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ABC's Wide World of Sports is an American sports anthology television program that aired on ABC from April 29, 1961, to 1997, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Jim McKay , with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be used for general sports programs on the network until 2006.
A film crew from Wide World of Sports was recording the event in which Bogataj crashed. The show featured an opening narration by host Jim McKay over a montage of sports clips, and co-ordinating producer Dennis Lewin inserted the footage of the crash to coincide with the words "...and the agony of defeat."
McKay was best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998). His introduction for that program has passed into American pop culture, in which viewers were reminded of the show's mission ("Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports") and what lay ahead ("the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat").
Wide World of Sports was the first U.S. television program to air coverage of – among events – Wimbledon (1961), the Indianapolis 500 (highlights starting in 1961; a longer-form version in 1965), the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (1962), the Daytona 500 (1962), the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1962), the Monaco Grand Prix (1962 ...
Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His compositions include the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show Love, American Style; the theme song for the late 1970s ABC series The Love Boat; and the dramatic theme music to ABC's Wide World of Sports [1] and the original Monday Night Football; as ...
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition… this is ABC's Wide World of Sports! Ross wrote for song parodist Allan Sherman, and then co-wrote with Arbogast an album of parody songs titled My Son, the Copycat (as Stan Ross). [4]
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Wide World of Sports – Charles Fox; Wild Kratts ("Gonna Go Wild Kratts") – Sterling Jarvis; Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa – Billy Dean and Verlon Thompson; The Wild Wild West – Richard Markowitz; Will & Grace – Jonathan Wolff; Wings ("Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959, Rondo: Allegretto") – Franz Schubert; WIOU – Gary Chang