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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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“If you put something on the air today and there's an attraction, people will find it. And they still find football in astonishing numbers." - Frank Gifford, Sportscaster

Interviewees discuss memorable moments in televised sports.

Highlights

Frank Gifford on bloopers from the broadcast booth

00:37

Curt Gowdy on Ted Willams last game

02:58

Don Ohlmeyer on pushing the industry forward on Monday Night Football

11:52

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

06:55

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

05:23

Jim McKay on the Israeli hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics

20:52

Who talked about this topic

Berle Adams

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

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

02:19

Ted Bergmann

Ted Bergmann on the importance of sports to DuMont

10:48

Ted Bergmann on arrangements to televise boxing for DuMont

02:10

Ted Bergmann on arrangements to televise football for DuMont

09:46

Linda Bell Blue

Linda Bell Blue on covering the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

01:38

George Bodenheimer

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 acquiring a contract with the NFL

00:52

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

Ken Burns

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

06:35

Bob Costas

Bob Costas on covering the 1986 World Series when the Red Sox almost beat the curse, and the Red Sox finally beating it in 2004

02:35

Bob Costas on covering the 1982 World Series and the 1984 "Sandberg game"

01:19

Bob Costas on Kirk Gibson hitting the home-run off Dennis Eckersley in the 1988 World Series

01:36

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

05:23

Bob Costas on covering the Olympics and why it's so captivating; 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; on the dynamics of international sports

05:53

Bob Costas on decisions Dick Ebersol has to make as producer of The Olympics

01:11

Bob Costas on hosting On the Record with Bob Costas

04:48

Bob Costas on how his style affects telling the story of sports

01:46

Bob Costas on how the business of televised sports has changed

01:29

Frank Gifford

Frank Gifford on first meeting Howard Cosell

00:52

Frank Gifford on his transition to CBS Sports and working on CBS Radio

04:02

Frank Gifford on hosting the NFL Pre-game show in 1963, that became a network show

01:02

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

04:13

Frank Gifford on how Roone Arledge changed sports broadcasting with his coverage of the Olympics

01:37

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

04:00

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

04:13

Leonard H. Goldenson

Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football

01:40

Julian Goodman

Julian Goodman on NBC interrupting a Jets football game to broadcast "Heidi"

02:58

Julian Goodman on getting the AFL contract for NBC

01:51

Curt Gowdy

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

00:52

Curt Gowdy on how World Series differ from All-Star games

02:16

Curt Gowdy on preparing to cover hockey for the Olympics

02:10

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

19:34

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

17:53

Herb Granath on Jim McKay's coverage of the Munich Massacre

01:24

Earl Hamner, Jr.

Earl Hamner on working on the TV version of Heidi and the broadcast's memorable interruption of a football game

04:58

Kim Kimble

Kim Kimble on doing hair for performances at the Super Bowl halftime show by Shakira, Beyoncé, and Destiny's Child

01:43

Jim McKay

Jim McKay on the Israeli hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics

20:52

Al Michaels

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

22:16

Donald A. Morgan

Donald A. Morgan on working as a "marathon man" during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles

02:27

Michael Moye

Michael Moye on some people seeing racism where he does not

04:07

Don Ohlmeyer

Don Ohlmeyer on becoming an associate director on The 1968 Olympics

03:06

Don Pardo

Don Pardo on announcing a baseball game in 1946 on television

04:39

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

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

Ted Turner on the Atlanta Braves winning the World Series in 1995

01:37

Dick Van Patten

Dick Van Patten on the Eight Is Enough reunion movies beating the World Series in TV ratings

01:02

Tony Verna

Tony Verna on covering the 1960 Rome Olympics

03:31

Tony Verna on directing CBS's Baseball Game of the Week

03:33

Tony Verna on the advent of the post-game show

02:00

Tony Verna on directing Monday Night Football

02:44

Tony Verna on working with the NFL and Pete Rozelle on football broadcasts

01:31

Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978

01:08

Tony Verna on directing hockey

03:07

Tony Verna on directing basketball

00:43

Tony Verna on directing various Super Bowls

04:03

Tony Verna on directing television coverage of boxing

02:05

Tony Verna on directing winter sports for television

04:45

Tony Verna on directing The Goodwill Games

04:35

Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978

01:08

Ben Wolf

Ben Wolf on shooting sporting events

03:32

David L. Wolper

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

12:22

Jeff Zucker

Jeff Zucker on a pattern in his career of moving from sports coverage to wider news coverage

03:12

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

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