"ABC's Silver Anniversary" - Wide World of Sports (1978)

Keith Jackson remembers some of the moments ABC brought to America through their Wide World of Sports program. Later, Howard Cosell remembers some of the athletes covered by the network particularly Muhammed Ali.

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[joebradio]

Whoa Nelly !!!

[harveybullocks1281]

ESPN would not exist if it wasn't for wide world of sports.

[MovieAndSports2012]

@harveybullocks1281 then espn on abc whould not be real

[Aspergian]

@Stratman78 An instrumental version of "The Way We Were."

[altfactor]

The "25th anniversary" refers to United Paramount Theatres' purchase of ABC in 1953.

ABC was actually born ten years before that, when NBC was forced to spin-off one of it's two radio networks (either the "Red" or "Blue") to comply with an antitrust ruling.

NBC sold-off the "Blue", the weaker of the two, and it was renamed the American Broadcasting Company.

[altfactor]

I believe Jim McKay's original opening narration for "Wide World" lasted only a few weeks.

McKay and producer Roone Arledge came up with a new narration some weeks into the show's run.

If "Wide World" were still on today, the ski jumper for the "agony of defeat" may have just been replaced by the crash that cost J.R. Hildebrand a victory in the 2011 Indianapolis 500.

[TheDarkwingj]

At Midnight Before the Royal Wedding ESPN Classic Is Going to broadcast the first wide world of sports from 1961 on friday

[notredamehesamighty]

As a kid, Wide World of Sports opened my eyes to the fact that sports wasn't just Little League Baseball and the NFL. There were other countries, other cultures and sometimes what they did was kind of interesting. Many foreign sports were odd and weird, but I came to know some of the Russian weightlifters by name (can't remember 'em now), I began to appreciate more obscure sports like barrel jumping from Europe and home-grown USA sports such as log rolling. As a kid, WWoS opened my eyes.

[dimmerm]

testing

[midnightcaller200]

This is /was much better than ESPN

[5kdamian]

@ltlieu61 it was ABC's Silver Anniversary, not Wide World of Sports. ABC began as a network in 1953.

[dcbandnerd]

@ltlieu61 For ABC as a network.