
Don Pike on acting as technical director for various Super Bowl telecasts
Carroll Pratt
Carroll Pratt on providing sports sound effects
Ward Quaal
Ward Quaal on early sports programming at WGN
Ed Resnick
Ed Resnick on shooting the Rose Bowl for KTLA
Hank Rieger
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
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
Howard Rosenberg on television sports
Edgar J. Scherick
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
Herbert S. Schlosser on NBC's negotiations to broadcast the Olympics in 1964
Chet Simmons
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
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
Ira Skutch briefly on the camera placement for the boxing series The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
Herbert F. Solow
Herbert F. Solow on selling the World Series to Japan
Ted Turner
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
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
James Wall on stage-managing many years of the U.S. Tennis Open
David L. Wolper
David L. Wolper on producing the 1984 summer Olympics opening ceremonies
Jeff Zucker
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