For 15 long years, the Indianapolis 500 was the most difficult telecast presented by ABC Sports. Jim McKay, the announcer, says that and so does network director Larry Kamm, and both can readily ...

Taking over ABC Sports with the power it has, after the leadership it has had, is an awkward position to be in –especially when the rules are changing. But it`s also a tremendous position to be ...

As president of ABC Sports from 1968 to 1986, Arledge introduced several highly successful programs, including “Monday Night Football” and “Wide World of Sports. ...

At ABC Sports, where he served as president from 1968 to 1986, Arledge created two of television’s most durable sports franchises, “Monday Night Football” and “Wide World of Sports,” and ...

ABC televised a movie about Nanticoke’s Pete Gray, the only one-armed player ever in Major League Baseball, in 1986. Nanticoke’s Pete Gray, who was famous for playing in the major leagues ...

ABC Sports has exercised its options to keep Miller, ... The only worse rating was for a telecast opposite Game 7 of the 1986 World Series.

McKay was the first sportscaster to win an Emmy Award. He won 12, the last in 1988. ABC calculated that McKay travelled the equivalent of about seven million kilometres to work events.

The event was nothing new — the first Penn Relays was in 1895 — but the program was, and for the next 36-plus years ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” would profoundly change how sports ...