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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

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

Leonard H. Goldenson

Leonard 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

Jim McKay

Jim McKay on the new television medium: seeing a boxing match on TV for the first time

01:14

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

Dick Van Patten

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

01:02

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

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

02:21

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

02:03

Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978

02:07

Tony Verna on directing hockey

03:10

Tony Verna on directing basketball

00:47

Tony Verna on directing various Super Bowls

04:04

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

Ben Wolf

Ben Wolf on shooting sporting events

03:32

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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