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

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

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

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

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

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

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    Curt Gowdy on covering 16 World Series

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    Berle Adams

    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

    Ray Aghayan on designing for the 1984 Olympics

    04:24

    Steve Allen

    Steve Allen on announcing wrestling for ABC television

    03:22

    Bob Banner

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

    05:25

    Ted Bergmann

    Ted Bergmann on the importance of sports to DuMont

    10:48

    Frank Biondo

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

    00:56

    George Bodenheimer

    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

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    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

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

    07:27

    Frances Buss Buch

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

    04:09

    Ken Burns

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

    06:55

    Robert Caminiti

    Robert Caminiti on working on Wimbledon for NBC Sports

    04:05

    Bill Conti

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

    05:54

    Bob Costas

    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

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

    05:35

    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

    09:33

    Bob Doyle

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Dennis Franz on working on Bay City Blues

    02:50

    Michael Fuchs

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

    05:32

    Frank Gifford

    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

    Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football

    01:40

    Curt Gowdy

    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

    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 the evolution of sports broadcasting

    01:42

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

    04:10

    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

    Herb Granath

    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

    Hal Gurnee on early sports broadcasts on television

    01:24

    Dwight Hemion

    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

    Danette Herman on talent coordinating for three Olympics

    05:20

    Lee Holdridge

    Lee Holdridge on scoring films about the Olympics

    04:52

    Stanley Hubbard

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

    01:55

    Kay Koplovitz

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

    01:52

    Gene LeBell

    Gene LeBell on early televised wrestling and boxing matches

    03:02

    Stewart MacGregory

    Stewart MacGregory on being unit manager for the 1966 World Series

    02:36

    Jim McKay

    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

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

    07:26

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

    04:24

    Al Michales on his sports broadcasts from Hawaii

    00:48

    Al Michales on announcing for Cincinnati Reds baseball broadcasts

    03:57

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

    06:07

    Al Michaels on his years announcing for the San Francisco Giants

    02:58

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

    12:12

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

    04:41

    Al Michaels on announcing a boxing match

    01:14

    Al Michaels on covering horse racing

    02:17

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

    03:14

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

    09:55

    Al Michaels on announcing for auto racing

    00:55

    Al Michaels on announcing for golf

    01:02

    Al Michaels on announcing for basketball

    01:14

    Sig Mickelson

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

    09:58

    Walter C. Miller

    Walter C. Miller on doing some sports directing for NBC

    02:11

    Don Mischer

    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

    Thomas W. Moore on ABC's early sports programming

    40:46

    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

    E. Roger Muir on directing a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game

    03:49

    Nicolas Noxon

    Nicolas Noxon on the syndicated series, Sports Illustrated

    03:19

    Don Ohlmeyer

    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

    Don Pardo on announcing a baseball game in 1946 on television

    23:57

    Don Pike

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

    01:50

    Carroll Pratt

    Carroll Pratt on providing sports sound effects

    01:10

    Ward Quaal

    Ward Quaal on early sports programming at WGN

    04:50

    Ed Resnick

    Ed Resnick on shooting the Rose Bowl for KTLA

    03:01

    Hank Rieger

    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

    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

    Howard Rosenberg on television sports

    03:34

    Edgar J. Scherick

    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 the creation of ABC's Wide World of Sports

    04:00

    Edgar Scherick on ratings for early televised sports

    00:58

    Herbert S. Schlosser

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

    05:07

    Chet Simmons

    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

    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

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

    01:43

    Herbert F. Solow

    Herbert F. Solow on selling the World Series to Japan

    02:08

    Ted Turner

    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

    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

    15:21

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

    14:37

    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

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

    03:45

    David L. Wolper

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

    12:22

    Jeff Zucker

    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

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